Category: people

Twenty-seven years after his sudden death at the age of 32, Bruce Lee continues to attract a cult following. If you think this has only to do with his film career, look again. There are a shocking 55 websites dedicated to his martial art stylings, and the seven books of his writings that have been published posthumously have sold over 500,000 copies. – Boston Globe

Oscar Wilde’s headstone in Paris is being destroyed – by kisses. “Marker-pen graffiti can be cleaned off and anything that is scratched into the tomb can be rubbed down with sandpaper, but lipstick contains animal fats which sink in to the stone and also leave horrible marks.” – Daily Mail & Guardian (South Africa)

Charlotte Church may be selling a ton of recordings and making a fortune, but she’s still a kid:” I suppose, yeah. I’m not evil. I’m not that much of a devil. (Turning to mother) Am I acting a little more devilish as I get older, Mum? She says sometimes. There’s a lot she doesn’t know.” – San Francisco Chronicle

“Wisdom in the record business (if that phrase is not yet an oxymoron), for example, holds that a performer’s drawing power drops precipitously after his or her death.” But Leonard Bernstein seems to be a name that still draws considerable interest in the music world. – New York Times

— on Tuesday at age 70. Friedrich had been the Deutsche Oper’s general director since 1981. – New York Times

“Although to this day he modestly maintains he did not have the influence others attributed to him (he says that bad shows were the problem, not his reviews) the fact remains that the reputation of Frank Rich, the critic, will be as one of the most-feared and most powerful journalistic voices in the history of New York. Today’s reviewers don’t have even the shadow of the impact Frank Rich could command.” – The Idler

The family of Anthony Lee, the actor who was killed by Los Angeles police at a Halloween party has filed a $100 million wrongful death suit. Lee was in costume and had a toy gun at the costume party when police shot him. – ABC News

“Knud Jensen, founder of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark’s most visited cultural attraction, died on Tuesday aged 84. – CNN

“The intruder, either hungry for better grazing or charmed by the American diva’s voice, had broken through a series of fences before ending up in the water.” – Ninemsn (AAP)

“Harry Potter” author JK Rowling was supposed to collect an honor from the Queen Monday, but postponed the meeting so she could take care of her ill child. – BBC