Category: people

“He wasn’t a household name, but his solid, broad, hang-dog screen face became a household image.” In addition to considerable theater and television work, Hingle played crucial roles in films from On the Waterfront and Splendor in the Grass to Norma Rae and The Grifters; he was best known as Commissioner Gordon in the first four Batman films.

“Richard Seaver, an editor, translator and publisher who defied censorship, societal prudishness and conventional literary standards to bring works by rabble-rousing authors like Samuel Beckett, Henry Miller, William Burroughs and the Marquis de Sade to American readers, died Tuesday at his home in Manhattan.”

“The Danish writer who built experimental poems, essays and novels around systematized and mathematical structures has died at age 73.”

“And here he is, 74 years old on an icy winter’s night, after a 10-hour rehearsal day in Bromley with a bunch of singers hanging on his every word, trying to convince me that nobody loves him, nobody cares.”

A mainstay of London’s early music scene for more than 25 years, Bonner performed and recorded with the Tallis Scholars (1,100 concerts), the Gabrieli Consort and Players, The Sixteen, the Taverner Consort, Collegium Vocale, the King’s Consort and many other groups.

“The Warwickshire church where William Shakespeare was buried may have to close because of safety fears, its vicar has warned. Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon is under-going multi-million pound restoration work. Reverend Martin Gorick said if a £400,000 project to fix 15th Century windows was not carried out the church could close in about five years’ time.”

“Granted 20 minutes to speak with Mr. Hurt… we somehow found ourselves talking to him – or listening to him talk – about the science of condensation (and how it informs his acting); the Baal Shem Tov, the mystical rabbi (and how Glenn Close reminds Mr. Hurt of him); and, occasionally, about his wide-ranging feelings about working on [the TV series] Damages.

Deborah Solomon: “Do you think you’re a plastic-surgery addict?” Rivers: “No. I think I’m in a business where you have to look good, and it’s totally youth-oriented.” Solomon: “I prefer the aging bohemian, Georgia O’Keeffe look.” Rivers: “That’s great if you’re Georgia O’Keeffe and each painting is $5 million and they’re sitting at your feet. But if Georgia O’Keeffe were waiting at a bus stop, nobody … would have pulled over and said, ‘Hey, baby, want a lift?'”

“Mr. Nagrin’s choreography and performing were craggily innovative, drawing on jazz movement and music as well as traditional modern dance and classical music in pieces that incorporated words and images well before mixed media became popular in American dance.”

“When I was little and waiting for my mother outside a shop, sometimes passers-by would say I was cursed by a witch. And that stays with you. But now I use that in my singing, so it’s actually a plus.… I am not here as some sort of role model. Of course, maybe at first people would come to see a freak. But they come a second time so then I know it’s for my singing.”