Category: people

“Dominique Strauss-Kahn has failed to have a kiss-and-tell book by an old mistress banned but won a court order insisting a card outlining his objections should be individually placed inside every copy of the book sold.”

“Glenn Gould National Park? Mount Gould? Gould Falls? The Gould Archipelago? Glenn Strait?”

After a very successful film career (“He’s up there on Mt. Everest with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly,” says Jacques d’Amboise), Mattox left Hollywood, “headed to New York City and then Europe and became a major figure in the evolution of jazz dance.”

“Mangoes don’t have an obvious connection to the Chinese Cultural Revolution; in the 1960s, they weren’t even cultivated in northern China.” Yet they’re featured with the Great Helmsman in a lot of propaganda art from the late 1960s – thanks to a convergence of the Cultural Revolution, the Pakistani ambassador, and the Worker-Peasant Mao Zedong Thought Propaganda Teams.

“I wouldn’t say it’s a form of performance art. It is expression, but not one designed for a show. It’s dangerous, it’s very frustrating, and it’s real life. It’s a way to survive.”

“Frustratingly for those who would like to find out more about this enigmatic Irishwoman, she burned letters from likely lovers such as Romanian architect Jean Badovici and music hall singer Damia.”

“His signature images from the 1940s through the 1950s and into the 1960s, many in the fierce hues of increasingly popular color film that emulated the emergent Technicolor palate of American movies, helped define — visually, anyway — an era.”

“For as many times as she bubbled around the stage as Mozart’s love-stricken adolescent, Cherubino, she tore people’s hearts in two with her immensely sympathetic Suzuki (Madama Butterfly). “

It’s not enough that the 28-year-old Stevens has three movies in the works, is playing a lead on Broadway and is currently England’s number-one international heartthrob. He’s Editor-at-Large at The Junket, an online journal he co-founded, and he was editor-in-chief for the current issue.

As director of the Swedish Radio Choir and Stockholm Chamber Choir (which was later named after him), as the author of a major textbook on choral conducting, and through countless workshops and guest-conducting dates, Ericson became known worldwide (and revered among choir geeks) as the standard-bearer for the Nordic style of choral singing.