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Phillips has a new novel underway titled The Shadow Life. The book is a love story about the relationships between the heroine Mona, her war veteran boyfriend, and her two close female friends. Phillips's characters are much closer to her own age this time: the story begins when the women graduate from high school and follows their lives for the next ten years. Phillips has set aside this novel in order to finish her dissertation and receive her degree. When she graduates she intends to return to finish The Shadow Life and return to California...
...Perfect Moment" exhibit did. But the symbolism was enough to suffice. The artist, who died before the controversy reached its real boiling point, turned Jesse Helms and other politicians into kids at a peep show. For a brief moment in art history, "that bullwhip" was more famous than the Mona Lisa...
...BAND OF GOLD (HBO) This British mini-series about a group of prostitutes being stalked by a serial killer worked well as a thriller but even more effectively as a grim portrait of life in an impoverished English town. Cathy Tyson (Mona Lisa) played a beautiful streetwalker with an affecting, un-Pretty-Woman-ish realism...
Whistler's Mother remains his most famous painting--up there in the peculiar grab bag of images that for one reason or another, usually unconnected with their quality as art, everyone knows, like the Mona Lisa and Grant Wood's American Gothic. The picture that made his reputation was earlier, and better. Painted in 1862, it is a portrait of his Irish lover, Jo Hiffernan, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl. Shown in London first and then in Paris, it provoked a buzz of irrelevant interpretation. The expressionless young woman in virginal white, standing on a wolfskin with...
Marisa Tomei is impressive, almost a revelation. This is by far the best performance she has given on film. She mixes the earthiness of her Mona Lisa Vito in "My Cousin Vinny" with the delicacy and luminosity of her Faith in "Only You," and comes up with something altogether different and superior. Tomei gained 20 pounds for the role and has never looked better--voluptuous, sensual, kinetic and delicately beautiful. In addition, her accent is impeccable. She is at times almost steretypically overripe, and yet she creates a genuineness which saves the whole conceit. Every time she is onscreen...