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The so-called “genius” awards give each of the 23 recipients $500,000 over five years.

She made “a total of 46 films from 1932 to 1946. She abandoned movies, she said, after growing tired of being typecast as ‘girl reporter, girl detective, girl overboard.’ … Ms. Stuart had long since moved on from Hollywood when James Cameron, the director of Titanic, rediscovered her for the role of Rose Calvert, a 101-year-old survivor of the ship’s sinking. She was 86 at the time.”

“We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power. I went to give a talk at my old school and the girls were all doing their ‘likes’ and ‘innits?’ and ‘it ain’ts’, which drives me insane. I told them, ‘Just don’t do it. Because it makes you sound stupid and you’re not stupid’.”

“In a career spanning more than 55 years Sondheim has written 17 musicals and countless songs, and it is something of an oddity that there is only one of them that most people – which is to say people who are not fans of musical theatre in general and Sondheim in particular – would immediately recognise.”

The grandson of the author of Dr Zhivago has savaged plans to build a museum opposite the Kremlin, saying the design resembles “a Central Asian regional communist party headquarters”.

Jerry Gorovoy, her assistant and factotum for 30 years: “We made a bargain.Louise would make the work and I would do everything else.” Bourgeois: “When you are at the bottom of a well, you look around and you say, who is going to get me out? In this case, Jerry comes and presents a rope.”

While he’s most familiar for the scores to such popular TV and film productions as Brideshead Revisited; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; and Monty Python’s Life of Brian,, Burgon’s primary focus was concert music. He composed an opera, music for dance, orchestral scores, and song cycles; his sacred music is now standard repertory for choirs all over England.

An attorney by trade, Levine helped fund and govern the Concert Association of Florida, led the planning of the Lincoln Road pedestrian mall/arts district, and “raised millions for the [CAF], the Miami City Ballet, the Performing Arts Center Trust – which planned and built the Adrienne Arsht Center – and the New World Symphony.”

At The Village Voice in the early 1960s, she chronicled New York’s exploding avant-garde performance scene. A decade later, she became a standard-bearer of the lesbian separatist movement, with her book Lesbian Nation and such notorious events as the kiss-in she and friends staged during a Town Hall debate on feminism chaired by a sputtering Norman Mailer.

“[The] Grammy-nominated jazz saxophonist, flautist, bandleader and educator … played important roles in Los Angeles jazz as a musician and an advocate for the rights of African American musicians.”