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Directed by Peter Bogdanovich Screenplay by Howard Sackler, Paul Theroux and Peter Bogdanovich...
Directed by Jeannot Szwarc Screenplay by Carl Gottlieb and Howard Sackler...
GRAY LADY DOWN Directed by David Greene Screenplay by James Whittaker and Howard Sackler...
...Fogg's opening reception on Valentine's Day, Sackler was elusively sociable, passing from group to group and pausing in each just long enough to make an appropriate comment. These conversational pebbles rippled through each social pool they were tossed into; returning to Tao'chi's peonies half an hour after first passing them, you heard those still standing in front of the painting repeating, to those passing by, Sackler's comparison of Tao'chi's flowers with a Mondrain painting of chrysanthemums "that he has at home." The point of the anecdote seemed to have vanished, however, somewhere...
...exhibit speaks for itself," as Sackler says. It does so with an aristocratic magnificence; these paintings know they are masterpieces and carry themselves, accordingly, like emperors. The Fogg's exhibit, with its dark brown frames against cream walls, has created an appropriate space and silence for these works to stand and speak in. Though the descriptions of each work (abbreviated from the catalogue entries) are unobtrusive and informative, you don't need such letters of introduction to these paintings. The works in the Sackler collection are approachable at all levels of sophistication in a way that is unusual...