Category: people

“[It’s] actually an important part of me and it’s an important part of the world and here it is, and I’m not ashamed of it and I’m certainly not going to hide it, and it’s going in my next book and if you can’t deal with that I can’t … I’m certainly not going to do anything about it.”

“During his 25 years as music director of the Charleston Symphony, he transformed a modest community ensemble into a respected professional orchestra, winning praise from civic leaders, arts patrons and classical music colleagues all over the world.”

“The move came as the museum’s finances — and attendance — decreased to the point that the attraction was in danger of draining the Liberace Foundation scholarship account. It also came as Hollywood gears up to make a movie about the flamboyant entertainer, born in a Milwaukee suburb in 1919.”

“I think my main concern at the beginning was whether my memory was really reliable. [Co-writer James] Fox had to do a little sleuthing.” (And we always thought that if you claimed to remember the ’60s, you weren’t really there.)

“I am going to be 80 next year, I have to tell you. I started out with Roosevelt. So I know that these are not these outrageously difficult times. We didn’t have health care when I was born. But what happened then, which is not as true now, is that people were helpful to one another.”

“Unlike traditional origami, where every step is precisely defined so that folders can produce accurate copies, Joisel’s sculptures were always partially improvised, so that each one was distinctive. His figures sometimes took years to design and could take up to two weeks to fold into final shape.”

In an article headlined “Homer and Bart are Catholics,” L’Osservatore Romano declared, “‘Few people know it, and he does everything to hide it. But it’s true: Homer J. Simpson is Catholic. … The Simpsons are among the few TV programmes for children [sic] in which Christian faith, religion, and questions about God are recurrent themes.”

Executive producer Al Jean, who reminds us that the Simpson family attends the “Presbylutheran” First Church of Springfield, says, “We’ve pretty clearly shown that Homer is not Catholic. I really don’t think he could go without eating meat on Fridays – for even an hour.”

“Whereas privately his friends delight in his clever, zany humour and mercurial mental energy, his public persona can seem a little remote. Today, however, suitcase problems aside, he is smilingly at ease. He has good reason. He has just been honoured with Gramophone magazine’s lifetime achievement award.”

“Portly and soft-featured, Mr. Bosley cultivated an avuncular public persona in his best-known roles” – which included Mayor LaGuardia in the Broadway musical Fiorello!, for which he won a Tony; Sheriff Amos Tucker on the TV series Murder, She Wrote; and, most famously, as the paterfamilias in the long-running sitcom Happy Days.