"(A) 53-year-old (set) decorator alleges that Depardieu grabbed her and kneaded her waist, stomach and breasts during filming for Les Volets verts, or The Green Shutters, lawyer Carine Durrieu Diebolt said Monday. Other people intervened to stop him, the lawyer added." - AP
Felicia “Snoop” Pearson got her acting start on The Wire after she introduced herself to actor Michael K. Williams at a nightclub, a chance that “kick-started Pearson’s reign as one of television’s most harrowing characters." - The New York Times
Lily Gladstone, who may win Best Actress at the Oscars, isn’t new to Hollywood, but this is a different level. “After more than two decades of acting, she has become a star, a role model, a potential engine of change. It’s a lot for anyone.” - Washington Post
Mitchell, who was diagnosed with ALS five and a half years ago, “played three roles in three seasons on Star Trek: Discovery. The last character, Aurelio, who used a hoverchair, was created to reflect the actor’s need for a wheelchair." - MSN (Los Angeles Times)
Shahani "was known for his formalist style of filmmaking and his landmark films include Tarang (1984), Khayal Gatha (1989) and Kasba (1990).” He also worked hard to help India archive and restore films via the Film Heritage Foundation. - Variety
This actor we all know so well has done something that, for him, is entirely new - at 80 years old. “Rather than the banal, De Niro’s Hale embodies what you might call the congeniality of evil.” - Slate
Paxton "helped radically upend ideas about dance as a member of the 1960s collective Judson Dance Theater in New York City, and ... developed contact improvisation, a movement form that is now practiced around the world." - The New York Times
Acocella’s attention is fixed first on the lives of her readers. She doesn’t neglect to tell us a writer’s best book and is never above saying when someone was born. She has always surveyed the literature, read the footnotes, seen the painting in real life; the reader can trust her. - The New York Times
Ms. Blouin plowed resources into an art news site, ArtInfo, staffing it with young journalists. She also moved into philanthropy with the founding of the Louise T. Blouin Foundation, an international nonprofit organization. - The New York Times
Ksenia Karelina (also known as Ksenia Khavana), a 33-year-old native of Yekaterinburg who holds both Russian and US citizenship, had been visiting her hometown since early January. Her alleged act of treason: donating $58 to a Ukrainian charity. - NBC News
"At a certain point, the survival tool, which has kept you safe and kept you warm, which has kept you with your family, it’s allowed you to exist in the world — you gotta cut that fucking thing off," she said. "You gotta cut that thing off, because it’s killing you." - The Atlantic
Following the death of his wife last month, the 81-year-old pop legend has had two co-conservators appointed. He's described in court documents as "unable to properly provide for his or her personal needs for physical health, food, clothing, or shelter … (He) does not have the capacity to give informed consent." - The Guardian
"I had known Thelma Golden for a decade before I fully absorbed the critical role she had played, and continues to play, in desegregating the art world." - The New Yorker
The basis of the appeal is that the trial judge should not have allowed testimony from three other women whose alleged assaults by Weinstein weren't at issue in this case. The justices appeared divided; Weinstein didn't appear at all, remaining at the state prison instead. - AP
