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What It Was Like Working With Glenda Jackson When She Returned To Acting From Parliament

"It was the greatest privilege of my career. Glenda was overly fearless as a performer, and overly fearless as a woman. To come out and restart a career in your 80s, it was phenomenal. I don’t know if anyone else has ever had the passion and bravery."- The Guardian (UK)

Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked The Pentagon Papers, Has Died At 92

His leak of the papers "led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling on press freedoms and enraged the Nixon administration — serving as the catalyst for a series of White House-directed burglaries and 'dirty tricks' that snowballed into the Watergate scandal." - Washington Post

The Rumors Were True: Astrud Gilberto Spent Her Last 24 Years Near-Anonymously In Philadelphia

"An air of mystery surrounded stories of Gilberto possibly living in Philadelphia for decades. Was she seen at the Reading Terminal Market? At Rustic Music in Center City? ... (She abandoned) stardom to live anonymously in a city where she had a history reaching back nearly six decades." - The Philadelphia Inquirer

David Remnick Remembers Robert Gottlieb

Gottlieb, who died on Wednesday, at the age of ninety-two, may have been the most important book editor of his time. Caro was just one of hundreds of authors he ministered to. Gottlieb had passions––among them literature, ballet, music, and the movies––and those passions were reflected in his long list of authors. - The New Yorker

People Are Totally Lining Up To Cast Me As Soon As I’m Acquitted, Says Kevin Spacey

"It's a time in which a lot of people are very afraid that if they support me, they will be canceled. But I know that there are people right now who are ready to hire me the moment I am cleared of these (sexual assault) charges in London." - Zeit Magazine (Germany)

Glenda Jackson, 87

"Hollywood showered her with admiration and two best actress Oscars. But Jackson was not easily flattered. Famously prickly, her view of Tinseltown often bordered on contempt. ... And, at the height of her acting power, she gave it all up for a career in politics." - BBC

Legendary Editor Robert Gottlieb, 92

For three decades at the publishing houses Simon & Schuster and Knopf, he turned hundreds of manuscripts into well-received books, many of which sold millions of copies, won awards and made authors wealthy and famous. Colleagues called him incisive but sensitive to writers’ eggshell egos. - The New York Times

Jacques Rozier, Last Surviving Filmmaker Of The French New Wave, Is Dead At 96

"Such luminaries (as Godard and Truffaut) acknowledged him as a member in good standing in what amounted to one of cinema history's most exclusive clubs, collectively committed to reinventing the art form by upending conventional notions of what a movie could be." - The New York Times

Author Cormac McCarthy, 89

"(His) lyrical and often brutally violent novels propelled him to the first ranks of American fiction, immersing readers in scenes of savagery, despair and occasional tenderness in the backwoods of Tennessee, the deserts of the Southwest and the ashen desolation of a postapocalyptic world." - Detroit News (The Washington Post)

Actor Treat Williams Killed In Motorcycle Accident

The 71-year-old star of the films Hair, Prince of the City, Once Upon a Time in America, and The Eagle Has Landed and the TV series Everwood collided with a car making a left turn across his lane on a rural Vermont road. - AP

Conductor Gerhardt Zimmermann Is Dead At 77

He served as music director of the North Carolina Symphony in Raleigh for two decades (1982-2003) and of the Canton Symphony in Ohio for over four decades (1980-2023) and was for 12 years on the faculty of the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas. - Ideastream Public Media (Cleveland)

Actor Rosamund Pike Has Had It With The So-Called Wellness Industry

Pike: "This idea that it’s no longer enough to be healthy and we have to be 'well' is something that needs to be interrogated. Yet it’s so seductive because it’s in pursuit of things that people are ashamed to want, like youth, beauty and fitness." - The Observer (UK)

Author Lorrie Moore Says She Simply Has To Be Cruel To Her Characters

Moore's new noves "is also, as always with Moore, very funny, with plenty of opportunities for her trademark gallows humour." - The Guardian (UK)

Helen Thorington, Who Brought Sonic Art To Regular Radio Waves, Has Died At 94

Thorington created "the auditory equivalent of an art installation" many times. "Radio art was a niche medium when Ms. Thorington started out, but she helped bring attention to the form — through her work ... and later as the founder of a project called New American Radio." - The New York Times

Claire Denis, Directing Fierce Films – And Being An Utterly Fierce Interview – At 77

She says, "Everything about film-making is frightening. ... I’m scared before about making a bad movie, about not being true to the actors, to the story, to the image of the world. But on a set it’s too late. There is no time for fear." - The Guardian (UK)

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