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DIED. BOBBY SHORT, 80, boyishly exuberant cabaret performer who became a symbol of Manhattan sophistication, drawing glitterati from Woody Allen (who featured Short in two movies) to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor; in New York City. With a repertoire that included raspy celebrations of Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Fats Waller, Short began his career at age 11 as the Miniature King of Swing and was a fixture at New York City's Carlyle Hotel for 36 years. After attempting to retire from that job last year, he planned to make this season his last...
Want a job that allows you to mingle with movie glitterati (without having to live among them) and show films in your own private theater? It may be too late. Washington institution Jack Valenti, who for 37 years has headed the Motion Picture Association of America, the Hollywood studios' lobbying group, is finally ready to retire, and sources tell TIME the choices to succeed him have been narrowed to two Louisianians. One whose name has been floated for months is Congressman Billy Tauzin, Republican chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Tauzin has strong backing from Disney, but that...
...frantic social life among the glitterati continued to the end. But De Salvo wanted to avoid "fetishizing the celebrity persona at the expense of looking at the work," preferring to present him as any other painter. Warhol, Pop Art pioneer, didn't live to see his prediction about fame come horribly true. He died unexpectedly in 1987 following a gall-bladder operation - in a hospital. He claimed his work was all surface and described himself as "deeply superficial." But somehow he raised shallowness to new heights...
Sounds easy, right? Tell the truth--it sounds so basic, so simple, such a small part of a filmmaker's art. Yet again and again, the glitterati of Southern California manage to take the world we inhabit, shake it around a little and then filter it through a peculiar, politically correct prism. The result can be viewed in any movie about Washington politics ("The American President," "Dave," "The Contender," and so forth), in which the evil, cigar-smoking and preferably slightly deformed Republicans are defeated by a noble, principled, sexy liberal who just wants to pass a gun control bill...
DIED. HORST, 93, photographer of the rich and fashionable; in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Born Horst P. Horst, he infused his dramatic, stylized shots of such glitterati as Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel and Andy Warhol with ashtrays and other everyday details, assuring worried fashion editors that "my best pictures always have a little mess...