Category: people

In The Railway Man, the Oscar-winning actress portrays the wife of Eric Lomax, who wrote a best-selling memoir of his time as a prisoner-of-war in a World War II Japanese labor camp in Thailand. In a three-way phone interview, Kidman and Lomax talk about getting to know each other and what they have in common.

Wilson served as chairman of the New York City Opera and on the boards of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Opera. He donated more than $500 million to charities.

“I guess I’m able to tap into some undealt-with anger a lot. My innate rage.”

“I have been threatened that if I return to Hungary, they will cut off both of my hands. I don’t want to risk physical and mental assault.”

“Tolokonnikova’s father Andrei told Reuters on Thursday that the planned release of the band members was clearly a public-relations move ahead of the Olympics.”

“Known for his good humor, smart wardrobe and old school stunts, he told Variety in 1992 — past most people’s retirement age — that he was opening ’round-the-clock’ offices.”

“Mr. Vizzini wrote openly about his struggles with depression and spoke about it with student groups. One of his most celebrated novels, ‘It’s Kind of a Funny Story,’ published in 2006, is based on the five days he spent in the psychiatric ward of a Brooklyn hospital in 2004.”

“The 25-year-old Jeffrey Gonano, who works for his family’s fire sprinkler business, learned Wednesday that his ticket had won the Paris raffle. Organizers say nearly 50,000 tickets were sold worldwide, for €100 apiece, to benefit a Lebanese charity.”

He even says that allegations to the contrary “hurt me very much”. And well they might, since those allegations have had his next employers a bit concerned.

Omid Djalili: “My English side really loves the royal family, and my Iranian side hates me for this. … You can tell I’m a very, very British person, but I’ve kept my roots quite strong. I still speak Farsi. I find Arabs hilarious.”