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Southern California museums, galleries and art schools are thriving. Prominent New York--based art leaders like Ann Philbin and Gary Garrels are today director and chief curator, respectively, of UCLA'S Hammer Museum. James Wood, former director of the Art Institute of Chicago, arrived in February as president and CEO of the city's J. Paul Getty Trust. "Young artists no longer think they have to go to New York after they get their degrees," observes artist Baldessari. "For the galleries, it's like shooting fish in a barrel here?there is so much of a talent pool...
...Regis Philbin will raise at least $25,000 for charity in November...
...attract her kind of following by just being accessible, though. Ray, like Regis Philbin, is gifted at being on television. It's almost as if she has too much energy to interact with directly and has to be filtered by a screen. "She kind of explodes through the television in a way that few people do," says Brooke Johnson, president of the Food Network, which started airing...
Likewise, Philbin's carefully crafted irascibility is what allows the wealthy superstar to double as your crotchety 74-year-old uncle. At a recent Live with Regis and Kelly taping, he groused about sitting in first class on a flight from Italy, getting clocked in the head by people hauling their luggage to the back of the plane. "Nobody checks bags anymore!" he expostulated, while the audience--tourists in sweatshirts still damp from waiting for tickets in a pouring rain--hooted and laughed as a millionaire lectured them on how properly to fly coach...
Indeed, even Philbin--the guy who does monologues about every dinner he eats and when he hosted Millionaire proclaimed, "I'm saving the network!"--finally says the key to the job is remembering that it's not about you. Whether you're talking to George Clooney or a guy with an oven on his face, it's about "putting aside your ego and making your guests be better with you than they would with anybody else...