"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
"(His) extraordinary acting career took him from Laurence Olivier’s nascent National Theatre to screen roles in The Singing Detective and the Harry Potter films. … admired by generations of fellow actors, he excelled in plays by Pinter, Beckett and Ayckbourn." - The Guardian
"For a start, the boundary between the emperor and his acting parts was a significantly blurry one. … The awful black hole at the centre of Roman autocracy was that it was always as hard to tell an emperor from an actor as it can sometimes be for us." - The Guardian
As the mysterious secret agent Ilya Kuryakin on Man From U.N.C.L.E., the Scottish character actor became a major American TV star and teen heartthrob. 35 years later, he attracted a new generation of fans as medical examiner Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard on NCIS. - AP
“David would yell at and berate the people he found responsible for executing his vision. Only senior leadership would be directly bullied by him, but they would offload that anxiety on the rest of us." - Artnet
"Anil Kapoor (filed suit) because of the large number of morphed videos and emojis bearing his likeness going around as well as his iconic phrase 'jhakaas', first used in 1985 film Yudh. The phrase, which translates roughly as ‘awesome’ or ‘wicked,’ is now protected by the court order." - Variety
Last week, a public database cataloging all those family objects—more than 8,000 of them—went live. The unparalleled collection has been assembled by the Amherst-based Emily Dickinson Museum and stored in an undisclosed warehouse in Western Massachusetts. - The Atlantic
"The (61-year-old) singer withdrew this summer from the Bayreuth Festival, where he was scheduled to perform (three different leading roles). He said he made the announcement after the Festival ended last week because 'I did not wish anything to cloud this year's achievements.'" - AP
"(He) sold an estimated 50 million albums worldwide, becoming a staple of easy-listening charts while cultivating a sunny and often sentimental folk-pop sound. Although he was considered a one-hit wonder ('The Last Farewell') in the United States, he had a devoted fan base across Europe." - MSN (The Washington Post)
Not only have promoters postponed the remainder of his current standup tour, his agent and publisher have dropped him. Perhaps even more damaging, YouTube has cut him off from income from his videos on the platform, where he has 6.6 million subscribers. - AP
McGrath, who was also nominated for his work in Spamalot, "was one of those stage actors who might rarely be recognized on the street yet worked steadily for decades, drawing good notices throughout." - The New York Times
On Saturday, in a British news investigation, "numerous women allege that they were sexually assaulted by Brand between 2006 and 2013, during which time he rose from eccentric British TV personality to debauched Hollywood star." - Los Angeles Times
Representative Boebert apologized for the behavior (mutual crotch groping with her date, apparently) that got her ejected from a performance of Beetlejuice. - The New York Times
"One hundred and fifty years ago this week, holed up at his family's farm in the Ardennes, 19-year-old Arthur Rimbaud … had reached the end of a wildly chaotic four years of dangerous excess that also encompassed one of the greatest, shortest and most precocious literary careers in history." - The New European
Botero’s paintings of Colombian governmental officials and clergy are now known the world over. He said that when he first started making them, in the 1950s, there wasn’t much other art like it in his home country, where European modernist painting was not widely seen at the time. - ARTnews
