"McGrath played the friendly neighbor Bob Johnson, serving as a Sesame Street mainstay across five decades and 47 seasons of broadcast television. His final series appearance came in 2017, but McGrath did not step away from his association with the series." - Variety
Mayer "rejected formalism for the avant-garde. She expanded the parameters of poetry by incorporating other elements into her work, including photography, collage, letters from friends, audio recordings and personal datebooks." - The New York Times
Reichert, a documentarian, said, "I always wanted to understand how people worked because I often thought I was like a Martian. I was intensely curious about people because I felt so different from everybody else." - Washington Post
Friends since they met as 10 and 11-year-olds at prep school in 1971, the actor and writer-director "have just in the last few years realized their long-held desire to collaborate on feature films." - AOL (Los Angeles Times)
Kominsky-Crumb "was known for work that was not only autobiographical but often bracingly sexual — focusing on her insecurities — and explicit." - Los Angeles Times
Emma Corrin: "It’s hard to be discovering something in yourself at the same time you’re navigating an industry that demands a lot of you." - The New York Times
The writer of Sweat and the most-produced play of this year, Clyde's, had three productions in New York this year. She says, "The mindfulness and yoga that I practiced during the pandemic really prepared me to deal with juggling three big shows without feeling overwhelmed." - Los Angeles Times
Well, let's be honest: He just (finally) became king. Britain is not having the popular series' narrative anymore. (Also ... he's played by Dominic West.) - The New York Times
He was famous for his posts at the Riverside Church and the Crystal Cathedral, but he was most admired among colleagues for quickly figuring out how to make unfamiliar organs sound their best — so he was regularly invited to inaugurate new instruments, as at Walt Disney Concert Hall. - The New York Times
Since Mamet’s 2008 essay in The Village Voice, “Why I Am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal,” he has been subject to a towering wave of enmity from the community to which he has devoted his life. - Tablet Magazine
Hakeem Jeffries co-sponsored the Music Modernization Act, the most important copyright law passed in decades, as well as the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2020, a.k.a. the CASE Act. - Billboard
"The tragic irony of Bourdain's life and death is that the same interior darkness he succumbed to enabled the alchemy that he performed, again and again, on television: showing us three-dimensional human beings doing their best against often insurmountable odds." - The Atlantic
Feingold’s greatness rested in the agility of his focus. He had the ability to take an aerial view of the work under consideration. But then, with breathtaking swiftness, he would zoom in for a closeup, discussing the production with meticulous visual detail and sensitivity to the choices.
Dubbed "the Black Marilyn Monroe," she was a huge sensation in the 1950s — until overwork and Seventh-Day Adventist guilt (over her sexy persona) drove her to leave the stage for mission work, only to re-train and re-emerge as a classical soprano and, ultimately, return to nightclub performing. - MSN (The Washington Post)
