Category: people

“And then [Gary] raises a glass to the fish: ‘Here’s to herring … It’s really kept Russia going all these years.’ I didn’t know we were going to keep going with the toasts. ‘Endless toasts,’ he says. ‘It’s so annoying, but it has to be done.'”

Hancock, who turns 74 in April, says his lectures will cover the practical lessons he has learned about the harmonious connection between “the essential values in jazz and the values of Buddhism”.

Presenting an award to Emma Thompson at the National Board of Review’s ceremony, Streep called Disney (among other things) “a gender bigot”.

The starchitect has been appointed to a lifetime seat in the upper house of Italy’s parliament.

“To say that Evgeny Morozov has gone out of his way to irritate powerful and influential people in the tech world doesn’t quite capture it. Doing so is his primary occupation.”

“To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information. The timbre of it, the shape of it, the length of it – there’s so much information in a laugh. A lot of times, you could play me just the laughs from my set and I could tell you, from the laugh, what the joke was. Because they match.”

“I realized that things that look like magic are often just many hours of invisible practice. Since then I’ve learned guitar, cello, singing, card tricks, juggling, unicycling, origami, public speaking and design. There’s something really rewarding about not knowing how to do something, practicing like crazy, and then being able to do it.”

Sadly, Ron Athey’s career remains emblematic of a perverse trend: another American artist exiled because of the fierceness of his or her talent.

“She had lost leases before during her long life in independent theater. This time was different. ‘I was crying, screaming,’ she said, about leaving her neighborhood. ‘They had to carry me to the car.'”

Juanita Moore, who died Dec. 31 at age 99, “fell through the cracks of a Hollywood system with little to offer a black actress besides small parts as maids and nannies.”