In July, as part of a widely-reported sweep which affected high-profile critics in three other disciplines as well, the newspaper removed Green as chief theater critic. In his new position, Green will cover classical music and visual art as well as theater, writing “news and news analysis, features and multimedia pieces.” - Playbill
“Barnett wielded enormous influence in the market for political memoirs and helped to usher in the era of megadeals. He got eye-popping advances for his clients, in the seven- and eight-figure range.” - The New York Times
She was a career stage actress who took her first film role at 60 and her first lead at 94. Since then, she’s starred in two more features and will appear on Broadway next year. Where does she find the energy? “I don’t know, either. I just gird my loins and go!” - AP
As one biographical blurb put it, “Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and the only true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic, egomaniacal fraud.” But the deeply personal cinéma verité style he developed in his stream of consciousness pictures certainly had its supporters. - Variety
“There’s no big reveal. Maybe the reason people just assume that there’s some big next thing is that they can’t imagine that you would give up hosting All Things Considered unless it was to grab another shiny gold ring, because that’s kind of been my whole life.” - Vulture (MSN)
Lisa Jeanine Findley, 54, who has gone by many other names in a criminal career spattered with financial grifts, was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison, plus three years’ probation, for an attempt to foreclose on Elvis Presley’s mansion to satisfy a loan which never actually existed. - NBC News
She starred in over 100 films and television pieces, but was best known for Federico Fellini’s film 8½, Luchino Visconti’s adaptation of the historical novel The Leopard, Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western Once Upon a Time in the West, and the Hollywood films Blindfold, Don’t Make Waves, and The Professionals. - AP
Stabler, an energetic, generous, elegant writer, was part of a particularly strong era at The Oregonian, when art, architecture, music, book, theatre, and many other critics shared ideas, space, and boundless energy. - Oregon ArtsWatch
“This is significant in naming Redford’s staying power, in why he’ll have such an intelligent and meaningful legacy—all of these characters are a little too deft for their own good, and didn’t Redford know it, and play it.” - The Atlantic
“There are photographs of me sleeping in a trunk backstage at City Center. The theater is longer than my relationship to any other person or institution in my life.” - The New York Times
Gund - called “Aggie” by many artists and arts institutions as they mourn her on social media - oversaw MoMA’s 2004 expansion, founded the Arts for Justice Fund, and generally "lobbied energetically for contemporary art” at MoMA and beyond. - The New York Times
“The 81-year-old Buddy Holly Story star had pleaded guilty in July to a single count of criminal sexual contact for touching a woman’s buttocks ‘over clothing during an 8-10 second photo op’ … at the Monster-Mania Convention at the Doubletree Hotel in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, a suburb of Philadelphia.” - AP
“(Five members) were sentenced to periods ranging from 8 to 13 years for ‘spreading knowingly false information containing data about the deployment of the Russian Armed Forces,’ according to the court. The case centers the collective’s 2022 antiwar video that opens with the phrase, ‘the howls of Mariupol.’” - ARTnews
In the review, she famously wrote in praise of the chain’s chicken Alfredo as “warm and comforting on a cold day.” “As I ate, I noticed the vases and planters with permanent flower displays on the ledges,” she wrote. “There are several dining areas with arched doorways. And there is a fireplace that adds warmth to the decor.” -...
“When I started the Institute, the major studios dominated the game, which I was a part of,. I wanted to focus on the word ‘independence’ and those sidelined by the majors — supporting those sidelined by the dominant voices. To give them a voice. - Los Angeles Times
