Category: people

“Sir Patrick presented the BBC programme The Sky At Night for over 50 years, making him the longest-running host of the same television show ever.”

“Mr. Kanzaburo’s career spanned five decades; his first performance was in 1959 at age 3, in the shadow of his father … [He] initially immersed himself in the classics before forging his own path. In 1994, he collaborated with the contemporary theater director Kazuyoshi Kushida to bring Kabuki performances to sites frequented more by Tokyo’s sneaker-wearing hipsters than by the theatergoing elite.”

“Thomas Jefferson once famously wrote, ‘All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.'” But a researcher at Monticello says that there’s no record of him ever having written or said it – or many other quotes attributed to him.

“I didn’t grow up wanting to be a square-jawed individualist or join a heroic quest; I grew up wanting to be Hari Seldon, using my understanding of the mathematics of human behaviour to save civilisation.”

Mo said he doesn’t feel that censorship should stand in the way of truth but that any defamation, or rumors, “should be censored.”

“She was devoted to the arts, to gardens and the landscape, to education and medicine, to the disabled and the underprivileged. Her name is perpetuated at places as diverse as the Melbourne Recital Centre, the Royal Botanic Gardens, the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, and the former Langwarrin Secondary College.”

“[He had] been composing since the 1960s, during which period he was a prominent disciple of Karlheinz Stockhausen, whose experimentalism and use of electronic instrumentation influenced Harvey’s early works. But from the 1970s he began to establish his own distinctive voice, drawing on an abiding interest in spirituality and world religions.”

She was “a visual effects producer who helped create the look of a bevy of blockbuster movies – from the ethereal world of Avatar down to King Kong’s 460 billion strands of wind-rustled specially lighted fur” and the Middle Earth of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.

“In 30 years [as an actor] I don’t think I’ve ever been so close to unemployment. I phoned my agent and said: in March I’m out of work.”

“It’s 1917 and Winston Churchill receives a letter from Lord Fisher. It contains the earliest example of OMG |(Oh My God). Did the toffs invent text speak? WTF! (Winston Talks French!)”