He could easily have been one of the cohort of mainstream New York stage actors who pay their bills with guest spots in TV series, but he was drawn to the experimental and socially conscious work being made in downtown Manhattan, co-founding two key theater companies. - The New York Times
Fuller had devoted his career to predicting the impact of technology, but he saw nothing special in Apple: “I remember him saying that he thought the computer was a toy.” - Fast Company
In the mid-1960s, with his daily morning show at New York's WBAI, Josephson helped invent freeform radio. In the 1980s, he pioneered the job of independent public radio producer, bringing to the air shows like Bob & Ray, Jazz From Lincoln Center, Alec Baldwin's Here's the Thing, ... - MSN (The Washington Post)
In the late 1970s, artists were settling, illegally, in vacated factory space in the Lower Manhattan neighborhood. Marson, an architect and developer, spotted a provision in zoning regulations that could render the lofts legal — and he spent years fighting the city to make that provision stick. - The New York Times
Mostly with his old orchestras in San Francisco and Miami, but elsewhere as well, Michael Tilson Thomas is vigorously raising the baton, receiving the kind of rave reviews he has been well used to in a half-century-long career. - San Francisco Classical Voice
From the 1950s through the '70s she was star of TV comedies and game shows before reinventing herself, at 50, as a classical stage actress, winning awards for playing Falstaff, Juliet's Nurse, Mother Courage, and Gertrude Stein. (Oh, and she voiced Ursula in The Little Mermaid.) - The New York Times
As it turns out, there's an entire community of people captivated with defunct, abandoned or retired theme parks and attractions around the world. - NPR
"She weathered the ups and downs of 20th-century Chinese history, and thrived under different political realities. ... Her remarkable onscreen life spanned the Chinese Republican regime (and Mao's revolutions) right through to the modern commercial blockbuster period." - The Guardian
"Uh, no. I've resisted various things, one of which is the writerly idea that you have to write something profound about your termination. I have no intention of doing that, nor any compulsion to write some mock-heroic thing." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
"There are others out there, too, crisscrossing the country, living on the lower slopes, and sometimes on the summits, of show business. We are the last wandering minstrels, racing town to town, big clubs and small, piano player to piano player. (I had nine this year.)" - The New York Times
Oldenburg had his avant-garde moment. One of the three saints of the first rise of Popism in the United States, alongside Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, he was, in a way, the odd man out among them. - The New Yorker
"It is remarkable to consider that television — the medium for which I am most well-known — did not even exist when I was born, in 1922." - The New York Times
Mark Swed, who had dealings (not always pleasant) with both men, considers how, despite their antithetical demeanors, "while neither was quite what he seemed on the surface, each was possessed by the need to dig under surfaces. Each was an exposer extraordinaire." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
