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...York City. The 100 oil paintings by 37 mostly Impressionist painters have already wowed crowds and critics in both London and Boston. The exhibit ranges from portraits to cityscapes to glimpses into the studio life. Cassatt's severe and pensive mother makes a showing in drab black dress, a prim contrast to Thomas Hovenden's slumped self-portrait (1875), pictured...
DIED. Isabel Bigley, 80, Bronx-born stage and TV actress best known for creating the role of Sarah Brown, the prim missionary who falls in love with gambler Sky Masterson and sings of her passion in the signature tune If I Were a Bell ("If I were a bell, I'd be ringing ... if I were a lamp, I'd light"), in the 1950 Broadway hit Guys and Dolls; in Los Angeles. Undeterred by a rehearsal during which fiery composer Frank Loesser, underwhelmed by her rendition of Bell, slapped her in the face, Bigley won a Tony Award...
...exhibit ranges from portraits to cityscapes to glimpses into the studio life. Cassatt's severe and pensive mother makes a showing in drab black dress, a prim contrast to Thomas Hovenden's slumped self-portrait (1875). But the star of the show is John Singer Sargent's notorious Madame X (1884), herself an American transplant who moved to Paris as a child, and who, like her expat painter, would always be an outsider in her adopted city.
...values, law and order, and the virtue of discipline. Although a card-carrying member of France's political élite, she has cultivated a populist image by canvassing the opinions of ordinary citizens, whom she calls the "legitimate experts" on France's problems. In person, she listens with the prim attentiveness of a Catholic schoolgirl. Yet she has no false modesty over paparazzi adulation, shrugging at photos of her in a bikini that caused a stir this summer. As she says in an interview aboard a train between Poitiers and Paris, her two main political bases, "Why should one have...
...received wisdom (mostly emanating from people who don't go very often to them), movies need to be sexy. This is, I think, the prime source of their best energy, and for years now - we're no longer merely talking about summer '06 here - American films have largely been prim and sniggering, full of gorgeous people, all obviously capable of putting passionate moves on one another, but somehow not getting...