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The filmmaker claimed that he never kept any of his papers or effects; in fact, he carefully collected them at his Baltic island retreat. “There’s always a germ of truth in everything he says,” says a curator. “People tend to interpret his movies as straight autobiographies when, in fact, he took a tremendous amount of creative license.”

“The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Tuesday it had received ‘a cordial, handwritten note’ from 79-year-old Godard in response to its notification that he would receive a statuette.” The note “indicated that, schedule permitting, he would come to Los Angeles for the November 13 Governors Awards event.”

“[The] media has mythologised her as a diva who sometimes uses a megaphone in her Clerkenwell [London] office, and who hobnobs with A-list friends such as Karl Lagerfeld. She encourages it, playfully: today her toenails are the colour of Greek lemons, to match [her] chic canary-yellow coat.”

“Dahl had an idyllic childhood until the age of 3, when his older sister suddenly died and was followed, weeks later, by her heartbroken father. This was the beginning of a toxic tsunami of bad luck that would toss Dahl around for the rest of his life. … [It’s] sometimes hard to know … whether to root for Dahl or for whatever angry hell-demon seemed so determined to bring him down.”

L. Subramaniam, 63 and one of the world’s top performers of Carnatic (South Indian classical) music, filed charges last month against his maid for stealing money and jewelry from his home. The following day, the maid accused him of sexual harassment.

“[He] was among the most recognizable faces in Ireland, a result of his years … on the long-running soapy drama Glenroe … Mr. Lally was a theater actor and teacher when he, [Garry] Hynes and the actress Marie Mullen created the Druid in 1975.”

“He left [his] house, Shaw’s Corner, and its contents to the National Trust complete with an enormous photographic collection of more than 20,000 prints, negatives and glass plates. These will become available for the first time to scholars and enthusiasts as the images are digitised and put online.”

“I thought, when you have an operation, have to sit there and stay in hospital four weeks or five weeks, these things go away. It didn’t. When I became better, and then I started to walk in springtime, it came back, and even worse, because there’s no muscle around there. And this is the situation now.”

“This year’s Kennedy Center honorees, announced today, include country musician Merle Haggard, choreographer Bill T. Jones, composer Jerry Herman and Sir Paul McCartney. But all of them, including the former Beatle, will likely be upstaged by Oprah Winfrey, who was also on the list.”

“His impact as a musician, as a brand, as a sign of the times, has been as great as Dylan and the Beatles, his influence as an otherworldly pop star actually greater … [an] erudite pop combination of shaman, singer, thinker and shameless self-promoter.”