Category: people

“But on Twitter you find yourself doing all sorts of things you wouldn’t otherwise do. And once you’ve entered the Enchanted E-Forest, lured in there by cute bunnies and playful kittens, you can find yourself wandering around in it for quite some time. You might even find yourself climbing the odd tree-the very odd tree-or taking refuge in the odd hollow log-the very odd hollow log-because cute bunnies and playful kittens are not the only things alive in the mirkwoods of the Web.”

“Vincent LaGuardia, 68, was the longtime conductor of the Arapahoe Philharmonic, a small classical group in Littleton, Colo. LaGuardia collapsed about two-thirds of the way through” Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor.

At several points during an interview on a Pittsburgh public radio station, the 82-year-old composer-conductor – who has grown visibly weaker over the past few years – “exclaimed that he didn’t understand [the interviewer’s] questions and later called them ‘ridiculous.’ It was rude plain and simple.”

“The name Jerwood is ubiquitous in the arts, adorning playhouses, dance studios, rehearsal spaces, student bursaries, prizes ranging from drawing to dance, exhibitions and now an art gallery. Jerwood is the great enabler, the crucial partner without which the Royal Court would have closed. And Jerwood is controlled absolutely by a single, 84-year-old retired lawyer, driving it on a path of cultural philanthropy.”

The artist “was a bit player in Hollywood and a superstar of the page and canvas. The subtle paradox that tugs at the eye of his audience is that everything portrayed — the landscapes, denizens, technologies and even physics — is totally alien but also completely unified in presentation and rendered with the confident precision of a surveyor who has walked every inch of a property.”

The British actress stars in three films opening soon, but Hollywood is not her favorite place. “I don’t want to go to event after event, I don’t really enjoy getting glammed up for that crap night after night. I don’t want to go to the opening of an envelope just to be seen, you know, it’s just gross.”

“What I do has to do with trying different things, and every once in a while out there in right field or left field something happens. I used to try to ignore that because I was directed. I felt you had to be disciplined. Then finally I realized I’ve never had any discipline. I work out of obsession.”

“[His] art documented the 1955 Mississippi trial of the men accused of lynching Chicago teenager Emmett Till; the Second Vatican Council of the Catholic Church; and political campaigns from Dwight Eisenhower’s run for president through the debates between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton.”

“Forbes, which has produced an annual list of billionaires for the past 25 years, said that Miss Rowling’s declining fortune was the result of her charitable giving, which had left a significant dent in her bank balance, along with the heavy taxation burden levied on high earners in Britain.”

“They will always be defined by the roles they played. Robert Wagner is the suave star of It Takes a Thief and Hart to Hart. … Sally Field is The Flying Nun and Norma Rae. And Henry Winkler? He’s the Fonz. … They made their mark personifying youthful vigor in blockbuster hits; now they are starring in TV and YouTube infomercials promising to help seniors overcome the debilitating challenges of old age.”