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Looking like a cross between Hagar the Horrible and Rodin's The Thinker for his role in the film Conan the Barbarian, Bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger is clearly no dumbbell. He will be working out alongside Sandahl Bergman, who steamed up movie theaters in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz. Conan, about to go into production in Spain, is based on the 1930s sword-and-sorcery tales of Robert E. Howard. Schwarzenegger's main cause for thoughtful concern is the film's villain, Thulsa Doom, played by James Earl Jones, the ominous voice of Star Wars...
...Keyserling begged her to marry him, but she danced mockingly out of reach. The poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal, who saw in her "something of a lascivious young god in girl's clothes," confessed she caused him "a mysterious and sometimes very painful feeling of needing." Proust, Montesquiou, Rodin, Rilke, Giraudoux and George Moore were all bewildered or enslaved...
...study for the Rodin sculpture Burghers of Calais-not the final work-went for $255,237 in Monaco. The price set a record for any Rodin bronze...
...that there might be some resale market for the cunning purchaser, that a buyer today might be able to go out and resell his copy for a profit in the future. Don't count on it. Once the promotional steam clears, no one will be interested in a fake Rodin...
...student, I was greatly disheartened by Rockefeller's scheme to sell reproductions of his collection [Dec. 18]. I work hard on my original pieces. Yet how can I compete with timeless entities such as Rodin or Modigliani? These "clone"' collectors don't want art-they want status symbols. Why don't they buy a Mercedes instead? At least they can drive that...