Category: people

The first Indian actress to win an international award, she was a major star in Bengali film, and one of her Bollywood roles led to a major political controversy.

“In a career that began in the late 1950s, Mr. Abbado was known for the directness and musicality of his performances. He almost always conducted from memory, insisting that using the score meant that he did not know the work adequately.”

“A builder of large-scale assemblages in a wide range of materials — bronze, aluminum, plaster, wood, canvas, paint, found objects and, in the case of neon, light itself — Chryssa, whose work prefigured Minimalism and Pop Art, was considered a significant presence on the American art scene in the ’60s and ’70s.” She died Dec. 23 at age 79.

“Megan Ellison is Hollywood’s newest darling. She has been touted as the ‘new Harvey Weinstein’ for a couple of years now, but this week her status was confirmed: films she produced and financed were nominated for a staggering 17 Academy Awards.”

“‘That’s what’s great about being a writer,’ he remarks, out of the blue. ‘Every 10 years you become somebody else.'”

“I knew I couldn’t seek some false catharsis. The only ending I could put in my game was real life. Which is hard and unpredictable, but it’s where we live and what we have to work with.”

“I feel my job isn’t to be a dancing monkey and entertain people on television.”

“I post virtually everything I do on Twitter or Instagram. It’s a big art exhibition. Previously a few hundred, perhaps a few thousand people came to my exhibitions. Today I post a video and half a million people watch it.”

It seems the suggestions of bad faith on the part of a judge may have some merit.

Yes, really. He’s a missionary who thinks they should have been shown mercy rather than sent to a gulag.