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Thiebaud is weaker, because more illustrational, as a draftsman of the human body. He renders it with stolid accuracy, but never endows it with the depth or concision of feeling that infuses the still lifes; the flesh aspires to the condition of vinyl...
...repeat performance, but this time the Administration was more forthcoming. When Ronald Reagan walked into the press conference he called to discuss the denouement of the Achille Lauro hijacking, he was wearing a flesh- colored bandage on his nose. He opened with a jocular announcement: another cancerous growth had been removed, and "I can stand before you proudly and say my nose is clean...
...Hollywood failed and as the guy Rita Hayworth married before Aly Khan. Another generation thinks of him as a wine salesman, ballast at a Dean Martin Roast table and butt of Johnny Carson's "fat" jokes, all of which he bore with wounded dignity. Welles' premature burial in the flesh of his profligacy and self-destruction needs to be mourned. But it is helpful to recall that his life was not simply a cautionary fable. The man did make movies...
...ability to flesh out a character in a few deft strokes has made him one of Hollywood's most versatile leading men. But as his paintings attest, Gene Hackman, 55, enjoys working on canvas almost as much as on celluloid. During the 1950s the actor first took up the brush as an art student fresh out of the Marines and resumed in earnest about eight years ago. Though he finds painting "more serene" than acting, and has more than 100 oil landscapes and portraits to his credit, Hackman has neither the desire nor the time to mount a gallery show...
...screen, but the Safari suit-clad hero enters not reality, but the world of movie-madness, the realm of the film addict who knows reality too well to want to face it. "You're a wonderful person," Farrow tells her dream man when he arrives in the flesh. "You're fictional, but nobody's perfect...