Terry Gilliam: “While we were still faffing around, he had run all the way down the mountain, forded the river, run up the other side, into the camera truck, grabbed the right lens and here it was. We stuck it on the camera and got the shot.” - Variety
Stiller, who’s spent his entire life around Hollywood, says, "It’s kind of true that everybody will say yes and it doesn’t mean yes. It means no or let me think about it — more than ever, honestly. It’s a very tough environment now to get things made.” - The New York Times
Over the past few years, the British-born Harding has led dual, and often dueling, careers: conducting Mozart and Mahler symphonies one day, piloting commercial flights to Paris, Milan, Stockholm and Tunis the next. - The New York Times
He created 31 productions for the Vienna State Opera (some still in use) and 16 for the Met, attracting scorn from revisionists and admiration from traditionalists. "All the secrets of Wagner's Ring," he once said, "should be guessed by the audience or found by the audience." - AP
"(She was) a beauty queen, singer and wholesome pitchwoman for Florida orange juice whose crusade against gay rights in the 1970s transformed her into one of the most polarizing figures in American public life." - The Washington Post (MSN)
The very precise way he used his hand helped communicate to players across the arena of an orchestra exactly where they were in the bar and exactly what he wanted. He had also a fantastic ear and the ability to hear things with great precision, which also affects enormously the way people play. - The Guardian
It's not just that the baby of the family was the most reluctant to be a performer and the first to deliberately abandon the Marx Brothers act. "Zeppo was a ruthless gambler with deficiencies as a husband and father. Okay, he was a stinker, but a really interesting one." - The Arts Fuse (Boston)
Foreman’s idea of theater, born in opposition to the mainstream, was an acquired taste that some of the most rigorously inventive sensibilities couldn’t get enough of. - Los Angeles Times
"During an incredible run of success spanning the 1960s, Yarrow, Noel Paul Stookey and Mary Travers released six Billboard Top 10 singles, two No. 1 albums and won five Grammys. … (Their) impassioned harmonies transfixed millions as they lifted their voices in favor of civil rights and against war." - AP
After the war, Nietzsche was practically radioactive. In the newfound German Democratic Republic (GDR), where he was officially declared a “pioneer of fascism,” his writings were forbidden, while in West Germany he was shrouded in silence and suspicion. - Commonweal
"A dapper, soft-spoken architect who spent much of his career in academia, (he) was in some ways an unlikely architect of the World War II Memorial, a classically inspired plaza home to granite columns, bronze sculptures and a fountain, just east of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool." - The Washington Post (MSN)
"(He was) best known for his Booker Prize-nominated comic campus novels Small World and Nice Work. … His other celebrated works included Changing Places and The British Museum is Falling Down, about a poor student who is distracted while attempting to write a thesis." - BBC
Over the years, Gottfried Leibniz’s reputation continued to grow as more unpublished work came to light, some of which would make him the godfather of the digital age. But he will never quite live down Voltaire’s ridicule. - The New Yorker
Kidman, currently in the Oscars mix for Babygirl, says, “I’ve learned how to have a pretty stable, sensible life, which I know sounds boring, but my artistic life is anything but that.” - The Observer (UK)
The co-writer of I Heart Huckabees and the director of Life After Beth, which starred his wife, Aubrey Plaza, Baena “often elevated dark thematic elements with humor in his works.” - The New York Times
