Wisdom, insights and observations from this weekend’s Arts & Leisure section. (Click on links for complete articles.)
“I’ve never tried anything more than playing who I am. If you look at my characters, they’re all me.” — Cher, in a profile by Frank Bruni. Cher’s new movie, “Burlesque,” opens nationwide on Wednesday.
“I happen to be one of the most discursive conversationalists on the planet. I could start out with geography and end up at raincoats.” — the writer Fran Lebowitz. Melena Ryzik interviews Ms. Lebowitz, who is the subject of Martin Scorsese’s new HBO documentary, “Public Speaking.”
“His work didn’t seem studied. It was as if you were looking out the window — or my window in the Bronx.” — the cartoonist Jules Feiffer on the artist Denys Wortman. Carol Kino writes about Mr. Wortman’s decades of newspaper drawings, the subject of a new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York.
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