"Sometimes, when they'll cast these wonderfully handsome men as Peter Parker - and, you know, some fans will complain like, that's not what Peter Parker looks like. But to be honest, that's how John Romita drew him." - NPR
Hamilton wrote four books of poetry, but "her most discussed book was The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle, which used letters to explore a controversial element of Mr. Lowell’s career." - The New York Times
Clark was "a writer of popular suspense novels who infused the corpses-and-clues genre with doses of dark humor, while also teaming up with her mother, famed mystery author Mary Higgins Clark." - Washington Post
"It was the greatest privilege of my career. Glenda was overly fearless as a performer, and overly fearless as a woman. To come out and restart a career in your 80s, it was phenomenal. I don’t know if anyone else has ever had the passion and bravery."- The Guardian (UK)
His leak of the papers "led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling on press freedoms and enraged the Nixon administration — serving as the catalyst for a series of White House-directed burglaries and 'dirty tricks' that snowballed into the Watergate scandal." - Washington Post
"An air of mystery surrounded stories of Gilberto possibly living in Philadelphia for decades. Was she seen at the Reading Terminal Market? At Rustic Music in Center City? ... (She abandoned) stardom to live anonymously in a city where she had a history reaching back nearly six decades." - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Gottlieb, who died on Wednesday, at the age of ninety-two, may have been the most important book editor of his time. Caro was just one of hundreds of authors he ministered to. Gottlieb had passions––among them literature, ballet, music, and the movies––and those passions were reflected in his long list of authors. - The New Yorker
"It's a time in which a lot of people are very afraid that if they support me, they will be canceled. But I know that there are people right now who are ready to hire me the moment I am cleared of these (sexual assault) charges in London." - Zeit Magazine (Germany)
"Hollywood showered her with admiration and two best actress Oscars. But Jackson was not easily flattered. Famously prickly, her view of Tinseltown often bordered on contempt. ... And, at the height of her acting power, she gave it all up for a career in politics." - BBC
For three decades at the publishing houses Simon & Schuster and Knopf, he turned hundreds of manuscripts into well-received books, many of which sold millions of copies, won awards and made authors wealthy and famous. Colleagues called him incisive but sensitive to writers’ eggshell egos. - The New York Times
"Such luminaries (as Godard and Truffaut) acknowledged him as a member in good standing in what amounted to one of cinema history's most exclusive clubs, collectively committed to reinventing the art form by upending conventional notions of what a movie could be." - The New York Times
"(His) lyrical and often brutally violent novels propelled him to the first ranks of American fiction, immersing readers in scenes of savagery, despair and occasional tenderness in the backwoods of Tennessee, the deserts of the Southwest and the ashen desolation of a postapocalyptic world." - Detroit News (The Washington Post)
The 71-year-old star of the films Hair, Prince of the City, Once Upon a Time in America, and The Eagle Has Landed and the TV series Everwood collided with a car making a left turn across his lane on a rural Vermont road. - AP
He served as music director of the North Carolina Symphony in Raleigh for two decades (1982-2003) and of the Canton Symphony in Ohio for over four decades (1980-2023) and was for 12 years on the faculty of the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas. - Ideastream Public Media (Cleveland)
Pike: "This idea that it’s no longer enough to be healthy and we have to be 'well' is something that needs to be interrogated. Yet it’s so seductive because it’s in pursuit of things that people are ashamed to want, like youth, beauty and fitness." - The Observer (UK)
