Mostly with his old orchestras in San Francisco and Miami, but elsewhere as well, Michael Tilson Thomas is vigorously raising the baton, receiving the kind of rave reviews he has been well used to in a half-century-long career. - San Francisco Classical Voice
From the 1950s through the '70s she was star of TV comedies and game shows before reinventing herself, at 50, as a classical stage actress, winning awards for playing Falstaff, Juliet's Nurse, Mother Courage, and Gertrude Stein. (Oh, and she voiced Ursula in The Little Mermaid.) - The New York Times
As it turns out, there's an entire community of people captivated with defunct, abandoned or retired theme parks and attractions around the world. - NPR
"She weathered the ups and downs of 20th-century Chinese history, and thrived under different political realities. ... Her remarkable onscreen life spanned the Chinese Republican regime (and Mao's revolutions) right through to the modern commercial blockbuster period." - The Guardian
"Uh, no. I've resisted various things, one of which is the writerly idea that you have to write something profound about your termination. I have no intention of doing that, nor any compulsion to write some mock-heroic thing." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
"There are others out there, too, crisscrossing the country, living on the lower slopes, and sometimes on the summits, of show business. We are the last wandering minstrels, racing town to town, big clubs and small, piano player to piano player. (I had nine this year.)" - The New York Times
Oldenburg had his avant-garde moment. One of the three saints of the first rise of Popism in the United States, alongside Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, he was, in a way, the odd man out among them. - The New Yorker
"It is remarkable to consider that television — the medium for which I am most well-known — did not even exist when I was born, in 1922." - The New York Times
Mark Swed, who had dealings (not always pleasant) with both men, considers how, despite their antithetical demeanors, "while neither was quite what he seemed on the surface, each was possessed by the need to dig under surfaces. Each was an exposer extraordinaire." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
Over a five-decade career in theater, film, and television, he played a wide variety of men who were tough in one way or another, from Mafia boss Paul Cicero in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas to Henry Kissinger in Oliver Stone's Nixon. - Variety
Edward Feiner, as "the chief architect of the U.S. government, revolutionized the public image of countless federal agencies by hiring renowned architects to design hundreds of courthouses, government laboratories, border stations and office buildings." - The New York Times
Kennedy was a "British-born cookbook author and expatriate who became one of the world’s leading experts on authentic Mexican cuisine, influencing generations of chefs and deploring Americans’ fast-food experience of wan tacos and overseasoned enchiladas." - Washington Post
Kersey "founded the Hollywood Black Film Festival in 1998, with the goal of spotlighting independent films and filmmakers from the African diaspora." The festival was often called "The Black Sundance." - Los Angeles Times
“I think the big secret is never forgetting to wake up in the morning. It starts with getting out of bed,” Lear says. “But there isn’t a day when there aren’t stories to tell — exciting, relevant and of the moment stories.” - Variety
