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Trained as a painter, Orth got her Ph.D. at M.I.T.'s Media Lab, where she had an epiphany: "I thought, Wouldn't it be cool if you could make clothes that compute? There was something magical about that," she says. That led Orth to a jean jacket with a built-in synthesizer and a keypad embroidered on the lapel. Pressing different places on the jacket changes the electrical charge on the metal fibers and creates sounds...
...start until she was 65. As a teenager, she haunted the jazz clubs of New York City. Billie Holiday once encouraged her to try singing and gave her the name of an agent. Reiner didn't think she was "special enough" to be a singer. Instead, she became a painter so she could work at home while raising children. In 1980 Anne Bancroft, a friend, gave her a small role in the film Fatso. "I took some classes in acting. I studied with Lee Strasberg and other people," Reiner says. "But I realized what I really knew...
...DIED. JEAN-MICHEL FOLON, 71, Belgian-born painter and graphic artist whose work was familiar to millions from poster campaigns and magazine covers for The New Yorker, Esquire and TIME; in Monaco. An unwilling student of architecture, Folon left his hometown of Uccle, near Brussels, for Paris at the age of 21, but first found success in the U.S. with his eye-catching, whimsical pictures of birds, flying men, rainbows and billowy landscapes. Always prolific, Folon's style survived translation onto postage stamps, giant subway murals and, in later years, to animated films and sculpture...
...writer, David Benioff (“25th Hour”), leaves little room for McGregor to delve into his character’s idiosyncrasies. Perhaps the film’s most underused resource is Naomi Watts. Watts plays Lila, Dr. Foster’s once suicidal painter-girlfriend. However, her character adds so little to the storyline, one wonders if her only purpose is to serve as eye candy for the testosterone-charged twenty-something viewer. Her subplot—Dr. Foster discovers that Lila is no longer taking her Klonopin pills because she claims she can?...
...fame was largely due to his masterful painting of scenes charged with emotion. Much of it was sexual tension: while female models did not seem to arouse any particular passion in the painter, young boys with dreamy and inviting looks are a recurrent theme in his work...