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...performances; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. He was known, to his occasional annoyance, as a woman's director for his ability to evoke inspired work from many of the great actresses of the 1930s and '40s, including Academy Award-winning performances by Ingrid Bergman (in Gaslight, 1944) and Judy Holliday (in Bom Yesterday, 1950) and memorable ones by Greta Garbo in Camille, Judy Garland in A Star Is Born, and Katharine Hepburn, Cukor's discovery, in ten productions, including The Philadelphia Story and Adam's Rib. Cukor also directed James Stewart, Ronald Colman...
...floors of the historic west wing, labored over by 2,000 construction workers and hundreds of special craftsmen, do gleam with turn-of-the-century opulence. From 6,000 sq. ft. of marble mosaic floors, up monumental stairways, past trompe I'oeil wall panels, rich brocaded drapes and gaslight-era crystal chandeliers to the newly bronzed dome, the 66 rooms resound with memories of cattle barons, gold-rush millionaires and homesteaders from earlier eras. One carefully repaired mosaic depicts Minerva deep in thought, accompanied by the state symbol: a grizzly bear. That symbolic partnership of classical restraint and belligerent...
...young artist in Paris at the turn of the century, such material could not last forever, and not all Picasso's experiences were gaslight and garters. Living in poverty in the little Spanish artists' colony in Montparnasse, he identified himself in a sentimental way with the wretched and down-and-out of Paris, the waifs and strays. This wistful misérabilisme, verging on allegory, was the keynote of his so-called Blue Period. Late in 1901 he had painted some Gauguin-like figures, using the characteristic flat silhouettes and solid blue boundary lines that Gauguin, in his turn, had extracted...
...first, the house seemed ideal, a perfect setting for EJ.'s Queen Anne furniture. At night, the street was softly illuminated by gaslight. Then E.J.'s luck began to change. First someone ripped the radio out of her sports car. Then, in mid-November, a far more serious episode occurred: a bearded man in his 20s broke into the house and raped her. Her reaction was bizarre. "If I had to be raped," she told a friend, "I'm glad that he was the man who did it. He didn't abuse me. He didn...
...from a Paris street, including his stunted self, back turned, urinating on the turf of Parnassus. Lautrec thought the timeless and the eternal a boring joke, and in At the Moulin Rouge he offered the alternative: let the aesthetes dedicate themselves to Higher Thought, but he would stick with gaslight, friends and the fallen soul...