Category: people

“When Howard Carter discovered King Tutankhamun’s treasure-packed tomb in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings, he found a large collection of footwear of different sizes and shapes.” There were simple sewn sandals of palm leaf and papyrus, shoes with elaborate veneer soles depicting foreign captives, and gold-and-beadwork orthopedics to accommodate the Pharaoh’s club foot.

“Operatic in its ambitions, retro disco in its inclinations, Here Lies Love is an exhaustive, exhausting examination of the life of Imelda Marcos assembled by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim.”

A passionate ballet fan and wealthy scion of a Swiss watchmaking family, “Braunschweig seemed less enthusiastic about performances than about his ceaseless campaign to better the lot of aspiring dancers and retired dancers.” So, in 1973, he created the now-famous Prix de Lausanne “with a focus on furthering dancers’ training, offer[ing] scholarships to some of ballet’s leading academies.”

The playwright wed his civil partner Tuesday “on the banks of the Potomac near the Kennedy Center, which is running a series of McNally’s plays.”

“I told him I had a date with a chess hustler in Washington Square Park to play for money. Kubrick wanted the name. ‘Fred Duval’ I said. … ‘Duval is a patzer,’ is what he said. Unless you have been around chess players you cannot imagine what an insult this is.”

“How Barbara Jean Davis, a former [Arkansas] pickle-factory worker and the only child of Free Will Baptists … became Norris Church Mailer, a Wilhelmina model, a novelist, a painter, an actress and a ringmaster extraordinaire.” Says she, “Well, I bought a ticket to the circus. I don’t know why I was surprised to see elephants.”

With a Hollywood film and an Off-Broadway musical in preparation, it seems that Mrs. Fitzgerald suits the zeitgeist. Says the star of the musical, “She got the spotlight on her and had nothing to deliver, like so many young girls today who get arrested for being drunk and crashing up their cars. I think she probably would’ve been famous anyway, without Scott, just for being outrageous.”

“Although he was primarily known in the media as an old-time Leftie – he and Vanessa were active members of the Workers’ Revolutionary party in the 1970s – he was, first and foremost, an award-winning actor, as befits a member of the legendary Redgrave dynasty.”

“Scraps of pottery, broken clay pipe and a 19th century penny have emerged from a muddy hole in what was a garden until a week ago. But this is the most extensive hunt for Shakespeare in his own backyard in 150 years, and every scrap is precious.”

The lawsuit is over the photographer’s failure “to pay at least $315,000 in fees [the firm] claims are due as part of her financing deal with the private- equity firm Colony Capital LLC.”