Category: people

Current and former employees claim that Tina Brown and Barry Diller “underestimated what it would take to reverse the dive of a print magazine (the two have acknowledged as much) and that there was never a credible plan to integrate the products into a better whole (an opinion they utterly contest).”

“All of us are going around with an entire story of our lives, completely different from the story of our lives that anybody else would tell. So much of our lives never breaks the surface.”

“Schumann lived his art to such a degree that his anxious personal life and his mercurial compositions became one and the same.”

Toby Saks was only the third woman member of the New York Philharmonic when she joined the orchestra in the 1970s. She started the Seattle Chamber Music Festival and served as its artistic director for 30 years. She was 71.

“Entertaining their parents, for the King children, was part job, part enrichment. At bedtime, they were the ones expected to tell their parents stories, instead of the other way around.”

She starred in Truffaut’s first professional film (the short The Mischief-Makers) and arguably the first Nouvelle Vague feature, Chabrol’s Le Beau Serge, and she went on to perform in numerous films by those directors and others. “[Her] fresh look and performance style crystallised the movement’s ideological and cinematic ambitions.”

October 1957: “Yes, I’ve found peace in Florida.” November 1957: “Eating tangerines now, but I saved the one that fell on my head.” January 1958: “Ah, shit, I feel dreary, I’m telling you there are NO VIBRATIONS in Florida or anywhere in the south, the people are DEAD.”

“[She] was the epitome of the ‘gruff but lovable’ type, often bringing comedic sparkle to workaday frustrations while playing figures worn weary by their lives but still able to laugh off the worst.”

“In contrast to looking down at a smartphone’s screen, one can be more continuously present and engaged during a live conversation with carbon-based creatures, even if the urge to tap and slide at one’s touch pad [situated at the right temple] and make circular motions with one’s head can be overwhelming.”