Category: people

“Rockwell left Arlington in 1953, and many of his child models grew up and followed suit. But on Saturday, dozens returned for a celebration of Rockwell, a reunion of grown models in the small town that set the stage for some of his most iconic works.”

“Even Roald Dahl could not have dreamt up the horrifying series of events that rocked his family in the 1960s, just as his career was taking off.”

“We knew from the outset that we would be charting unexplored waters. I was fully aware of the risks but that didn’t stop me from standing up for my colleagues. I felt the issues of freedom of expression and critical independence needed to be addressed.”

The attorney and administrator, who over several decades helped Music Viva Australia become the world’s largest single presenter of chamber music, went on to be lead author of the so-called “Tribe Report,” which led to the separation of the country’s orchestras from the national broadcaster.

Crime novelist Earl Derr Biggers’s “honorable Chinese detective from Honolulu” – for decades a popular (and very clever) character before being dismissed as a demeaning stereotype – was modeled on an actual immigrant from China who became one of Honolulu’s most formidable police officers.

“In his three years of running the Getty Research Institute, Thomas Gaehtgens has gained the admiration of his staff for making the institute a more open and collaborative place. His employees even wonder whether trustees are looking at him for the top job once held by James Wood.”

Among the dozens of movies he worked on were Hitchcock’s North by Northwest and The Birds as well as The Shootist, In Cold Blood, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Private Benjamin and Fiddler on the Roof.

“[Her] spare, literate screenplays made her a favored collaborator for directors including Vittorio De Sica, Michelangelo Antonioni, Luchino Visconti and Mario Monicelli.”

“This time last week, Nathaniel Corum was on a Navajo reservation in Arizona where three elders’ families were moving into new solar-powered homes that he’d designed to be built from straw bales. Next came the news that the Plastiki, a boat made from 12,500 recycled plastic bottles for which he’d designed the cabin, had docked safely in Sydney after a 130-day voyage across the Pacific to protest against plastic waste.”

He’s 40-year-old baritone Eric Owens, and this summer, between his appearances in the NY Phil’s Grand Macabre and the Met’s new Ring, he’s taking up the baton at Aspen’s conducting institute. And, so he could play in the conducting students’ orchestra with his 20-something fellows, he returned to the oboe after a two-decade break.