Just four days after his surprise reunion with R.E.M. at the 40 Watt Club in Athens, Georgia, Michael Stipe performed at the annual Tibet House benefit at New York’s Carnegie Hall on a packed bill that also included Patti Smith, Jackson Browne, Laurie Anderson, Gogol Bordello, Orville Peck, Allison Russell, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Angélique Kidjo, and Tenzin Choegyal.
Stipe delivered stunning renditions of David Bowie’s 1970 classic “The Man Who Sold the World” and “No Time for Love Like Now,” which he co-wrote with the National’s Aaron Dessner...
Stipe delivered stunning renditions of David Bowie’s 1970 classic “The Man Who Sold the World” and “No Time for Love Like Now,” which he co-wrote with the National’s Aaron Dessner...
- 3/4/2025
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Russell Bases Character on Thurman's Dad
Director David O. Russell is so grateful to Uma Thurman's father Robert Thurman for inspiring his latest movie I Heart Huckabees, he based the central character on him. The Kill Bill star's dad taught Russell ancient texts at college, and was such a profound influence on the young film-maker, Russell used Dustin Hoffman's detective character to pay homage to him. He tells British magazine Empire, "I was taught by Robert Thurman. He's one of the most brilliant scholars in the world, completely unpretentious but an expert in Sanskrit and all these ancient texts. The detective played by Dustin Hoffman is actually based on him."...
- 11/8/2004
- WENN
The Dalai Lama is believed by Tibetans to be the fourteenth in a line of reincarnations of the All-Compassionate Divine Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (“Chenraysee” in Tibetan), who have appeared in Tibet for centuries in order to serve the Tibetan people as teacher and ruler. He is a Buddhist monk, an accomplished scholar of Buddhist philosophy, psychology, history, art and liturgy, a creative philosopher in his own right, an adept contemplative — a “holy man” in the classic sense — and also an experienced diplomat, a head of state in exile and a Nobel-laureate peace activist.
- 5/24/2001
- by Robert Thurman
- Rollingstone.com
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