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“The cerebral Lynch has a very personal relationship with music, so much so that The A.V. Club was requested to refrain from actually saying the title ‘It’s A Small World’ throughout the entire interview. A code word for the song, ‘Flappy,’ was predetermined before the interview.”

“Colville had been a pre-eminent figure on the Canadian art scene since the Second World War, when he was a war artist and chronicled the Canadian assault on Juno Beach in France.”

The estate agent describes the property, priced at £650,000, as: “A most picturesque 17th century brick-and-flint period cottage … set in a sheltered walled garden in the heart of the old village within 250 yards of the foreshore.”

He played a variety of character roles in ore than 400 films over a 60-odd-year career, but he was best-known for the then-unprecedented complexity and humor he brought to his evil characters beginning in the late 1940s. “And although he stood only 5-foot-7, his intense eyes and majestic voice made him an intimidating antagonist to much taller actors.”

The host of This American Life pays tribute to his late friend, a longtime contributor to the show -and shares private video footage of Rakoff recording the audio version of his final book.

“See, I wish that gay marriage would be legal everywhere, but that no gay people would act on it. because, look. nobody wants to go to anybody’s wedding.”

“I’m not really that into it anymore … The world has gotten too mean for me, it’s just too bitchy. All the websites and all the blogging and all the people giving their opinion and their hatred … it’s all so mean-spirited, it’s all so critical.”

“He is French literature’s perpetual enfant terrible, with a reputation for bolshy rebelliousness and causing offence. So when Michel Houellebecq, hailed as France’s greatest living novelist, failed to turn up for part of a promotional book tour in the Netherlands and Belgium in 2011, it might have been brushed aside as a mere quirk or oversight.”

“It’s absurd to say that anyone “should” retire, especially when he has as much to offer as Domingo has. Say rather that a health scare to a great artist serves as a reminder to everyone of how much they appreciate him, and thus boosts the hope that what he does in the next years of his career helps to bolster his artistic legacy rather than detracting from it.”

Monteith’s “Glee” character Finn resisted joining the glee club but “became a crucial member, sharing vocal duties on its signature cover of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin.'”