Category: people

“It was her audacity. The impatient kind that does not suffer long or suffer fools. The bitchy kind that beguiles gays and jolts the rest. The professional kind that makes every victory a hard-won struggle engendering wealth, power, enemies, a hard shell, and abiding loneliness.”

“He may not have been faster than a speeding bullet. He wasn’t more powerful than a locomotive. But he did part the Red Sea! And in America he became the inspiration for the country’s leading superhero, the star of Hollywood’s fifth-highest-grossing movie, and a model for the nation’s preeminent symbol, the Statue of Liberty.”

“I’m not sure I could go back to theatre work, although film work is more tiring,” says a weary-looking Maggie Smith, who was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. “I’m frightened to work in theatre now. I feel very uncertain.”

“Tracey Emin, who already has a home across the Channel, said in an interview that she was ‘very seriously considering leaving Britain’, adding: ‘I’m simply not willing to pay tax at 50% … I reckon it would mean me paying about 65p in every pound with tax, National Insurance and so on.'”

The veteran actor, performing on Broadway in a revival of the George S. Kaufman-Edna Ferber comedy The Royal Family, began slurring his lines shortly after his entrance. The curtain was brought down and an ambulance was called; Roberts is now reported to be in stable condition.

“In a world that celebrates tough-minded businessmen and their achievements, Mr. Mohn represented a type that Germans hold in particular affection: the kind-hearted capitalist who proved that profit and humanity were not mutually exclusive.”

“Before his death in 1924, Franz Kafka left his papers to Max Brod who rushed them out of Czechoslovakia ahead of the advancing Nazis. Now, the daughter of Brod’s late secretary wants to sell them to a German institute. But the legal battle in Israel has become Kafka-esque.”

She was a folksinger and activist who “fought South America’s dictators with her voice and became a giant of contemporary Latin American music,” so important to her countrymen that her body is lying in state at the National Congress building in Buenos Aires.

At a gathering of the Golden Days of Burlesque Historical Society: “La Savona, petite, elegant, and wearing a blond wig, sits with a magnifying glass, reading her newspaper notices and advertisements from the days when she was the Czech bombshell who escaped the Communists.”

“Costume designs, artwork, furniture and jewelry are among the items up for sale next Wednesday at Doyle New York auction house.” New York City Opera, where Sills was first a star and later general manager, is co-hosting the event.