"Hart got his start telling jokes during amateur night at a local comedy club in his native Philadelphia. Today, his standup fills stadiums, cracking up audiences with stories about dating, marital strife, his daughter's first curse word, trying to play tough while standing just over 5', …" - NPR
The honor is conceived and presented by the Vaclav Havel Center in New York City, which advances the late playwright and Czech president's legacy in human rights and freedom of expression. Alaa Abdel-Fattah, the imprisoned Egyptian activist, was given the Disturbing the Peace Award to a Courageous Writer at Risk. - AP
In her new role, Wadsworth, 50, will oversee a $2.6 billion foundation that gives millions of dollars in grants each year to arts, journalism and community organizations. - Poynter
"A choreographer of complex maelstroms that moved at lightning speed and an uncommonly dedicated teacher who influenced generations of dancers," He impressed critics and audiences with his company, the Kevin Wynn Collection, but had a greater impact in his 30-plus years as a professor at Purchase College. - The New York Times
“I thought, Well, I wonder if you can build a business based exclusively on what you want to read,” he says, understatedly. “That led me to understand, I think correctly, that best sellers were overvalued and works that endured forever were undervalued.” - The New York Times
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)
