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“Wasserstein jealously guarded her own narrative, but now it has been taken out of her hands. She turns out to have been a more complex and nuanced character than any of her own creations, and a darker one, too.”

“Poet, playwright and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has been voted the greatest German of all time in a new poll, beating runners-up chancellor Konrad Adenauer and physicist Albert Einstein.”

He accused officials of “deny[ing] us basic rights” and compared migrant workers to slaves, describing Beijing as “a city of violence” and “a constant nightmare”.

“Licitra lost control of his scooter while out late on Saturday near the [Sicilian] city of Ragusa, fell and struck his head … He was not wearing a helmet.” Hospital officials describe his condition as “stable, but extremely grave.”

The Japanese conductor, who over the past two years has dealt with esophageal cancer and major back surgery, had just begun a comeback at the Saito Kinen Festival. But after two performances, he reportedly contracted pneumonia and has withdrawn from the festival orchestra’s appearance in China this week.

In the early 1990s, Simon Lewis was on his way up in Hollywood. Then, in an auto accident, he “broke everything you could break and lost a third of one of his brain hemispheres.” After 15 years of surgeries and recovery, he now “reads articles on quantum mechanics for fun” and his “brain damage has made him literally incapable of making movies that are either silly or disposable.”

“London audiences have a rare opportunity this week – to attend the first public screening of a film that so incensed its funders they wanted it incinerated.” Loach talks about the 1969 film – and the controversial work he’s created since then.

June Wayne, who died Tuesday at the age of 93, took on a quixotic task: Reviving lithography and printmaking in the aftermath of Abstract Expressionism. And she succeeded.

“The idea that public figures will have a tough time proving the required ‘actual malice’ and therefore shouldn’t bring defamation lawsuits almost seems like an antiquated notion now.”

“Someone asked if we give reality show characters stars? Hell to the No!” was posted on the Walk of Fame’s Facebook page on Wednesday.