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“The ban was imposed after Golshifteh Farahani, 25, took part in Ridley Scott’s “Body of Lies” with Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe. Farahani is the first Iranian-based female actor to star in a Hollywood movie.”

“During the ’40s and ’50s his jazzy movie commentaries were published in The Nation, The New Republic and Commentary. Wordplayful and alert to form, these essays struck readers attuned to Swing as a kind of literary Be-bop. He sang of undersung filmmakers like Howard Hawks and Don Siegel at the same time fledgling French critics Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard were doing same in Cahiers du Cinema.”

“It would be hard to grow up in South Florida and have an interest in theater and not know who Jack Zink is. As the theater community has changed and become fuller, more diverse and robust, Jack has always been right at the center of it all.”

A London-born polymath who trained as a physician, Roget was best known in his day (1779-1869) for his well-respected treatises on the classification of plants and animals. He even laid the theoretical groundwork for the invention of the movies, having “discovered” the eye’s tendency to perceive a series of still images as being in motion.

“The constant remark made about Carter during the Tanglewood festival was that he is unique in music history. No major composer has ever been so vital for so long.”

Sir Salman Rushdie has accused his publisher of censorship at the same time as trying to prevent the release of a book that criticises him.

“Erb, who was distinguished professor emeritus of composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music, composed “Reconnaissance,” one of the first chamber works for live synthesizer and acoustic instruments. It had its premiere in New York in 1967 with Robert Moog, a pioneer of the synthesizer, playing that instrument.”

The myth of Kafka is “all penniless failure and tubercular despair, struggle and saintliness. The man is more dashing. He held a high-paying job, visited brothels and enjoyed some popularity, romantic liaisons and literary admirers in his lifetime. Oh, yes, and smut.”

L. Rust Hills, a staunch advocate of contemporary American literature who, as Esquire’s curmudgeonly fiction editor in three separate stints from the 1950s through the 1990s, published original works by scores of the country’s finest writers, died on Tuesday in Belfast, Me.