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...Gerolimatas said she also paints still-lifes and landscapes and said she is particularly proud of her portraits of her parents—a portrait of her mother was, in fact, her first painting...
...BELTWAY BOOKS: On May 13, Simon & Schuster will publish "Citizen McCain" by Elizabeth Drew. Kirkus gives the book a thumbs up. "Washington insider and accomplished journalist Drew provides a fly-on-the-wall portrait of the congressional maverick and his struggle to reform campaign-finance laws...Drew clearly approves of McCain, though never so much as to allow partisanship to get in the way of her usual careful reporting. A useful expos? of how things get done - and buried - in Washington...
...DIDN?T START THE FIRE: On May 29, Hyperion will publish "Firehouse" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam. The book will be a portrait of Engine 40 Ladder 35 on W. 66th Street, which lost 12 men in the WTC attack. According to the publisher, "In the tradition of John Hersey?s ?Hiroshima,? Halberstam tells the story of the community within this firehouse, before, during and after the cataclysmic events of September 11th." The book grew out of an article commissioned by Vanity Fair, where Halberstam is a contributing editor...
Despite all of these activities, Farrell insists he gets eight hours of sleep a night. “Sleep is really a priority,” Farrell says. He also finds time for hobbies. He enjoys portrait sculpture—something he picked up while at summer art school in Florence, Italy. “I’ve always thought art and film were really interesting,” Farrell says. He also cultivates an interest in French lawn sports. “When the weather’s nice, I like to play petanque, which is a lawn...
...because the University’s portrait collection is composed solely of gifts, the only way to increase the number of monuments to women on Harvard’s campus is for people to commission such works, according to Grindlay...