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...bundled in his greatcoat, the young man stares defiantly at passersby as if to say that although he is only 19, he already knows that he will dominate the art world for the rest of his life. If anyone doubts the implicit truth of Pablo Picasso's 1901 self-portrait, he has only to walk farther into Paris' new Picasso Museum, which opened last week. There, spread out like all the treasures from Aladdin's cave, are the gems of nearly three-quarters of a century of labor: 228 paintings, 149 sculptures, nearly 1,500 drawings and just as many...
Higham has made a cottage industry out of Hollywood biographies (Kate, Marlene, Bette, etc.), and now, by expanding his field from an analysis of Welles' films to a full-scale biography, he balances his harsh criticism of his subject's eccentricities with an admiring portrait of the young Welles as a brilliant innovator on stage and radio. But, the author notes, even then there was "the megalomania that would soon consume him." And he holds to his view that when Welles flew off to Rio to film the carnival without finishing the editing of The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), when...
Although Higham's book suffers from his inability to talk to Welles, it nonetheless seems a more accurate portrait than Leaming's collection of quotations from her hero. Still, if Welles had never started a single film after Citizen Kane, he would remain one of Hollywood's great creators. Now that cinema has become a major field of study in academia, several surveys have shown that Citizen Kane is by far the most thoroughly explicated film. So there is a place in the classroom for The Making of Citizen Kane. Robert L. Carringer, an associate professor of English and cinema...
...SURPRISING that the characters in Anne Tyler's latest family portrait, The Accidental Tourist, suffer from "geographic dyslexia." Like her usual cast of eccentric homebodies, members of the Leary family tend to become disoriented anytime they stray too far from the familiar hearth. Regardless of how tempting the escape, something--guilt, injury, an Oedipal chord, the boys eating too much glop for breakfast--inevitably draws them back to the comfort and complacency of home, sweet home...
...that are headed his way, Reagan seems to derail a lot of them. As another occupant of the Oval Office, Calvin Coolidge, said, "If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you." Coolidge's portrait still hangs in the Cabinet Room for daily inspiration...