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...eight-foot-tall blue Russian who runs a circus of more-or-less trained mice; and Miss Spink (Jennifer Saunders) and Miss Forcible (Dawn French), a pair of venerable theatrical troupers endlessly recounting their glory days in the music hall. Coraline also meets a boy her age, Whybe Lovet (Robert Bailey Jr.), the grandson of the grande dame who owns the place, and a talking cat (Keith David) with dark secrets he eventually spills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chilly World of Coraline | 2/6/2009 | See Source »

Ginger Rogers was fashionable Sculptor Boris Lovet-Lorski's idea of the ideal model for a statue of the typical woman defense worker. He put her into plaster, standing on a pile of gears with a baby in one arm, a monkey wrench in the other. In her next movie, Lovet-Lorski's typical woman defense worker plays a typical woman defense worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 18, 1943 | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...moneyed uncle in Boston paid Sculptor Lovet-Lorski's passage to the U. S., of which he became a citizen in 1925. With a real talent for sculpture and a full bag of social tricks, "Lorochka" had no trouble in soon making a place for himself, has not lacked money, friends or customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lorochka | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

Except for his portraits, Sculptor Lovet-Lorski never uses a model, works out his slick archaic figures from his imagination and his knowledge of anatomy. He still does most of his work in Paris, cannot abide New York. In San Francisco his artistic patron is capable Robert Gump of the huge Gump store in whose galleries most of Lovet-Lorski's sculpture is shown. Last week Patron Gump had just found a new hilltop studio for his protege at No. 1048 Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lorochka | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

Fencing is Lovet-Lorski's favorite sport. He trained this summer with the Austrian Olympic team to keep in practice. Besides maintaining his San Francisco studio he spends several weeks every summer in Hollywood, roistering with friends in the cinema colony. They have not been entirely misspent holidays. Some time ago he completed bronze busts of his friends Rouben Mamoulian and Edward G. Robinson, and last winter Cinemactress Marion Davies persuaded William Randolph Hearst to buy a heroic Lovet-Lorski Venus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lorochka | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

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