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“Not at all. I read the script through once, and that’s it. … Because at the bottom of my heart I’m still a dancer: I can only learn my text along with the particular bodily movements and gestures.”

“Amy Pinto-Walsh, a petite woman with long dark hair, has produced barely legible, handwritten notes she claims Kinkade wrote, giving her the keys to his Monte Sereno mansion and $10 million to establish a museum of his original paintings there.”

“Death figures large in the work of Ms. Calle, widely acclaimed as France’s leading conceptual artist, and occupies an important place in her life. She celebrates it in style – her own, her mother’s, that of strangers and pets – along with birthdays and moments of amorous rupture.”

Riffing on one of Ai’s more notorious pieces, which included photos of himself flipping off Tiananmen Square and Beijing’s Olympic Stadium, the producers of the recent documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry are “inviting fans of the artist to submit photographs of themselves giving a middle-finger salute to symbols of injustice … The photos will be assembled into a mosaic and given to Ai upon his release” from house arrest this month.

“The trailblazing performer, choreographer and teacher founded Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers (WCD) in 1964 and its affiliated school in 1972. She became an influential artist on a national scale.”

“I don’t think it’s about aptitude, it’s about wanting to get the biggest laugh. You get that if you go as big as you can. At one point in the show, I slap myself in the face. The harder I slap myself, the bigger the laugh I get. So it’s not an ability, it’s a desire for the reaction.”

“Waukegan, Ill., has two festivals, a park and a library conference room named after Ray Bradbury. But what the town still needs, according to the late author’s biographer, is a Ray Bradbury museum.”

“Reflecting on his TV career, Cady told the Portland Oregonian in 1995, ‘You get typecast. I’m remembered for those shows and not for some pretty good acting jobs I did other times. I suppose I ought to be grateful for that. Because otherwise I wouldn’t be remembered at all. I’ve got to be one of the luckiest guys in the world.'”

The Muppet Theory is “a little-known, poorly understood philosophy that holds that every living human can be classified according to one simple metric: Every one of us is either a Chaos Muppet or an Order Muppet.”

The term “science fiction” made him nervous: he did not want to be shut up in a box. And he, in his turn, made “science fiction” purists nervous, as well he might.