Category: people

“Less than four months after a freak accident on the set of The Good Wife left her with a litany of head and body injuries, she’s returning to the stage” with three California performances of a 90-minute solo show.

“Two women from punk band Pussy Riot sentenced to jail for an anti-Putin protest in a Moscow cathedral face harsh, Soviet-style prison camps where their lives may be in danger due to a lack of medicine and no hot water amid sub-zero winter temperatures, according to a recently released band member.”

“I was a fresh-faced seventeen-year-old, she was a prominent international author – and we were lovers. By ‘lovers’ I mean: we were constantly raping each other. Well, first there’d be a long speech. Usually by her. Then we’d gaze deeply at one another, and our souls would begin speaking the only language a man and a woman ever need: the language of mutual self-benefit.”

“Porn used to account for about 35 percent of Ahmed’s supply; now it’s 10 percent. Ahmed reasons that porn, compared to fashion, is something people generally prefer to consume over the Internet.”

“Q. The North Dakota Ojibwe reservation in your novels has frequently been compared to Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County for its scope and variety of characters. Have you been directly influenced or inspired by Faulkner?

A. Most writers have been influenced by Faulkner.”

Keith Miller was training “for a workout with the Denver Broncos, when he saw a flier announcing an open opera audition for the Pine Mountain Music Festival in Michigan. On a whim, he showed up.”

“Expand our universe!” Lucas commands his artists and technicians. He is a man of machines yet a lover of nature, his wily persona of genial blandness masking one of the most powerful and tenacious minds in contemporary culture.

“Björk was considered the leading lady of Swedish theater, with a cool aura not unlike that of Greta Garbo. [Her] deep, self-restrained voice was impossible to confuse with anyone else’s. She appeared in more than 100 roles, many directed by Bergman. Björk’s international breakthrough came with the title role in Alf Sjöberg’s 1951 Strindberg adaptation Miss Julie.”

“One week after Mo Yan became the first Chinese author to win the Nobel prize, proud local officials rushed out a £70 million plan to transform his sleepy village into a ‘Mo Yan Culture Experience Zone’.” An official told Mo’s father, “Your son is no longer your son, and the house is no longer your house. It does not really matter if you agree or not.”

“During the hearing, he described his anguish during his first month in the maximum-security Millhaven penitentiary before he was transferred to a minimum-security institution.”