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“As a principal dancer, she created roles in Limón classics like There Is a Time and Missa Brevis.” She danced with the company for two decades and became its director upon Limón’s death; she founded and directed her own company as well.

“Jay Jopling has been at the right place at the right time, but he has also been very passionate about art and about his artists. It is true he is an ‘art politician’, but not at all in a bad sense.”

“In his personal writings, Gray comes across in a more extreme way than in his theatrical persona, his anguish and need not tempered by his perceptive charm. … But these entries also show an artist discovering his powers, in the process of creating an autobiographical genre that has since been so widely replicated that it is hard to imagine the daring it took to come first.”

“I have no desire to disparage or dismiss anything Jobs has done for his company, for its stockholders, or for millions of people who are incurably addicted to incessantly checking their tiny Apple phones or washing their brains with endless streams of music–I just want to explain why Jobs is no Edison.”

“The relentless intensity and total commitment that Mr. Jobs brought to his work, former colleagues and friends agree, had a simple explanation: he genuinely enjoyed what he did and found it worthwhile.”

After almost five decades at Disneyland, the head janitor retires — and tells a few tales. “It was a little disconcerting at first, because Walt Disney was watching us,” Ray Sidejas says. “Then Walt would come and ask us what we were doing.”

Hitch still has a lot to say, and when he’s not talking or writing articles, he says some of it in a recent book that covers terrorism, oral sex and wine waiters.

Williams topped the Billboard charts in the 1950s with everything from “Autumn Leaves” to “Lara’s Theme,” and he played for many a president, including a 12-hour marathon when he and Jimmy Carter both turned 80.

“His legacy can be seen in virtually every corner of Disney, from the budding resurgence of Walt Disney Animation Studios to the $1-billion overhaul of Disney’s California Adventure and the expansion of its cruise line.”

“[She’s] really struggling with her addictions, struggling to overcome them, really has that vision of herself in Porgy’s eyes. For her it’s staying away from her addictions long enough so she can walk toward that vision of this whole worthy woman, worthy of being loved.”