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...They have McDonald's at the George Sherman Student Union at B.U. and apparently it works really well," she said...
DIED. SANFORD MEISNER, 91, master acting teacher; in Sherman Oaks, California. An original member of the seminal 1930s Group Theatre--which also nurtured teaching greats Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Robert Lewis--Meisner coached actors to interact convincingly and to project emotional believability. Among his many students: Gregory Peck, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, and directors Sidney Lumet and Sydney Pollack...
...exhibition down-stairs at the Museum of Fine Arts contains only one celebrity portrait, which is thankfully not by Mr. Ritts. Despite a somewhat flimsy and overly ambitious curatorial premise, "Face and Figure" includes several strong works on the body by Ritts' more talented contemporaries, including Yasumasa Morimura, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Lorna Simpson, Catherine Opie and Gilbert and George. At their best, these artists more successfully use the face and body as a site of contention on which to explore questions of gender, race, sexuality and power...
...Cindy Sherman's "Untitled #282," originally made for an artist's project in Harper's Bazaar, provides another interesting comparison with Ritts' commercial photographs upstairs. Sherman, easily one of the most important photographers of the past fifteen years, photographs herself in various guises ranging from ingenue to Bacchus. In "Untitled #282," she lies before us in an outlandish, semi-transparent gauze dress by one of Madonna's favorite designers, Jean-Paul Gaultier. Her legs are slightly spread, but the voyeuristic gratification usually afforded us by such images is denied by our recognition of the opaque, flesh-toned tights which ascend...
...JOHN SHOEMAKER, 41; SHERMAN, TEXAS; dentist...