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What is remarkable about Horton Foote’s career is its longevity. “A playwright’s career is usually 10 to 15 good years, even Tennessee Williams. It’s a specific period of time, like opera singers. But Horton gets better and better.

“(T)he author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ broke her silence briefly Monday” at a public ceremony in Alabama. “Well it’s better to be silent than to be a fool,” she said.

Reports that JK Rowling was at work on a detective novel were a joke. Rowling’s literary agent, Christopher Little, was keen to stress that the crime novel rumours were “unfounded”. “JK Rowling is taking a well-earned break following the English language publication of Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows and there are no firm plans as yet as to what her next book may be.”

Officials at an Italian hospital have revealed opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti is undergoing more tests related to his pancreatic cancer after the singer was admitted in early August.

“JK Rowling, who launched her career with stories scribbled in an Edinburgh cafe, has been spotted back in her old haunts with a notebook in hand and crime on her mind.”

Liedtke, a young choreographer and artistic director-designate of the Sydney Dance Company was struck by a garbage truck at Crows Nest Friday night…

A new PBS documentary about Rudolf Nureyev probes his lasting influence. “They thought ballet meant nothing to them, and suddenly they were spellbound by him. And this is what all the people who saw him in the flesh still say. I found this really interesting — that even now he remains a door into the world of ballet for people who are not otherwise drawn to it.”

“What makes the performance is the dialogue created between you and everybody around you spontaneously. And you have to interact with everybody up there, interacting and reacting, throwing out ideas. Jazz is a purely democratic music. It’s collective creativity where somebody introduces something and we all get a chance to say something about it.”

“His contribution to opera in Canada was unique and indispensable. He picked up the pieces from the indefinite deferral of the opera house planned in the early eighties and steadily built the quality of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra as he made the case for a proper opera house, appropriate to a G7 country in the 21st century.”

“Richard Bradshaw, the British conductor who waged what he often called ‘the thirty years war’ to build an opera house in Toronto, died Wednesday evening of an apparent heart attack at Pearson airport after returning from a holiday with his wife in the Maritimes.”