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...despite the "De" he affected, was not of noble blood--had married a French-Creole woman from New Orleans, Celestine Musson. She produced three sons and two daughters, of whom Edgar was the oldest. They were all raised in Paris, but both of Edgar's younger brothers, Rene and Achille, emigrated to New Orleans and went into the Musson family business, the cotton trade. Rene went back to Paris on business and persuaded his artist brother to go on a visit to New Orleans...
...Parisian as I am." In any case the outdoor glare pained his weakening eyes, which is why all his paintings from New Orleans are either interiors or portraits. He never painted the black women whose appearance struck him so forcibly. He concentrated on his own relatives, especially Estelle Musson, Rene's blind wife, for whom he felt strong pity and sympathy--"She manages it in an unprecedented manner... And there is no hope!" Invalids, like the Woman with Bandage, figure largely in his New Orleans work, reminding you what a plague spot the delta city...
...evidence that American bottoms are steadily widening, even though it's not easy to escape the conclusion that if this trend continues, we may, as a nation, run out of places to sit. The disquieting proof of our spreading behinds came to me via an admirably thorough piece by Rene Sanchez in the Washington Post, a piece that confirmed a vague feeling I'd been having on the subway lately that the seat running along most of the length of the car seemed awfully crowded considering how few people were sitting...
ROBERT DE NIRO, JASON ALEXANDER and RENE RUSSO are big stars, but they aren't the headliners on their current project. That honor falls to a computer-generated moose and squirrel. The movie, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, features De Niro as Fearless Leader, Alexander as Boris and Russo as Natasha; the critters will be added during editing. De Niro reports he had no difficulty shooting scenes with half the characters absent. "It's not hard unless you have a very emotional scene," he says. Which means we probably won't learn much about Bullwinkle's troubled childhood...
Through an ironic plot twist, Rene assumes Butterfly's role at the end of the play. He puts on a kimono and stabs himself in the chest as Song, who has the last word, calls out, "Butterfly? Butterfly...