Since 1985, A Tribe Called Quest have been pioneers of alternative hip-hop, combining playful poetry with searing social commentary and funky, infectious electronic melodies. Since splintering in 1998, the group came together for a handful of reunion gigs, but didn't release any new albums until last year.
Footsteps and the purposeful thrum of air conditioners are the loudest sounds in Christie's Park Royal warehouse on the day of a recent visit. Beyond two leopard-print chaises longues and a phalanx of vacant plinths and pedestals is Adrian Hume-Sayer, director of private collections at the auctioneer's, busying himself with Audrey Hepburn's trove.
Mayim Bialik is one of the highest-paid actresses on television,
In a voice as mellifluous as Highland heather honey, Phyllida Law leans forward and confides: "It has been an awfully long road." One of our longest-serving actresses, Law has been working almost non-stop for more than 60 years. Yet those eyes - as big, blue and bright as gulls' eggs - are so mischievous, it's not impossible to imagine, despite the gloriously coiffed white hair, Law is still an ingenue in the wings waiting to take over the lead role, as she first did after joining the Bristol Old Vic in 1952.
Henry Kissinger said, "The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."
Tony Benn, who was a cabinet minister in the British Labour government in the 1960s and 70s, said, "It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you."
In 2015, rising US opera star Stephen Costello was minutes away from making his Metropolitan Opera debut when he lost his voice.
Time can be such a curious, slippery thing. John Godsalve worked at the court of Henry VIII. A protégé of the king's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, he enjoyed a successful career, culminating with a knighthood at Edward VI's coronation in 1547. He also had the good fortune to sit for a likeness by Hans Holbein the Younger.
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