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Barry Diller forsakes Hollywood glitz for TV's future...
...BOTTOM LINE: Koons adds a depressing footnote to Pop art with his self- promoting devotion to gloss and glitz...
Koons' work is a late footnote to Pop art that relies on one obsessive device: the exaggeration of the aura of consumer objects, a devotion to gloss and glitz. An ice bucket or a set of "limited-edition" whiskey bottles in the form of a choo-choo train is recast in stainless steel; a porcelain effigy of Michael Jackson with his pet ape is slathered in bright gold glaze. Once in a while, Koons contrives an image of curious intensity, such as Rabbit, 1986, a stainless-steel cast of an inflatable plastic bunny, once pneumatic, now rigid and manically shiny...
...such. Don't worry about the politics: there isn't any. This six-part dance suite is set to a yawping, march-based score by Wynton Marsalis and played by the trumpeter and his band. The choreography, by City Ballet's artistic director, Peter Martins, is pure syncopated glitz -- down, dirty and eye dazzling. It's an occasion for some of the company's stars -- led by Yvonne Borree, as perky as a coffeemaker -- to slink and stretch, vamp and vogue, wiggle their butts and show off. You'd think Bob Fosse's Broadway rather than George Balanchine's Lincoln...
...just that simple: if you're going to run this country, you've got to master a few basics. Perot elevated the tone of the campaign by lowering the glitz with a series of televised voter seminars on the deficit and other thorny topics. Although he lost the presidency, he won a consolation prize: Advertising Age named him Adman of the Year. If there have to be infomercials, this is what they ought to be like...