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☆ Quincy Jones, musical titan and entertainment icon, dead at 91
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-04 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

“Tonight, with full but broken hearts, we must share the news of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing,” the Jones family said in the statement. American jazz musician, arranger, and composer Quincy Jones (left) works with singer and actor Frank Sinatra on a soundstage, 1964. His family eventually moved to Seattle, Washington, and Jones began taking lessons from famed horn player Clark Terry. Musician, composer and producer Quincy Jones poses for a portrait in 1981 in Los Angeles. In 1967 he married Swedish model Ulla Andersson, and they had two children, Martina and Quincy Jones III, before divorcing in 1974.

Persons: Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Jones, ”, John Dominis, Michael Jackson’s, Clark Terry, Lionel Hampton, Gladys, “, ” Jones, ‘, We’ll, ’ ” Jones, Schillinger, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby Holland, Michael Ochs, Leslie Gore’s, Peggy Lee, Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Jim Henson, Kevin Mazur, Bel, Will Smith, Jeri Caldwell, Jolie, Ulla Andersson, Quincy Jones III, Peggy Lipton, Rashida Jones, Kidada Jones, Rachel, Carol Reynolds, Kenya Kinski, Nastassja Kinski, Rolling Stone, Louie Armstrong, Mr, Sinatra Organizations: CNN, Hampton, National Endowment, Arts, Berklee College of Music, Michael Ochs Archives, Mercury Records, Party, M Records, Qwest, Jim Henson Studios Locations: Bel Air , California, American, Chicago, Seattle , Washington, Boston, Los Angeles, Haiti, Hollywood , California, Swedish, Kenya

☆ The Affair That Split New York High Society
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Liesl Schillinger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

STRONG PASSIONS: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York, by Barbara WeisbergThe touch of a hand from two centuries ago can spark powerful emotions in the present. In Jane Austen’s novel, their chemistry leads to marriage and the elevation of the heroine’s fortunes. But in New York in 1860, a real-life brush of hands “ignited a fiery and forbidden passion” between members of two prominent families. Their romance wrecked a marriage, destroyed the woman’s reputation and resulted in a lurid divorce trial whose salacious details filled pages of the nation’s newspapers. In “Strong Passions,” her riveting reconstruction of a scandal that “rocked genteel society,” Barbara Weisberg reassembles the story with the clear determination to treat both sides equally, and without leering.

Persons: Barbara Weisberg, “, ”, Jane Austen’s, ” Barbara Weisberg Locations: Old New York, New York

☆ ‘Roman Stories’ Review: Eternal, Uncertain City
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Liesl Schillinger | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Photo: Matteo Nardone/Pacific Press/AlamyWhat does it mean to be “a Roman” in the 21st century? But the narrator of the last story in Jhumpa Lahiri’s collection “Roman Stories” has a personal stake in this question. She is an American professor in her 50s who was pulled to Rome as a young woman by a fascination with the Italian poet Dante Alighieri (whose name provides the story’s title). After marrying a Roman, she ended up staying in the city for decades. At her mother-in-law’s funeral, she wonders: Had her long residence made her a Roman?

Persons: Matteo Nardone, Virgil, Aeneas, Caesar, Mussolini, Fellini, Sophia Loren, ”, Dante Alighieri, she’d, “ Organizations: Pacific Press Locations: American, Rome, Italian, America

☆ A Sunny Place for Shady People
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-27 | by ( Liesl Schillinger | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Its owner was known to accept paintings in lieu of payment — “My kind of hotel,” Picasso joked. In 1960, burglars broke in and stole 21 canvases, including a Braque, a Léger, a Mirò and a Modigliani. The influential Lord Brougham “discovered” Cannes in 1834, when a cholera epidemic interrupted his progress to Italy. Besotted by the Arcadian surroundings, he built a villa. Other foreign aristocrats followed suit, and 20 years later, Prosper Mérimée complained that “the English are established here as in a conquered land.

Persons: ” Picasso, Braque, Modigliani, Miles, Brougham “, Prosper Mérimée, They’ve, Cap Martin, Queen Victoria, Countess, Balmoral, “, Duchess Anastasia, “ Bertie, ”, King Edward VII, Henry Clews, Frank Jay Gould, Murphys, Edith Wharton, Scott Fitzgerald Organizations: Art, Villa Americana Locations: Saint, Paul, Cannes, Italy, Nice, Beaulieu, La, Menton, Balmoral ”, Russian, Monte Carlo, ”, Antibes, Hyères

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