The Oscar-winning screenwriter of Milk and creator of the recent TV miniseries Under the Banner of Heaven didn't reveal the nature of the injury, which happened a month ago, but wrote that "this has been a challenging, frightening time ... and now I understand the road back will be long." - Variety
Is that why people called his music “spiritual jazz?” Because it made us feel like we were being released from the physical world? Sanders — who died in Los Angeles on Saturday at 81 — often described his work as a search for something that couldn’t be found. - Washington Post
"The Ratched character had been softened in the script compared to Kesey’s original, and Fletcher gave a rather subtle performance, often conveying the character’s emotions simply through facial expressions, which is why she deserved her Oscar." - Variety
Hiller opened her own studio in 1995, becoming as force as a woodworker - and as a writer of both popular and scholarly articles about the history of the art. - The New York Times
"She embodies both the magician and the spell, and part of the particular wonder of reading her is the knowledge that no one else has ever written like that before nor will again. She seemed to see so clearly." - The New York Times
Mr. Garcia, 33, and Mr. Blanco, 26, have both dedicated their lives to transforming themselves into the same pop star. But for all the surface similarities, the two men’s lives are otherwise a study in sharp contrasts. - The New York Times
The tremendous success of her Thomas Cromwell trilogy (Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Mirror and the Light) led to a reassessment of her other work (17 books in total, plus numerous stories and essays) that established her reputation of one of this century's greatest English-language novelists. - The Guardian
"The material includes four unpublished short stories, drafts of manuscripts, hundreds of photographs, bundles of correspondence and boxes of personal effects that experts say are bound to reshape public and scholarly perception of an artist whose life and work defined an era." - The New York Times
"Dietrich learnt from von Sternberg exactly how lighting could accentuate every hollow and curve in her face.... She would sometimes refer to herself in the third person, as if her persona were a lifelong portrait she might layer and finesse, year on year." - Psyche
Godard understood film history as a text to be referenced, criticized, and revised. Entering into the field with a fully developed sense of the medium’s evolution, he was the first filmmaker to recognize that cinema’s classic period was over and a new era of a new kind of movie and a new type of filmmaker had begun. - The...
A member of the Stolen Generation, he struggled repeatedly with crime and addition earlier in his adult life; he also founded Australia's first Aboriginal theatre company and appeared in numerous plays and films, including The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and Blackfellas. - The New York Times
"(He was) a founder of the so-called Group of 5, norm-shattering Swiss directors who helped drive a new form of national cinema. His best-known films tended toward a stark neorealism, laced with incisive dialogue and an arid wit, and often centered on characters struggling against conformity." - The New York Times
His take on contemporary culture made him seem antique. “We are still living in the aftermath,” he wrote in 1982, “of the insidious assault on the mind that was one of the most repulsive features of the radical movement of the Sixties.” - City Journal
"While I don’t think of myself as someone who would have judged by appearances much before Bell’s palsy, it has given me a greater empathy for people who might have a mismatch between the outward and the inward," Ruhl says - and it's changed how she sees actors. - The Guardian (UK)
Russell told Business Media News he envisioned it as a business news show that would appeal to a mass audience, not just executives and investors. The show is currently heard by more than 12 million listeners weekly on more than 800 public radio stations nationwide. - Inside Radio
