Marcuse ran several bookstores, but Common Concerns, in Dupont Circle during the Reagan and (H.W.) Bush years, was the most important for a community looking for a home. His (Ed) "Meese is a Pig" T-shirts and posters were top-sellers. - Washington Post
Yeoh, on Everything Everywhere All at Once: "When we were doing the butt-plug fight sequences, I was on the ground, laughing my head off, going like: 'Oh my God! Would I have ever thought that one day I would be doing this kind of martial arts?'" - The Guardian (UK)
Haley Lu Richardson was a dancer when she and her mom moved from Phoenix to L.A. Her success has been a slow burn. "I’d rather be doing a smaller independent film with people that I really feel like I can collaborate with and I really trust." - The Guardian (UK)
Berganza won fame in Rossini and Mozart, and of course in Carmen, but her "vast repertoire as a recitalist included German lieder, French and Italian art songs and, most notably, Spanish music — zarzuelas, arias and Gypsy ballads — which she consistently championed." - The New York Times
"He's an unknowable icon, the internet's adorably tragic boyfriend, a prolific actor who never seems to be acting. ... Wesley Morris and Alex Pappademas discuss memorable examples of Keanu being Keanu (including the time he literally played himself) — and why we see ourselves whenever we look at him." - The New York Times
During the second of the two concertos, he experienced acute heart failure while performing, but Toradze kept on playing, unaware of the medical danger. - ClassicFM
Maria Alyokhina had been under house arrest for months, but when, in April, Putin announced that she was to be sent back to a penal colony, she improvised an escape that involved a disguise as a food delivery worker, crossing Belarus incognito, and smuggled travel documents. - The New York Times
Carlin is a venerated figure in his chosen field who unites performers as disparate as Joe Rogan and Jim Gaffigan, but he’s also someone whose influence transcends comedy. - The New York Times
"During the 1910s and '20s, Millay achieved the kind of fame that was unusual for a poet then and unthinkable now. ... But fame is rarely an unmixed blessing, particularly when it arrives early in life. Like Judy Garland or Britney Spears, Millay had to grow up in public." - The New Yorker
His great innovation was to turn the santoor, a hammer dulcimer which Indians had heard only in Kashmiri folk music, into a full-fledged solo instrument in high-art Hindustani classical music. He was especially known for his duos with bamboo flute superstar Hariprasad Chaurasia, with whom he collaborated on several Bollywood soundtracks. - BBC
Pérez had a comic book career that spanned four decades. His "meticulous pencil was behind some of the biggest comic book heroes," including New Teen Titans and The Avengers. "Pérez's mid-'80s reboot of Wonder Woman returned the superheroine to her Greek mythology origins." - NPR
"Parnell had been in several bands, including the British prog-rock outfit Atomic Rooster, when he auditioned for This Is Spinal Tap, a deadpan sendup of rock clichés, and got the role of the drummer, Mick Shrimpton." He fit in just fine. - The New York Times
Savage, who starred in the original Wonder Years when he was a kid, has been at the center of a few stories about his conduct in recent years. This time, after an investigation, "the decision was made to terminate his employment as an executive producer and director." - The New York Times
They fled by car and foot when the bombs began to drop. Now Oleksandra Kovalchuk, staying at her parents' house, "using a borrowed laptop, has become a central node in an international network trying to protect museum and library collections in Odesa and beyond." - MSN (Boston Globe)
