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...liked the way they looked"); how maybe he lends clothes to certain actresses, "but Goldie Hawn paid cold cash"; reflections on culture ("I like museums -- but really fast. I can do a museum in half an hour"). Autobiography can be selective. He won't reveal his age (mid-30s by deduction). "It puts you in a category," he insists. "You're not fresh enough to be new." Ask him about his father leaving home, and he sidesteps the question with an ode to his dad's shoes (black-and-white pony skin). Kelly wants to remember Mississippi merry, not Mississippi...
...whole, the rooms devoted to 1910-35 are the best. The show does a particular service by exhuming the impressive work of Mario Sironi (1885-1961) and, at long last, intelligently describing the relations between Italian modernists and Fascism in the 1920s and '30s. The pieties of art politics, up to the present, have tended to discourage this, since the arrival of Mussolini was greeted with rapture by so many leading artists and intellectuals. The Fascist rhetoric of dynamism and machine efficiency meshed with (and was partly inspired by) that of futurism; while the Duce's promise of a renewed...
...phase in the TV talent sweepstakes. In the past, high-visibility newscasters were wooed mainly for anchor spots on the morning and evening news shows. Now they are being groomed as prime-time stars. Shows are even being constructed around them, the way Hollywood studios in the '30s used to create vehicles for their contract stars. Chung has been promised the anchor job on a soon to be reconstituted version of West 57th, CBS's low-rated magazine show. Sawyer will co-anchor, with Sam Donaldson, a new prime-time news hour on ABC, scheduled to debut in August. Williams...
...happened in a single year, just a half-century ago. The dark days seemed to have ended at last -- the years of the Depression and the dust bowl -- and Americans were regaining their pride and self-confidence. They had touched bottom, but they had pulled themselves up. As the '30s ended, the New York World's Fair summed up the nation's suddenly buoyant mood with its official march, Dawn of a New Day. And who, in the atmosphere of optimism that marked the start of 1939, could have doubted that...
LEND ME A TENOR. Funnier than Neil Simon's Rumors and ably played, this door- slamming farce revives the swellegant urbanity of the '30s...