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Willard Scott is the saving grace of Today? His effect is more like pouring corn syrup over a previously digestible bacon-and-eggs breakfast. The freshest moment I've heard on the show occurred when Mariette Hartley told Willard to go and eat his flower...
Silverman did urge the hiring of Actress Mariette Hartley, best known for her sassy role opposite James Garner in the Polaroid commercials. She was brought in last summer to substitute for Pauley, who was getting married to Cartoonist Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury). Though no one said as much, it seemed clear that if Hartley had done well, the job might have been hers. She did not impress NBC, however-the result of sabotage from the staff, according to Hartley-and Pauley's contract was extended three years...
Franz Marc and the Blue Rider group welcomed him; Kandinsky discoursed to him on the law of form. Hartley was also in love with a handsome young German officer, Karl von Freyburg. He evolved the style Haskell so admires, a kind of syn thetic cubism heavily studded with military symbols and panoply, most conspicuously the Iron Cross itself. Von Freyburg was killed in the early months of the first World War. The result was the Portrait of a German Officer, which even incorporates Von Freyburg's initials in its lower left corner...
Back in New York in 1916, Hartley was stunned when his German military paintings were received with hostility by a public that was increasingly anti-German. His confidence seemed shattered. He sat out the war in Provincetown and Bermuda. In 1921 he returned to Europe, wandering from Paris to Berlin to Florence to Rome...
Finally Stieglitz, who felt Hartley's pictures had become unsuccessful derivatives of European models, brusquely advised him to return to the U.S. In 1930 Hartley gave in and sailed home again...