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...German Vogue, and the parallel rerelease of a prizewinning Schnabel film, Before Night Falls. Gushed a headline in the tabloid Bild Zeitung: MR. BIG SWEEPS BACK IN TRIUMPH. One of the best-known celebrity artists New York City has produced since Andy Warhol, Schnabel, now 52, shot to youthful fame in the late '70s with his signature "plate paintings," in which broken crockery is embedded on a painted canvas, then painted some more. He was hailed as a "Picasso who can do anything" (Frankfurt Modern Art Museum director Jean Christophe Ammann) and derided as the "Sylvester Stallone" of painting (TIME...
...Daily Show? traveling circus. A copy of the Jack Barth-Ken Smith classic ?Roadside America? in his back pocket, he visits the Museum of Towing, enters a BGA (Bad Golfers Association) tournament, investigates the Mothman legend in West Virginia, crashes the Exotic World Burlesque Museum & Striptease Hall of Fame, attends the Fruitcake demolition derby (that piece has to be retired) or just walks home the night of last August?s blackout. Stoic bafflement - a deadpan stare into the camera - is Geist?s usual game. But, when pressed, he can celebrate. For a wonderful ?CBS SM? show dedicated to New York...
Following Sept. 11, 2001, Bennett gained moderate fame as the former personal doctor for the bin Laden family...
...going it alone: I would rather have friends willing to tell me I am about to make a grave mistake than have rubber-stamp yes-men. Tom Faulkner San Diego An Unkind Cut I found it offensive that in your section of people who had "15 Minutes of Fame" in 2003 [Dec. 29-Jan. 5], you included mountaineer Aron Ralston, the climber who had been pinned by a boulder and freed himself by cutting off his arm. What Ralston did was courageous and necessary to save his life. Instead of having 15 minutes of fame, Ralston, I am sure, would...
DIED. ELROY (Crazylegs) HIRSCH, 80, Hall of Fame receiver for the Los Angeles Rams; in Madison, Wis. After three injury-plagued years with the Chicago Rockets, he became a star after the Rams switched him from running back to split end. During the team's 1951 championship season, he caught 10 touchdown passes...