The Daily Scene

Ricky Gervais on Churchill, Caligula, and Creativity–Esquire

There’s no difference between fame and infamy now. There’s a new school of professional famous people that don’t do anything. They don’t create anything. You should make something. You should bring something into the world that wasn’t in the world before. It doesn’t matter what that is. It doesn’t matter if it’s a table or a film or gardening — everyone should create. You should do something, then sit back and say, “I did that.”

The Devolution of the New York Review of Books–Joseph Epstein/WSJ

The menu allowed no substitutions: You wanted the Nabokov, you had to take Noam Chomsky.

Cultural Standards, Meet the Grammys–Deadline

Breasts, buttocks, genitals banned at Grammys – but also message-sending lapel pins.

Lavone Paire Davis, Inspiration for A League of the Their Own, Dies–WaPo

“There’s no crying in baseball,” said Mrs. Davis, often called “Pepper,” when asked years later how she endured the pain while keeping her composure. Mrs. Davis, a mainstay of women’s baseball in the 1940s and ’50s, died Feb. 2 at a hospital in Van Nuys, Calif. She was 88. Her line was later immortalized in the 1992 hit film about women’s baseball, “A League of Their Own,” which featured Tom Hanks as a gruff, no-nonsense manager who barked at his players that there was “no crying” in the sport.

Is Kris Jenner Narcissistic?–Huffington Post

. . . and manipulative? A psychological evaluation says yes on both counts.

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