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He wrote like a wounded angel, and lived like one too. He hated dramatic structure and admired it. Some of his loveliest work – in plays like “Angels Fall” and “Talley & Son” – lives within the faulty framework of the dramatic architecture that he resented having to take seriously.

“I was always so amazed when we did press conferences on tour at how articulate she was about what she was doing. She could charm everybody and relate everything to these great issues in life: love and jealousy and desire. She could make everybody feel like they were taking part in a poem.”

“Although overshadowed by colleagues like Albert and David Maysles and D. A. Pennebaker, Mr. Leacock was a seminal figure in developing the artistic theories and the small, lightweight camera and sound equipment that led to a new style of reportorial filmmaking.”

“My dad gave me a subscription to Ms. magazine when I was 12, which just delighted me to no end. I remember seeing an advertisement that used the word ‘masturbate,’ and the moment I saw that word in context I knew what it meant. I knew that suddenly this was an objective reality and that Satan was not in my underpants”.

“Most of the actors said they do not talk about politics with their actor cronies unless asked–and even then respond circumspectly. They’ve mastered the art of remaining silent and blank-faced when political topics surface.”

“He seemed to transform every work of art he wrote about; you never looked at one the same way after reading what Steinberg wrote about it.”

“[Her] life offered a mesmerizing series of sagas to rival any movie plot, and they were chronicled by the media since her boost to fame as the enchanting 12-year-old star of National Velvet (1944). By her mid-20s, she had been a screen goddess, teenage bride, mother, divorcee and widow.”

Dana Stevens: “Not fleshy – though there were periods when her gloriously abundant, ever-changing body qualified for that adjective, too – but fleshly, vibrantly incarnate. Unlike many great onscreen beauties, … [she] reveled in her pulchritude” – and in her formidable appetites.

“Often compared to Baryshnikov — another dancer rakish enough in a pair of white tights to gain cineplex appeal — Millepied the dance maker has been punished of late by the New York press. Initially the critics embraced the elegance and velocity of his work, yet recently there’s rankling about his ratio of charm to substance and questions of whether he’s delivering on his promise.”

“There’s the time that Jean-Michel Basquiat visited [the billionaire arts patron’s] house and stole away to smoke pot in the bathroom. There’s the time that President Clinton was guest of honor for a fundraising dinner and recognized a lounging female figure sculpted by George Segal as a woman he used to date in Arkansas.”