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...Laurel and Hardy decision was followed by yet another ruling that says the right of publicity can survive the death of the celebrity. Federal Judge Charles H. Tenney stopped several companies from distributing posters and other items like iron-on patches that featured Presley's portrait. Two months later, in a federal court in Tennessee, Presley memorabilia were at issue again, and the judge followed Tenney's lead by forbidding the sale of $25 statuettes of the singer...
...traces the scope and course of her life, from her rambunctious childhood--she had an energy for knowledge matched by few--from her days as a heady Radcliffe student to her flirtations with socialism and her voyages and work for the blind. The Helen that emerges from Lash's portrait is a woman with "an inexhuastive capacity for enthusiasm and hope." As he does frequently throughout the book, Lash lets Helen describe herself to the reader. After she read Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, Helen wrote a friend that she had found much of the protagonist...
...favored-director status goes to Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky's brother Nikita Mikhalkov, 34. His Slave of Love was one of the few recent Soviet films to receive critical acclaim and a measure of box-office success when it was released in the U.S. last year. A touching, gently comic portrait of a movie company on location in 1917, Slave of Love shows a group of innocents trying to avoid being caught up in the revolution. In Five Evenings, Mikhalkov tells the story of a middle-aged man and woman trying to pick up the threads of a romance they were...
Robert Hughes' article was cogent, incisive, powerful-a word portrait worthy of Picasso's Picassos...
...gold. These will be medallions-and not gold coins-and thus cannot be used at the corner drugstore. They will be sold through post offices, with the cost being set at the daily gold price plus a handling charge of about $15. The ½oz. version will bear a portrait of Singer Marian Anderson, and Painter Grant Wood appears on the 1-oz. piece. Over the next five years a total of ten medallions will be issued, honoring American artists ranging from Mark Twain to Louis Armstrong. Since less than 4% of the population currently hold gold, precious-metals dealers...