Category: people

“There is so much going on in people’s heads and this is why criticism is interesting to me. I’m not talking about whether someone says one of my films is good or bad, I mean that it reveals so much about the critic, about which area of life or thoughts they are trapped in.”

“Lana Turner never looks the same. I’ve seen her in hundreds of pictures and dozens of films, and each time she looks like a slightly different person. Turner was a chameleon, a Hollywood-made confection, a liar, a victim, and a real-life femme fatale, party to one of the most infamous – and tragic – Hollywood scandals.”

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“Although Ai is once again being allowed to live at home, that does not mean he is free. A trial against him can be started at any time. Nevertheless, the legal farce raises the question of why the Beijing police suddenly released Ai after three months of treating him like a traitor.”

“During this period, Ai Weiwei is still under investigation. Without permission… he is not allowed to leave his area of residence,” Hong Lei told reporters.

“I get a much bigger kick out of having my image seen like a million times for like 20 seconds and then it ends up in a trash bin, rather than having my image over somebody’s sofa for 20 years.”

“Mr. Ellsworth helped get The New York Review of Books up and running as its first publisher and also served in the mid-1970s as chairman of Amnesty International USA.”

In her new memoir of life with the author of the Millennium novels, Eva Gabrielsson gives “a description of an elaborate Viking curse she delivered on New Year’s Eve 2004 against all her and Larsson’s enemies.”

“Certainly I’ve read more books on the Middle East than any journalist writing in this country…”

“Mark Rylance’s star turn as Rooster in Jez Butterworth’s play owes much to the time he spent with the hard-drinking Wiltshire wild man who inspired the playwright.”