Joni Mitchell, Amy Tan, N. Scott Momaday join arts academyJoni Mitchell has received honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the century old institution where general inductees have ranged from Henry James and Georgia O’Keeffe to Sonny Rollins and Jasper Johns.
George Butler, documentary filmmaker whose subjects included Schwarzenegger and Shackleton, dies at 78His first film, ‘Pumping Iron,’ introduced bodybuilding to a wide audience. Later movies examined the activist career of John F. Kerry and a NASA rover mission to Mars.washingtonpost.com
