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...artist and designer has there been any point in your career that you've wanted to try something new? -Frederick Watson in Watertown, New York I am doing what I want to do. I am not only drawing, but constantly wondering what would please fans most and whether I can do something new. When I did the 'Kabuki' series, I saw a lot of Kabuki plays. I had a dresser to show me the costumes and they are so heavy that I nearly tripped. I don't draw from an imagination, so I have to study...
...Their Own brought her story to life on the big screen, pitcher Dottie Collins was already the stuff of legend. During World War II, Collins played for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, mostly with the Fort Wayne Daisies. She pitched 17 shutouts during her six-year career. Always tenacious--she continued to play until she was several months pregnant--she was devoted to keeping the memory of the league alive. Collins spearheaded the effort to create the Baseball Hall of Fame exhibit that inspired the 1992 film...
Drilling deeper into the data, you find two particularly common kinds of Twitterers. The first group, type H03 (14.7% of Twitter visitors), a.k.a the "Stable Career," comprises a "collection of young and ethnically diverse singles living in big-city metros like Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Miami." The Stable Career tends to work in the arts and entertainment industry, drive small cars and espouse very liberal political views...
...Bourne dates the beginning of his international career to an evening in 1997, when Gordon Davidson, founding artistic director of the Center Theater Group in Los Angeles, went to see a London production of Swan Lake, with its cast of virile, threatening male swans. "I was amazed by what he'd done," recalls Davidson, who retired in 2005. "I said to myself, we have to do it - somehow." He brought the piece over to L.A.'s 2,000-seat Ahmanson Theater, whose audience was more used to touring Broadway shows than experimental dance. But when Davidson wrote...
...When you've had as tough a life as Cejudo, a grueling day is routine. He spent his first four years in South Central Los Angeles, the son of illegal immigrants from Mexico City. His father, Jorge Cejudo, was a career criminal who shuttled in and out of jail. Nelly Rico, Henry's mother, moved her six kids to New Mexico to flee Jorge before he got out of a California prison...