Category: people

“Architects in New York . . . were kind of attracted to me as long as I was subordinate to them. As soon as I came out with work that got attention, there was kind of a backlash from them. . . . They think I’m an ‘aw shucks’ guy and then I turn out to be every bit as ambitious as they are.”

“His international manager, however, has said Carreras would perform opera again if the right production came up. For the next few years, though, he will focus on concerts and touring.”

“[T]he visionary Brazilian theatre director and dramatist, who has died aged 78, spent his life proving that you didn’t have to wait until ‘after the revolution’ for worthwhile social improvements – you could use theatre to make radical changes in the here and now.”

“Cohn repped thesps and filmmakers including Meryl Streep, Jackie Gleason, Woody Allen, Vanessa Redgrave, Susan Sarandon, Nora Ephron, Robert Altman, Paul Newman, Mike Nichols and Sigourney Weaver. His influence extended to Broadway and other fields, and his clients also included Bob Fosse, Arthur Miller, Arthur Penn, Kander and Ebb, Peter Maas and E.L. Doctorow.”

“Authorities have scaled down their search for an award-winning U.S. poet who disappeared while hiking up a volcano on a remote Japanese island because their efforts have yielded no clues for more than a week, police said Wednesday. University of Wyoming assistant professor Craig Arnold, 41, was reported missing April 27….”

“[He] created so much joy and laughter on the set that you couldn’t get your work done,” said frequent colleague Mel Brooks. “So every time I made a movie with Dom, I would plan another two days on the schedule just for laughter.”

“[I]n the past 14 months he has retreated into almost total absence from the music world as performances of his work have come and gone… [H]e still hasn’t heard [his latest] disc, unable to focus his mind or summon the energy. And, lying on a sofa with his long, thin legs crooked like a pietà (he has always looked like Jesus, on or off the Cross), he is barely able to string words together, still less write.”

“Philippe de Montebello, former chief of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, testified yesterday that late philanthropist Brooke Astor promised to give the museum a painting by American Impressionist Childe Hassam.” De Montebello was testifying “as a prosecution witness in the trial of Astor’s son Anthony Marshall,” who “told his mother that she was running out of money to get her to sell the Hassam work, according to the prosecution.”

“Having played Elizabeth I and Victoria, she has come to be regarded almost as the embodiment of the Queen’s English. But when the Daily Telegraph’s theatre critic, Charles Spencer, crossed Dame Judi Dench with a critical review, he discovered her skills in language more fit for the groundlings.”

“Marilyn French, a writer and feminist scholar whose provocative 1977 novel ‘The Women’s Room’ captured the frustration and fury of a generation of women fed up with society’s traditional conceptions of their roles, died Saturday at a hospital in New York City.”