Molly Johnson has achieved at the highest level in Canada, with the awards to match: “I gotta say I was depressed. It saddened me, initially, deeply, that here I am in this stage of my career and I still can’t really pay my bills." - Toronto Star
“He brought the attitude of a businessman and an entrepreneur to a sector that, as you well know, is much less focused on that than on the present moment.” - Artnet
"For close observers, the story of Adams, 65, has taken a stunning turn — though in a manner that had been foreshadowed in recent years as the cartoonist rebranded himself as a provocateur, routinely making headlines for his polarizing views on politics, race and other aspects of identity." - MSN (The Washington Post)
"He was one of a long line of screen performers whose brilliance was shadowed by shocking offenses that employers were willing to factor into the hiring process because of his track record of superlative performances. His life was filled with reprieves and second chances." - Vulture
During red carpets for her second Oscar nomination, 29 years after her first, the actor has to remain guarded. "It’s an attempt to remain poised in the midst of a whirlwind. It’s being grateful, thankful. And I think all that comes across as being regal." - Washington Post
The Uruguayn-born "Viñoly was at once a 24-7 architecture geek and a bon vivant with a penchant for French wines. ... He was also a classically trained pianist who gave recitals in a music pavilion on his property in Water Mill, N.Y., on eastern Long Island." - The New York Times
"Working with sponges, brushes, towels, squeegees, hand-cut stencils and a rich array of oil-based inks, Mr. Stovall helped demonstrate that printmaking was an art form, not just a commercial craft." - Washington Post
"Born into exiled Russian nobility and numbering among his forebears an admiral who served under Peter the Great, Mr. Apraxine had trained in classical draftsmanship and art history in Brussels before essentially falling into the photography world in New York in the early 1970s." - The New York Times
Majors, whose star is rising fast right now, was worried that Jordan - already a superstar - might not be great to work with, because of his experience with others in the industry. "The game is set up so it makes it feel like feast or famine." - The New York Times
"Leonard Cohen's children and heirs, Lorca and Adam Cohen, have filed a motion accusing the legendary singer-songwriter's former manager, Robert Kory, and his legal representatives of forgery and asking the court to remove him from the role of trustee and to compel him to turn over the estate's assets." - Variety
His career reached across more than half a century, largely inextricable from jazz’s complex evolution during that span. His sound was brighter on soprano, an instrument on which he left an incalculable influence; he could be inquisitive, teasing or elusive, but always with a pinpoint intonation and clarity of attack. - The New York Times
"Acting is not so much a job for Dafoe as a way of being, a practice so essential he can't go without it. ... 'He wants very much to be needed,' says (director Elizabeth) LeCompte. 'And if he's needed, he'll give everything. He has to work.'" - T — The New York Times Style Magazine
"The Mirisch Company, which (he) founded in 1957 along with (two brothers), grew to be an industry powerhouse, greenlighting films by leading directors — including John Ford, John Huston and Billy Wilder — that were nominated for a total of 87 Academy Awards and won 28." - The New York Times
Love it all or hate it all or fall somewhere in between (Koons! has played all these years to decidedly mixed reviews), he has maintained extraordinary relevance over the decades. - GQ
"(It) is the bogeyman that people have come up with to explain away bad behaviour. ... As long as we continue to, for example, listen to misogynistic music it is going to continue to be made. At what point do we make different choices?" - The Guardian
