Category: people

Peter Garrett of the disbanded Australian rock group Midnight Oil is part of the new government. “With his wild dancing and strident voice, Garrett was one of Australia’s most recognizable singers until his band broke up in 2002, after belting out politically charged hits for more than 25 years.”

“Instead, the Nobel foundation will present the £766,000 prize to the 87-year-old British writer in London, after medical advisers told her not to travel.”

The acclaimed director says it was the only way he could make his work. “I even stole money from my family to give to (fellow French director Jacques) Rivette for his first film. I pinched money to be able to see films and to make films,”

“Gudrun Wagner, wife of Bayreuth Opera Festival director Wolfgang Wagner and a key partner in helping him stage the annual event, died Wednesday, officials said. She was 63.” Her death was a surprise, and will rekindle debate over who will eventually take over the helm of Bayreuth.

“A three-judge panel dismissed the case Tuesday against former J. Paul Getty Museum curator Marion True, saying that the period of limitations for the charges has expired.”

Nicoletta Mantovani filed the lawsuit last month after warning that speculation about the state of her marriage to Pavarotti would not be tolerated.

Nobel-winning writer Günter Grass has filed a lawsuit against the publisher of his biography for claiming that he voluntarily joined the elite Nazi force, the Waffen-SS.

” He has been a champion for the values of pluralism and pragmatism, for a mode of thought that balances cold reason with feeling and interest, and for a kind of scholarship that seeks connections across disciplinary boundaries.”

“Mr. Roche’s translations of Greek and Latin works, published in the Signet Classics series and by New American Library, have long been familiar to students in the United States and in Britain. He was also known for his three-decade-long relationship with the prominent English painter Duncan Grant, a founder of the charmed, unorthodox Bloomsbury circle.”

“With the publication of A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 — the third of a projected four-volume chronicle of the artist’s life, times and artistic progress — we have a fresh reminder of just how massive a project [Picasso biographer John Richardson] constructed for himself.”