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...would have liked it to have gone on. Years later she called him "the only one in that milieu who really turned me on." But Richardson surmises that Picasso was wary of her. "She was too much of a celebrity," he writes, "and not submissive enough...
...John Richardson is more familiar with the artist than anyone else. In the third volume of his massive biography (Knopf) he recounts these details...
Senior Brian Holmquest and freshman Claire Richardson led the Harvard cross country teams to top-eight finishes at the NCAA Northeast Regional meet on Saturday, rounding out the 2007 cross country season for the Crimson. The men’s team finished seventh in a 34-team field, while the women were eighth out of the same field.Holmquest, Harvard’s top finisher at the Ivy League Heptagonals Championships two weeks before, finished 23rd overall out of 235 competitors, clocking in at 30:29.95. “I got out pretty well, pretty controlled,” Holmquest said...
...black sheep of the Claus clan and Paul Giamatti as Santa, the picture's got three Academy Award winners: Kathy Bates as their mother, Rachel Weisz as Fred's ill-used girlfriend and Kevin Spacey as a corporate type threatening to close down Santa's workshop. Giamatti and Miranda Richardson, who plays his wife, have been Oscar-nominated. Even Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, who has a bit as the North Pole's DJ, is a Grammy-winner. From pedigree alone, the movie should have been good...
...even their employer is exploited: nagged by his parents, badgered by Fred, threatened with extinction by the Spacey character. The undercoat of sadness in Giamatti's performance has a number of explanation. Maybe it's because he read the script; or because as Richardson uncharitably reveals, "He's a closet eater." Or maybe Santa has heard the news about global warming, and is anxiously anticipates the North Pole's first snowless Christmas...