He spent his career at the Paris Opera Ballet, first as a dancer and then as historian, searching the company archives and reconstructing old ballets as well as choreographing new ones. He became known worldwide for arranging Rudolf Nureyev's dramatic airport escape from his KGB handlers and defection. - BBC
Synonymous with defining styles of the era, including the miniskirt and hot pants, her colorful and unashamedly sexy clothes for a drastically changing world were adored as much by celebrities like Twiggy and Audrey Hepburn as they were by young girls on the street with new feelings of freedom. - The New York Times
"Ms. Perry, a prolific writer who sold more than 26 million books worldwide, had already become well established as a novelist when her sinister past was exposed in 1994, (in connection with) the release of Peter Jackson's film Heavenly Creatures." - MSN (The Washington Post)
"The accusations were made by female actors, make-up artists and production staff, some of whom spoke on the basis of anonymity, and allegedly occurred during the filming of 11 films released between 2004 and 2022 … Depardieu (is) already indicted on rape and sexual assault charges in a 2018 case." - Variety
"Her choreographic career, which spanned more than five decades and produced more than 125 dances, set her apart from her postmodern contemporaries. 'I'm not an abstractionist,' she (once said). ' great deal of my work has a sense of celebration.'" - The New York Times
"Few of the magazine's self-billed 'Usual Gang of Idiots' contributed as much — and as dependably — as the impish, bearded cartoonist. For decades, virtually every issue featured new material by Jaffee," most famously his Fold-Ins and Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions. - AP
Seventy years later, the man who attacked Jascha Heifetz has not been identified. A faction called Han oar Haivri (or Hebrew Youth), later linked to several right-wing extremist groups, took responsibility, but no one has ever been held accountable. - The New York Times
After years of being thought of as rock 'n' roll adjacent,"it’s only now, at the improbable age of 81, that Ann-Margret is getting the chance to assert herself as a full-on rock ’n’ roll goddess — if a winking one." - The New York Times
María Mercedes Coroy may be a star of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, but "the day after filming her final scene in Los Angeles, headed home to Santa María de Jesús, a Kaqchikel Maya town of about 22,000 at the base of a volcano in Guatemala." - The New York Times
"On Monday April 3rd, I performed on stage for 2000 people while having a miscarriage. I knew it was happening. … If it had been our first loss, or even our second, I likely wouldn't have been able to go on." - Yahoo!
"It's hard to find anywhere in the food universe that wasn't touched by (her) pen or panache. She helped shape modern food writing as a mix of storytelling, history and a worldly palate. Her relentlessly curious tastes were also part of a major shift in American eating." - MSN (The Washington Post)
"From a very early age Kusama has suffered from severe panic attacks and hallucinations, episodes during which pumpkins might talk to her, which is nice, or a sense that an entire universe of patterns was eliminating her, which is not." - Literary Hub
"How about this woman we create isn't me, but she had that same stuff happen to her in the past and she took a different path to me as an adult, so we get to do whatever we want." - The Guardian
"(His gift was) to elevate the formulaic celebrity profile with humor, a literary voice and the polish of a short story. That was the only way Mr. Zehme … could accept his fate performing what many writers consider one of the lowest forms of journalism." - MSN (The Washington Post)
In the early 1960s, Lynne Desroches-Noblecourt’s friendships and grit proved essential to the success of her career’s crowning achievement: the seemingly quixotic campaign to save from destruction the temples, sculptures and artifacts at Abu Simbel, near Egypt’s border with Sudan. - Washington Post
