"He wakes up every day at 6 a.m., … checks his emails, and reads (several) newspapers before beginning his writing at 8 a.m. on the dot. He also jots down his daily schedule on a file card, crosses off each of his tasks when completed and then stores the card away." - CNN
Batiste was a "pyrotechnic" drummer, "the "whose furious style and genre-busting approach provided the rhythmic pulse for bands like the Meters and Vida Blue and musical artists like Harry Connick Jr." - The New York Times
Davies, who won numerous awards with his semi-autobiographical work as well as the adaptation of Edith Wharton's House of Mirth, was working on a new film at the time of his death. - The Observer (UK)
"Sometimes she despised the woman who bullied, rubbished, physically abused and neglected her. At other times she adored the woman who could be fun, loving and nurturing. And she was always in awe of the inspirational artist and activist. … Now, 20 years since Nina died, Lisa regards herself as keeper of the flame." - The Guardian
The assault took place in 1995 after a business dinner between the producer and the actress. She is suing CAA, then her agency, for negligence and breach of fiduciary duty, and Miramax (Weinstein's company) and Disney (which owned Miramax at the time) for negligent supervision and retention." - Variety
"British greeting card company Full Colour Black and its owner Andrew Gallagher have filed a libel claim against anonymous artist Banksy in the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court over an Instagram post the British artist made in November 2022." The lawsuit could potentially require him to be named. - Artnet
He went from self-publishing a renegade gay-oriented opera fanzine, mimeographed and distributed by hand to — under the identity La Cieca — operating what The New York Times called "the most essential blog in opera," as well as reviewing more formally for several magazines and the New York Post and Observer. - OperaWire
"(He) was a pianist of arresting insight, majestic technique, and transfiguring grace. In his prime, he was compared with 20th-century luminaries such as Maurizio Pollini and Alfred Brendel. But (he) ultimately chose a quieter path devoted principally to the study and teaching of his art." - MSN (The Boston Globe)
"(He started) the nationally known alternative weekly newspaper with two partners" — editor Dan Wolf and writer Norman Mailer, who stormed off after a few months — "in 1955 and remained its publisher until new ownership dismissed him 19 years later." - The New York Times
After earning her doctorate in music composition, she wrote "more than a hundred compositions in a seven-decade career, including seven operas, many orchestral works and a large body of chamber music." - The New York Times
He's 90. One of his costars (John Standing) is 89; the other (Glenda Jackson) has died. "No wonder tempted them from retirement: meaty roles dry up as you approach 100." - The Guardian (UK)
"There's nothing the right could do that could meaningfully affect Swift. She has an incredibly devoted fanbase, a sold-out tour that lasts until November 2024, which again, is going to make her a billionaire, and maybe even has a hot new boyfriend." - Salon
"She now inspires the kind of devotion that might include pilgrimages to her gravesite — had her body not wound up in an unmarked grave in New York City’s potter’s field, on Hart Island off the coast of the Bronx." Should there be a monument there, or elsewhere in New York? - The New York Times
