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With the death of Elizabeth Murray at age 66 on Sunday, America lost one of its smartest, slyest, most exuberant painters. Merv Griffin will get longer eulogies this week. But trust me, when The Wheel of Fortune is done spinning, she's the one who will matter a great deal more. And it's precisely at this moment, when so much of the fantasy offered to us by mass culture is calculated industrial product, in formulations arrived at by Hollywood or by whichever multinational is fine-tuning the next big video game, that her work feels especially important. She stood...
...more on the art world, and Elizabeth Murray, go to Looking Around...
...PAPER BAG PRINCESS Elizabeth's sin? Not only does she wear a paper bag instead of a dress, but she also rescued the prince from a dragon--and then ditched...
...more credit for, you know, being the puppeteer than I am. I express my opinion. Honestly, I'm not the decision maker.' ELIZABETH EDWARDS, wife of former Senator John Edwards, responding to speculation that she is a controlling force behind her husband's presidential-campaign decisions...
...also probably no coincidence that these actresses were able to see Mirren collect both an Emmy and an Oscar last season (for portraying Queens Elizabeth I and II) after having played the Ur-antiheroine in Prime Suspect. (Driver, Parker and Sedgwick won Emmy nominations this year--as did Mirren, for Prime Suspect's final installment.) Closer creator James Duff never expected Sedgwick to play Brenda--nor, at first, did Sedgwick. Then, she says, "my manager said to me, 'It's a little bit like Prime Suspect.'" These shows give non-ingenues a rare chance to play interesting women. Grace...