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...while, she was known as the woman who said no to Leo. Leonardo Di Caprio had wanted to play the title role in American Psycho, her film of Bret Easton Ellis' incendiary novel about a yuppie murderer, and Harron declined. But after Di Caprio dropped out, she made the $6 million movie with Christian Bale. Anyone who saw her I Shot Andy Warhol, with Lili Taylor as would-be assassin Valerie Solanas, could spot the Canadian-born Oxford graduate's mulishness and taste for beguiling sociopaths. Also her love of period Manhattan. "The Ellis novel has enormously violent sections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sundance Sorority | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...Dooo-di-dooo-di-dooo! Your cell phone--which for some reason is programmed with the most ridiculous-sounding ring in all of telecommunications--goes off. It's D'Angelo's publicist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: D'Angelo: Salvation Sex And Voodoo | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...Dooo-di-dooo-di-dooo! D'Angelo's manager this time. Still looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: D'Angelo: Salvation Sex And Voodoo | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...bears down upon us, we would have to say it's a reasonably good bet that the anticipated Democratic candidate for New York's U.S. Senate seat will go at least one up on the Virgin Mother and, if Hillary wins, may take the top spot away from Di. If that makes you queasy, rest easy. It's nothing a religion cover or two won't cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patrick Smith's Mailbag | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

Little is known of the life and development of Giotto di Bondone, born around 1267 to peasants in the bucolic valleys outside Florence. Legend says the country boy tending his flocks was discovered by the painter Cimabue, who saw him draw a fine sheep upon a rock. A more likely tale has him haunting Cimabue's Florentine bottega until the painter made him an apprentice. There Giotto absorbed his mentor's strength of drawing and sense of drama, but nature was his true teacher. He divined how to depict, with brush and pigment, the human body according to the prescription...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 14th Century: Giotto (c. 1267-1337) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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