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...critics are going to say Wyeth was just an illustrator." Norman Rockwell battled the same demon, and Andy Warhol took heat for suggesting it was O.K. to have assistants do some of the work--a tactic several populist artists now use. Collectors such as Bob and Cathy Adorni, a Castaic, Calif., couple who own 58 Kinkade prints, view such techniques as an acceptable means to an end. "You can't blame someone for earning a living with their talent," says Bob Adorni. Or can you? "People say I've sold out," says Kinkade. "But not reproducing my art would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art Of Selling Kitsch | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...Your cover boasts the most attractive-looking man I've seen in a long, long time! I like his twinkle. I like his elegance." LOIS PELLERIN Castaic, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 23, 1998 | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

Polarity. In Nipigon, Ont., Corporal Ted Broughton of the Provincial Police was wakened by the sound of breaking glass, saw an arm thrust through the broken front-door panel of his home, yanked in and arrested Robert Stevens, 31, for breaking and entering. In Castaic, Calif., Frank Joseph Nemcek, 23, serving a one-year term for robbery, escaped from the jail, walked out to the highway, had the misfortune to hitch a ride from Deputy Sheriff Walter M. Doughty, who was on his way to work at the jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 20, 1954 | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

After two days in jail, spent mopping floors and getting his "aptitudes" tested, Wanger was sent off to the county's honor farm at Castaic, 50 miles from town. There he was put to work as a librarian. Between his bookish chores, Producer Wanger hoped to swing back into the old stride that had helped him turn out such hit movies as Algiers. His own occupational therapy project: working on a movie called Kansas and Pacific, which he plans to produce at Monogram after his release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Summer Vacation | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...danger. After 51 motorists had been killed on Ridge Route in 15 months, Chief E. Raymond Cato of the California Highway Patrol decided on an ingenious method to cancel the carnage, put it into effect last week on a 62½-mile section of the Ridge Route from Castaic Junction to Arvin Road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Ridge Route Tickets | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

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