Deborah Solomon: “Do you think you’re a plastic-surgery addict?” Rivers: “No. I think I’m in a business where you have to look good, and it’s totally youth-oriented.” Solomon: “I prefer the aging bohemian, Georgia O’Keeffe look.” Rivers: “That’s great if you’re Georgia O’Keeffe and each painting is $5 million and they’re sitting at your feet. But if Georgia O’Keeffe were waiting at a bus stop, nobody … would have pulled over and said, ‘Hey, baby, want a lift?'”
Tag: 01.04.09
Reviving The Columbus Symphony
After the Ohio orchestra’s near-death experience last year, new chairman Martin Inglis is recruiting board members, pushing fiscal prudence and repairing relations with demoralized musicians. “We’re all bruised. There are still a lot of raw emotions out there and differing views, and they’re probably irreconcilable. My comment is, ‘Fine, we can’t go backward; we’ve got to chart our own course.'”
Recession Could Be Good For Design
During the recent boom, “[f]orm followed frivolity. Function was left off the guest list.” But with the bust, “[t]he pain of layoffs notwithstanding, the design world could stand to come down a notch or two – and might actually find a new sense of relevance in the process.”
‘The Tap Goddess Of The Lower East Side’
Claudia La Rocco meets Jane Goldberg, the “frizzy-haired Jewish girl” who, with a mixture of persistence, chutzpah and comedic charm, pushed the 1970s and ’80s revival of a then-fading dance form dominated by older African-American men.
Edmund Purdom, 84, Star Of Hollywood And Cinecittà Pageants
A British actor who replaced Mario Lanza in MGM’s The Srudent Prince, Purdom starred in the Hollywood costume epics The Egyptian and The Prodigal, then went on to a career in Italian sword-and-sandal epics.