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...blockbuster exhibit rethinks boho star Modigliani...
...DIED. Franco Modigliani, 85, Italian-born Nobel Prize-winning economist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A Jewish former law student who fled Mussolini's regime in 1938, he was best known for his influential theories on the way people save money. Previously it was widely assumed that only the rich saved; he proposed that people at all income levels save money and spend...
...somewhere in the surrealist realm of wretched excess, offering more than 700 drawings, photographs, collages, film clips, set and costume designs, letters, manuscripts and bits of memorabilia. There are portraits of Cocteau by Jacques-Emile Blanche, Man Ray, Picasso and Andy Warhol, and portraits by Cocteau of Modigliani, Picasso and Kisling, each done in the sitter's own style. It's all in dire need of editing, but remains surprisingly good entertainment, which is appropriate for a man who had more than one talent to amuse...
...evening even wandered from the realm of serious music and ventured briefly into improv territory. O’Malley plays piano for Immediate Gratification Players (IGP), a campus improv comedy troupe, and he briefly presented a routine with fellow IGP member David Modigliani...
...style of the television show “Whose Line is it Anyway?” Modigliani asked the crowd for a non-geographic location—the audience suggested IHOP, the International House of Pancakes—and proceeded to make up a story on the spot, basing the plot on O’Malley’s thematic accompaniment...