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...show's catalog gives some bizarre detail on this, including the case of an obsessive Corot collector in France, a Dr. Jousseaume, who died in the early 1920s and left a collection of 2,414 works by Corot, every one of which turned out to be phony. And then there were the innocent copies, the homages to Corot by later artists and the copies of Corot by Corot himself. No wonder that even certifiably genuine Corots began to look just a little suspicious...
...since the mid-1970s, reveals an absolute mania for cutting taxes and preserving "sound money." Everyone has heard about Forbes' flat tax. But what else does he stand for? Where Malcolm Forbes was famous for collecting Faberge eggs and toy soldiers, Steve Forbes' writings show him to be a collector of policy fetishes that range from mainstream to downright odd. The one constant is their angle of vision, which, as befits an heir, is decidedly a view from...
What would induce LIZ TAYLOR, reclusive movie goddess and divorce-decree collector (she filed for a seventh last week), to appear in four sitcoms in a row airing on Feb. 26? What would persuade her to pose for photos with the stars of the shows, JEAN SMART of High Society, FRAN DRESCHER of The Nanny, CANDICE BERGEN of Murphy Brown, MARY MCDONNELL of Society and NANCY MCKEON of Can't Hurry Love, some of whom are barely household names? Actually, just a nice request and a substantial donation to Taylor's aids charity, AmFAR. (A CBS staff member who used...
...just surviving, I'm not succeeding," says Aurelio ("Lio") Maldonado, a Chicago bill collector. He, his wife Rita, a legal secretary, son Adrian, 6, and daughter Clarissa, 5 months, make up the classic family of four, and their income of $44,000--a bit more than half earned by Rita--is smack in the middle nationally. Their three-bedroom home in the Westlawn neighborhood is comfortable, but the $860 monthly mortgage payments and $300 a month owed on the family's 1992 Firebird eat up about a third of their earnings. The couple would like to keep Adrian...
Hodgkin, whose good-luck god is the French intimiste Edouard Vuillard (he of the dots, of the closely tuned interior scenes that vibrate with a sense of life amply lived and yet separate from public events), is a connoisseur and collector as well as an artist. The two don't necessarily go together. Good taste never made a new picture yet. There is, and ought to be, something immoderate and crazy about painting that goes beyond acts of taste and comparison. Hodgkin's failures may be the outcome of too much taste, not too little, but he is a glutton...