Isabelle Adjani — who has won five Best Actress César awards and gotten two Oscar nominations (in French-language films, no less) — was fined €250,000 and given a suspended two-year prison sentence for evading taxes by fraudulently claiming residence in Portugal and arguing that a €2,000,000 gift was only a loan. - Variety
The oil painting by Chicago artist Shawn Michael Warren presents the iconic talk show host-turned-media mogul in virtuosic detail, wearing a dramatic purple dress with a full skirt and standing amid a greenscape on the grounds of her California home. - Hyperallergic
In a 2019 Facebook post, Emmanuelle Debever alleged that Depardieu groped her on the set of Andrzej Wajda's 1982 film Danton. On Nov. 29, she left a note for her partner in her Paris apartment and jumped into the Seine; she was rescued but died in hospital on Dec. 7. - Variety
"The 76-year-old singer (was) to perform in Bologna but she cancelled the concert after suffering what the city’s Teatro Duse described as a 'sudden illness'. She underwent checks at a hospital, (and) a statement from health authorities in Bologna said Smith had been discharged and was in good health." - The Guardian
"Among the most influential and progressive leaders in American opera, … (he maintained) a commitment to living composers through world and American premieres. He believed opera was a theatrical medium as much as a musical one and had a devotion to advancing the careers of promising young singers." - Santa Fe New Mexican
He had a breakout role in the 1989 Civil War epic Glory and went on to television stardom in both drama (Homicide: Life on the Street) and comedy (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), winning two Emmys and 11 nominations. In addition, he was an admired Shakespearean actor at New York's Public Theater. - AP
Panetta, who was also a "vital presence" in Pina Bausch's ballet company in Germany, "adapted the rigor of classical ballet to promote healthy alignment rather than forcing the body into balletic extremes." - The New York Times
The person who prompted the most trending queries – i.e., had the highest spike in traffic over a sustained period in 2023 as compared to 2022 – was… - Deadline
Kilroy was praised "for his role in modernising Irish theatre since his 1968 breakthrough play, The Death and Resurrection of Mr Roche," which included a gay character. - Irish Times
From the start of his academic career, no part of his scientific work would show up in his political activism, while no trace of his activism would be detectable in his science. Among the inevitable outcomes was a conception of language utterly divorced from what most of us mean by that term. - Aeon
"Long before many others did so, Molnár embraced computers, which she used to create spare, minimalist drawings that were made according to sets of rules that she engineered. These drawings flirt with the points where order breaks down into chaos and chaos coheres into order." - ARTnews
Hélène Darras filed a complaint with law enforcement in Paris alleging that the veteran actor repeatedly groped her when she was an extra on the set of the 2007 film Disco. Depardieu is already under indictment for the alleged rape of actress Charlotte Arnould, a charge filed in 2018. - Variety
