Category: people

“Thanks in large part to Ben Cooper, costume choices became unlimited – and Hollywood-inflected – helping Halloween become the pop culture phenomenon it is today.”

“There’s an enormous amount you have to give up if you want to have a family. You can have a certain career, but you can’t be living in Hollywood, [where] absolutely everything, everything revolves around it. That wasn’t my choice. I’d rather revolve around somebody else’s career and then still find my own.”

“‘Of course, he is a very bad poet and an even worse person,’ Brodsky says of Yevgeny Yevtushenko. This pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the half-hour interview,” which took place in Vienna in 1972, shortly after the Nobel prizewinner left the Soviet Union for good.

In a 1964 essay Danto coined the term “artworld”, which he defined as the cultural and historical context in which a work of art is created. The notion laid the groundwork for the philosopher George Dickie’s institutional theory of art, which states that an artefact becomes a work of art when “the artworld” confers “upon it the status of a candidate for appreciation”. Twenty years later, Danto published his most famous essay, “The End of Art”.

“I was a terrible pain in the ass: 20s, 30s, 40s, those decades. … My career has been like a Chekhov play – not the normal exposition, plot, conflict, denouement – but all over the map in terms of success, money, fame, wipeout and back again.”

“In a verdict she described as ‘a miracle’, Loren, 79 and living in Geneva, was declared by Italy’s supreme court to have been in the right over calculation of tax paid on her 1974 earnings. Her accountants said she should pay 60% while the authorities said 70% was due.”

“Bird said she enjoyed working with British actors because they ‘arrive on the set and they have an idea of what they want to do in the scene.'”

“As a restlessly inventive solo artist, from the Seventies into the 2010s, he was chameleonic, thorny and unpredictable, challenging his fans at every turn.”

“It was her Emmy-winning role as Edna Krabappel, Bart Simpson’s teacher with the snarky laugh, that may have earned her the most fame in recent years. It was a part she held since the show’s premiere in 1990.”