Many people close to the late chef/author/TV star refused to speak with Charles Leerhsen for his Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain. But his ex-wife, who controls the estate, did, and Leerhsen got access to texts and emails from Bourdain's final days. - The New York Times
"(She's) managed a one-of-a-kind, first-of-its-sort, decades-long career with dreadlocks on her head, no eyebrows on her face and her foot in her mouth ... Goldberg has never held anything back. She knows that this is part of her legacy, but also what it can cost her." - The New York Times Magazine
There’s a chance that a blunt story about Ginsburg’s decline might have changed the trajectory that led to the end of Americans’ right to abortion. - Politico
Thompson, co-founder of the North Adams, Mass. museum, who stepped down as director in 2020 after 32 years, was charged with motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation for a 2018 collision with a motorcyclist who died at the scene and was found to have been drunk. - New England Public Media
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...
