Performing Arts 

Iranian Actress Barred From Leaving Iran - "The ban was imposed after Golshifteh Farahani, 25, took part in Ridley Scott's "Body of Lies" with Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe. Farahani is the first Iranian-based female actor to star in a Hollywood movie."... Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:35:25 -0800

Film Critic Manny Farber, 91 - "During the '40s and '50s his jazzy movie commentaries were published in The Nation, The New Republic and Commentary. Wordplayful and alert to form, these essays struck readers attuned to Swing as a kind of literary Be-bop. He sang of undersung filmmakers like Howard Hawks and Don Siegel at the same time fledgling French critics Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard were doing same in Cahiers du Cinema."... Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:52:15 -0800

Florida Theatre Critic Jack Zink, 61 - "It would be hard to grow up in South Florida and have an interest in theater and not know who Jack Zink is. As the theater community has changed and become fuller, more diverse and robust, Jack has always been right at the center of it all."... Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:45:44 -0800

The Man Who Wrote The First Thesaurus - A London-born polymath who trained as a physician, Roget was best known in his day (1779-1869) for his well-respected treatises on the classification of plants and animals. He even laid the theoretical groundwork for the invention of the movies, having "discovered" the eye's tendency to perceive a series of still images as being in motion.... Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:02:15 -0800

Elliott Carter @ 99 - "The constant remark made about Carter during the Tanglewood festival was that he is unique in music history. No major composer has ever been so vital for so long."... Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:21:43 -0800