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...work. At the beginning I was thinking about a very dark end but I changed doing this work and came to a more optimistic end, I think," says Beauchard. The first half of these chapbooks were collected and released in the U.S. three years ago to much acclaim (see the TIME.comix review). Now the first and second half have been combined into one gorgeous hardcover (361 pages...
...acclaim from Rushmore brought an avalanche of offers, almost all of which Murray ignored. In a typically idiosyncratic move, he decided to go agentless in 1999. (Michael Ovitz represented him until 1995.) He has since replaced a powerful talent agency with an automated voice mailbox. He gives out the 800 number sparingly and monitors the messages from his home overlooking the Hudson River in upstate New York. "I check in regularly," he says. But then adds, "Sometimes I don't check in. Things get busy. I got stuff to do. But you just can't have the phone ringing...
...abstract painter whose spare yet soulful geometric grids strove to induce nothing grander than, in her words, "a little happiness [and] tranquillity"; in Taos, N.M. Martin's work was sometimes linked to Minimalism, but she insisted it was more a product of Expressionism and certainly "not cool." She won acclaim in the late 1950s for her clean lines, awash in grays or muted pastels, then stopped painting for seven years. Influenced by Buddhism and the colors and shapes of New Mexico, she eventually resumed creating work that can now be seen in collections from the Tate in London...
DIED. PHILIPPE DE BROCA, 71, director of frenetic film comedies of France's New Wave; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. A onetime assistant to François Truffaut, he made dozens of films over five decades but gained most acclaim in the 1960s with the spy spoof That Man from Rio, which followed Jean-Paul Belmondo on a global search for a statuette, and the antiwar satire King of Hearts, starring a young Alan Bates as a disillusioned World War I soldier, a flop in France but a longtime art-house cult...
...with such choreographers as George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton in major troupes like the Vic-Wells Ballet and the first incarnation of the American Ballet Theater. Known for her unsnobbish passion, delicacy and range, she is indelibly linked to Giselle, a role she played frequently to fervent acclaim in productions throughout the world...