Category: people

On Maus: “I feel like … a blues musician who had one crossover hit, so they just ask you to play that at every concert,” he says.

“Last August, the Mission Impossible actor ordered lobster and chicken tikka masala when he and eight companions visited the Veer Dhara in St Albans.”

Lebbous Woods “envisioned underground cities, floating buildings and an eternal space tomb for Albert Einstein worthy of the great physicist’s expansive intellect.”

Director Tom Hooper: “She claims it’s coincidence. I think she’s too shrewd. But we’ll never know.”

“Possessed of a brazen, naïve genius — he played no instrument, could not read music and wrote his songs in his head — Mr. Morton was almost single-handedly responsible for the wild success of the Shangri-Las, the Queens girl group he introduced and propelled to international stardom.”

“After all, that could mean this self-taught, former Skagit Valley hippie artist was using the guise of art and irony to smuggle far-right symbols into museums, galleries, collectors’ homes, and upscale decor shops like Far4 on First Avenue.”

Actress Holland Taylor talks about spending four years researching, writing and starring in a one-woman show about the late Texas governor. Says Cecile Richards of Taylor, “And now she is practically part of the family. I think she knows more about my mother than I do.”

Scottish parliamentarian Alex Johnstone: “The reign of Macbeth, set in the context of the time, was successful and outward looking. To many, however, it is characterised by paranoia and murder because of Shakespeare’s portrayal. The proposal is to form an authoritative trail of important places connected with Macbeth … to allow people to draw a distinction between the fictional and factual character.”

Most official portraits of the Virgin Queen depict a regal, smooth-faced Gloriana more or less impervious to the ravages of time. A recently authenticated painting now on view in Washington shows Elizabeth looking as queenly as always, but like the sexagenarian she was at the time.

“Standing in front of a giant heart made of pink tulips, businessman Yoshiharu Nishiguchi tells his wife – along with a bank of TV cameras and curious bystanders – that he is utterly devoted to her.”