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“He published the books that nobody else would, because they were too risqué or too avant-garde (often that meant the same thing) or too unprofitable, and his imprint, Grove Press, quickly became a badge of coolness and sophistication. … To a considerable extent the dirty books made the arty ones possible, and Mr. Rosset wasn’t the least abashed about it.”

Highclere Castle, the family pile stately home where the TV series is filmed, was the abode of Almina, the fifth Countess of Carnarvon, the filthy-rich bastard child goddaughter of industrialist Alfred de Rothschild.

The judge was considering Church’s “claim that 33 articles about Church and her family in the now-defunct Sunday newspaper were the product of hacking into voicemails and had a negative impact on the family’s business and her mother’s health.”

“How do you watch long performance art? There are many things they have to understand about concentration and contemplation. How do you see something when nothing is happening? It’s really difficult. I will make work and exercises for the public, and I call it the Abramovic method. You hear of Stanislavski method for theatre? This is the time for Abramovic method.”

“Alison Klayman’s documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, an award-winning chronicle of that provocative Chinese artist who was detained by his country’s government for three months last year, has been acquired for North American distribution by Sundance Selects and will receive a theatrical release this summer.”

“It would be weak to take Wallace’s tongue-in-cheek humility as definitive evidence of what he was or wasn’t as a writer. Wallace was likely aware, even in his more self-doubting moments, that he was a skilled reporter (he certainly enjoyed it, at least).”

She began her four-decade career as a mezzo and became a widely-praised dramatic soprano, working frequently at Covent Garden and Opera Australia. Born in South Africa, she starred in the historic 2004 staging of Fidelio in honor of Nelson Mandela at Robben Island prison.

“[If] you’re directing and acting you’re on both sides of that equation so everyone’s just waiting on you completely which is … it needs to be shared, that relationship. There needs to be an actor and a director and they should be sharing the responsibility of getting it right. … I remember going, ‘Phil, remember this, remember this feeling right now. Don’t do this again’.”

Perry: “The number of wishy-washy semi-abstract paintings I saw was incredible. It was as though they wanted to make art, but didn’t want to say anything. I hate the aimless, apparently transcendent thing in sub-Rothkos: ‘Oh, this is all about spirituality.’ Fuck off.”

Oscar-winner Dench, 77, has macular degeneration. She said in an interview published Saturday that her eyesight was already so bad that she couldn’t read her scripts. Instead, she relies on friends and family to help her with her lines.