Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NEILL: SON AND ARTIST...
...labors for the New York stage brought him four Pulitzers and a Nobel Prize (in 1936-for Mourning Becomes Electro, O'Neill thought). Strange Interlude netted O'Neill, who was not immune to the charms of money, about $275,000. He inhabited at least three artist's dream palaces, including a 35-room chateau at Le Plessis near Tours. In his closet O'Neill had 75 pairs of shoes; in his drive, a Bugatti roadster. What more could even a black Irishman...
...Carlotta's enemy list. Years later, when Miss Neal, then a star, was about to be signed for a revival of Desire Under the Elms, Carlotta vetoed the casting. Yet by her fanatical possessiveness Carlotta gave O'Neill both the protection he needed as a practicing artist and the pain he needed as a practicing masochist-which may be better than he gave in return...
...Krasner has been a painter for 40 years-not a woman meant to live in the shadow of anybody else. But by an accident of love, she fell into such a shade when she married a great artist, Jackson Pollock...
...Hollywood Palladium after his concert there. "Just with the kids that paid to see me. A party where for a change I don't have to put up a false front." His New York-based pressagent, Connie DeNave, nixed that. "Rod, darling," she said, "you're an artist. You need to be with your own kind-nice big, important people. Your kind of people." Rod darling turned away, half in frustration, half in anger. "You see what I mean? These people [the fans] are paying the money and we treat them like trash. I should be making...