Category: people

Tony Dow (even his name calls to mind the opening of the T.V. show) may be known as the older brother of the Beav, but he’s a serious sculptor now – partly thanks to a history-poor 28-year-old T.V. executive.

Lane, whose photos of the 1970 Women’s Strike for Equality made front pages and who was one of very few photographers of Stonewall, “made a point of lugging her equipment to every rally — whether she was paid to go or not — and getting to know the leaders.”

According to the Spanish newspaper El Correro, the octogenarian amateur restorer has hired a lawyer and wants to copyright the image, which a BBC correspondent likened to “a crayon sketch of a very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic.”

“He was old school in the sense that he knew everyone — presidents and dissidents, giants like Vaclav Havel, Gabriel García Márquez and Walter Cronkite — and never dropped their names. He was old school in that he would edit out a chapter of a manuscript — as he once did to me — and you would thank him, ultimately.”

“[Homeland] is a true serial, not a procedural. It’s cumulative, and you will negatively impact your experience if you cheat [by watching episodes out of order]. People who sell it, they don’t give a shit how you watch, but I do give a shit, and I want you to watch it the way that it was designed.”

Joyce Johnson: “After Jack’s death in 1969, I kept up with the stream of biographies that began to appear, seldom finding in them the man I’d known myself. Jack’s life provides a writer with almost too much tempting sensational material. It is easy to fall into the trap of trying to put it all in, which will often result in a book without a central thread – in other words, lots of stuff but no story.”

“Those who told us that Lucille Ball was ‘very wearing’ were not exaggerating. She is a monster of staggering charmlessness and monumental lack of humour. I loathed her the first day. I loathed her the second day and the third. I loathe her today but I now also pity her.”

“At 12 noon I did something beyond outrage. I bought Elizabeth the jet plane we flew in yesterday. It costs, brand new, $960,000. She was not displeased.”

“I have been like a mad and highly articulate bull with all kinds of people I normally have great respect for. This is par for the course when I am drinking heavily, but I’m surprised that I still do it when sober. If it is still the same in a month I shall go back to old father booze and find out how long it will take him to kill me.”

“A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School has identified a scrap of papyrus that she says was written in Coptic in the fourth century and contains a phrase never seen in any piece of Scripture: ‘Jesus said to them, ‘My wife …’.”