Category: people

“She tests everyone – her staff, her clients, the users of her buildings, and herself – and offers an unspoken deal. If you survive all this, I will make something fantastic, and you could be part of it, is roughly how it goes, and people’s view of her will depend on which part of the deal they experience most.”

“Need a cute or cranky grandfather? Call Murray. He appeared in ‘The Hangover,’ ‘I Love You, Man’ and other movies, and had recurring TV roles on ‘Parks and Recreation,’ ‘The Sarah Silverman Program’ and ‘The Tonight Show.'”

“Nicholson was forged in an era sympathetic to his characteristics: the renegade energy, the deranged smile that doubles as a dam to contain his fury.”

“Banerjee grabbed headlines in 1995 with her book ‘A Kabuliwala’s Bengali Wife,’ which recounts her story of marrying her Afghan husband and moving to Afghanistan to be with him. It also talks about her dramatic escape from the region after the Taliban threatened her.”

“‘I’ve mentioned that I would retire many times in the past, so a lot of you must be thinking “Oh, not again,'”  [director Hayao] Miyazaki said on Friday at a packed news conference in Tokyo. ‘But this time I am quite serious.'”

Jerry Russell “wanted to create the kind of professional theater that Fort Worth really didn’t have then, one that did major dramatic classics as well as riskier new plays. He brought on serious, high-quality dramas, paid his actors and provided a great deal of wisdom and guidance — while working non-stop to keep everything going.”

“Among the topics that can bring this out in Mr. Crystal, 65, … are the acknowledgment of his advancing years; personal losses he has experienced; and, tangentially, the labored creation of his 2012 film, Parental Guidance, which cast him and Bette Midler as unconventional grandparents, and which he said was not an easy sell at the major movie studios.”

“I’ve made a whole number of movies over the years about characters that seem to be completely unaware of themselves. I suppose in English the word that we often use is ‘clueless’. That’s the central feeling I’m left with at the end of making this movie. What is he thinking? Is this a performance? Is he acting? Does he believe in what he is saying?”

“The newly discovered article in a Parisian daily records important details. Le Petit Journal reported that Van Gogh used a razor. He then went to a ‘house of ill repute’, where he ‘gave his ear in a folded piece of paper’ to the doorkeeper. Van Gogh told the recipient: ‘Take it, it will be useful’.”

“Do you want to see my vocal cords? I want to show you my vocal cords. For a singer it’s like you are naked. Like you take off your clothes for Playboy. … Nobody is showing the cords because if they are not healthy you can see it. I wanted to put them in the last album but Sony said ‘no Simone, you cannot put them in the book’. I said ‘why not?'”