Category: people

“I thought that by this time in my life, kids coming out of college would be lucky to work with me, pleased to learn from the experience that I’ve worked so hard (and proudly) to achieve. It hasn’t turned out that way.”

Conductor Leonard Slatkin, sidelined since suffering a heart attack on Nov. 1, had been expected to conduct the DSO in concerts on Dec. 10-13, but after consulting with his doctors has chosen an additional three weeks of precautionary rest and care.

“Though a serious and prolific scholar, Mr. Landon also had a knack for making musicology seem exciting to the general public. He was a founder (or “instigator,” as he put it) of the Haydn Society, which started in Boston in 1949 and later moved its center of activities to Vienna.”

A dozen years after “an operation to remove non-cancerous nodules from her vocal cords was thought to have ended her singing career,” Julie Andrews, 74, is to “announce today a homecoming concert in London that is expected to net £1 million in box-office receipts and will be one of the most scrutinised shows of next year.”

“A free spirit who took up with Weston when she was 20 and he was 48, Charis (pronounced CARE-ess) Wilson posed for a number of his photographs, many of them nudes, but her involvement with his career went far beyond modeling. Wilson edited articles on photography by Weston and traveled extensively with him for his work.”

Says France’s first lady: “He offered me a role in his next movie. I don’t know for what character, but I said yes. I’m not an actress at all. Maybe I will be terrible. But, in my life, I cannot let such a chance go.”

“Few musicologists achieve true celebrity outside their specialist field. But the name of HC Robbins Landon … was known by many thousands of people beyond the scholarly community.  … It is no exaggeration to call him a titan, for Robbie, as he was universally known, was a giant in both physical and intellectual terms.”

After 30 years of getting up at 1:05 am to be ready for the first Morning Edition newscast at 5 am, the 75-year-old Kasell will depart the program on Dec. 30. He will keep his other job, as announcer/judge/scorekeeper on the NPR news quiz Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me.

“‘King of the pop-ups’ became Mr. Hunt’s moniker in professional circles. Mr. Hunt produced dozens of books for Walt Disney; a series based on Babar; and popular titles including ‘Haunted House’ and ‘The Human Body.’ A 1967 pop-up published by Random House, ‘Andy Warhol’s Index,’ came about at the suggestion of the artist. “

President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to transfer the remains of the writer Albert Camus to one of the most hallowed burial places in France, but the plan has run into opposition from the Nobel laureate’s son, who does not think his father would have wanted the honor.