Ashton Taylor got her start alongside Edward R. Murrow at CBS Radio, then broke into broadcast TV in Los Angeles. "One of her favorite interviews, she noted, was with Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer and Glenn Seaborg for a piece on atomic science." - The Hollywood Reporter
Though the French remain divided over the actor, long a symbol of France's movie industry (he's been in over 150 films), the mounting charges of sexual assault made against him are having roughly the same effect on the #MeToo movement in France that Harvey Weinstein had in the US. - Variety
From the estate of Lois Kirschenbaum, who spent decades attending opera and ballet and collecting autographs at Lincoln Center and elsewhere, "donations of $215,000 apiece have started to arrive, surprising groups like New York City Opera, American Ballet Theater, Carnegie Hall and the Public Theater." - The New York Times
"There was once a transgressive appeal to the Santos persona. … It was the inappropriateness of his high status that made him amusing. Now that he’s been brought low, viral fame supplies no tension for a Santos character. There is nothing transgressive about a grifter on Cameo." - The New York Times
Niblock made music from drones, microtones, and instruments such as cellos, bagpipes, hurdy-gurdies, and more. He remains best-known for the spare sounds he produced, but he also amassed a formidable oeuvre of photography, films, and videos. - ARTnews
"He presided over the newsroom as executive editor from 1994 to 2001, a period that coincided with the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and the chaotic presidential election night of 2000. … (His) tenure also coincided with the advent of digital media" and the launch of NYTimes.com. - The Washington Post (MSN)
It's been nearly six decades since then-toddler Jodie Foster played her first role. "Even minor celebrity is corrosive, and Foster’s fame is ridiculous. It has taken years of work, she says, not to be ruined by it." - The Guardian (UK)
Acocella, who wrote of dance, culture, and more for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books for decades, "was often mischievous and always delicious," says her editor at the NYRB. - The New York Times
Burrows grew frustrated with Broadway's lack of roles for Black women, and "took matters into her own hands as a solo artist. She received rave reviews for her 1968 Off Broadway show, Walk Together Children," and she mounted it more than 6,000 times across the world. - The New York Times
"(Her) effervescence and crackling husky voice — which she attributed to 'slightly twisted' vocal cords that permitted the air to hit 'the soprano and the contralto at the same time' — made her a distinctive presence in nearly 60 films, dozens of TV appearances and scores of theatrical productions." - The Washington Post (MSN)
"Her imaginative collages and assemblages have drawn on, not just borrowed — and sometimes edited — quotations by everyone from Milton to Kerouac and Gershwin, and also her recycling of such unexpected raw material as silverware, pressed flowers, seashells and discarded brooms." - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
Particularly known for playing villainesses, Murguía enjoyed a nearly 70-year career that spanned over 100 roles on film, television and the stage. She won three Ariel awards (Mexico's Oscars) and garnered three further nominations for supporting actress and was nominated five times for best leading actress. - The Guardian
A Lexington, Kentucky, native, McCann was a vocalist and self-taught pianist whose career dated back to the 1950s, when he won a singing contest while serving in the U.S. Navy and appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show." - AP
After his diagnosis, and during the pandemic, Andraes Staier continued sketching. “I didn’t start like, ‘I want to compose, and it will be done at some point,’” he said. “It was more of a way to question myself about how I understand music.” - The New York Times
He and his brother Gregory formed a highly successful tap duo (and played a similar duo in Coppola's film The Cotton Club) before starting separate careers in the '70s. Among Maurice's many achievements were two productions, in 1986 and 2006, which he conceived, choreographed, directed and starred in. - The Hollywood Reporter
