As a diva, Streisand has consistently defied instructions not to do something by doubling up her efforts. For example, at the start of her career when she was auditioning for record labels, one of the executives said she had a nice voice but was “too ethnic”. - The Conversation
He brought classical music into the lives of tens of thousands of young people and was credited with diversifying the ranks of symphony orchestras across the United States. - Washington Post
Parker "helped expand the two-dimensional portrayals of vampires and witches seen in old Hollywood B-movies" on Dark Shadows, a popular Gothic soap opera. - The New York Times
"He joined NPR in 1980 and filed more than 3,000 stories. … During more than three decades as a reporter and an editor, his work spanned the world and made him an eyewitness to some of the most momentous events in modern history." - NPR
It turns out that Bradley Cooper is one of those all in, passionate, driven, focused people, not unlike Leonard Bernstein. And we didn’t know it at the beginning at all. - BachTrack
Citing "inconsistencies and weaknesses in her evidence," a London magistrate dismissed the case brought by BBC presenter Teddy Edwardes against the Oscar-winning screenwriter over an August 2022 altercation in a nightclub. (She says he twisted her wrist; she then hit him in the head, causing brain injury.) - The Hollywood Reporter
"Woodbury and her artistic partner, Shirley Ririe, formed Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in 1964, when they both taught dance at the University of Utah. … Woodbury and Ririe — along with Repertory Dance Theatre’s Linda Smith and Ballet West’s Bené Arnold — are credited with giving birth to professional dance in Utah." - The Salt Lake Tribune
Garrett worked at Knopf, "initially as an editor and special assistant to Alfred Knopf himself, who had a strong devotion to publishing history books. At first she steered his projects to completion, but she soon began acquiring books on her own." - The New York Times
"The 22-second ad, posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, ... used real footage of Johansson to generate a fake image and dialogue." - The Guardian (UK)
"(The) esteemed Soviet-born conductor rebuilt the once-storied St. Petersburg Philharmonic after the collapse of communism and led the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for seven inspired years at the turn of the 21st century." - MSN (The Washington Post)
One of his hallmark offerings at Harvard was a class called Rep Ideal, in which he held forth on how a permanent company of actors could forge a bond between the institution and a community. Nothing else, he said, could create such a flexible acting instrument. - The New Yorker
"A movie star in the 1980s (Dune, Blade Runner, No Way Out), Young saw her career derailed by the mid-1990s. She refused to play certain Hollywood games … (and) played other games too enthusiastically. … (The industry) had branded her as volatile, difficult, even crazy." - The New York Times
“He was also born at the right time to be a multimedia superstar. Louis was there for acoustic recordings in 1923. After accompanying silent movies, he then made pioneering appearances in film, radio, and television. In many cases, he was the first African American to have featured billing in these new industries. - The Nation
"It comes as more of one that Winkler is, by his own admission, constantly scared, easily wounded, riddled with self-doubt, perpetually self-involved, childish, cheap, unforgiving and petty. … Winkler doesn’t so much nurse a grudge as midwives one — if necessary, for eternity." - MSN (The Washington Post)
