– Americans for the Arts, the national arts advocacy group, announced on Monday this year’s winners of its National Arts Awards, including singer Aretha Franklin, actor Jake Gyllenhaal and artist Jeff Koons.
– Rocker-turned-director Rob Zombie picked up a “Killer Movie” award on Saturday for his horror flick “The Devil’s Rejects” at the Chainsaw Awards, airing Sunday on fuse TV.
– If comic-book characters like the Incredible Hulk and Spider-Man seem different, their creator, Stan Lee, says that’s the point. “The thing I had in mind was to make it a story against bigotry of all sorts, because here were people who were certainly different than everybody else, but they were good, they were trying to do the right thing,” Lee said in Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle. “But as so often happens in real life, if you have a different religion, a different country, a different sexual orientation, whatever the difference is, people — not all people, but it happens — are going to dislike you, distrust you, fear you.”
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The Personals page was compiled by Cheryl Bowles from Tribune news services and staff reports.
