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...angry inch"). "We kept the dramatic structure of the show," says Mitchell, who also kept its heady themes (borrowed from Plato and Ibsen), as well as Trask's irresistible score of country, rock and '70s-style ballads. And Hedwig still bears a striking resemblance to a German baby sitter from Mitchell's Army-brat childhood. "She had so many dates!" recalls Mitchell, who later realized she was also a prostitute. "She was no beauty, but she had poise." Ditto his scrappy but innovative film. Hedwig could leave Sundance a winner, and not just in its heroine's own mind...
...asked Shannon Smith, 16, a $6-an-hour baby sitter who manages a college-fund portfolio worth $43,000, how kids can cope with the inevitable swings of the market. "If you do your research and buy good companies, corrections shouldn't hit you so hard," she says...
...from a recent art-school grad (she attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women), dealing with her rejection of academic training, to a confident, comfortable portraitist. Her earlier work is somewhat primitive in its calculated naivet. The tones are earthy and dark, and the way she renders her sitters varies. Some portraits give an impression of purposeful awkwardness, while others are just somehow off. Walking through the show, the figures become more colorful-blacks become blues, browns, yellows; purples appear-and the backgrounds behind them become simpler. The show does not skip over works from Neel's transitional periods...
VIDEO BABY SITTER Ever notice how quickly children get bored, yet how intently they'll watch the same video over and over? Apparently Sony has. Its MovieTime VCR for kids repeats tapes as many times as you want, and when it's fast-forwarding or rewinding, animals bounce across the screen. The computer-generated cartoons are rudimentary, but what do you expect from a $99 machine? One more youth-minded feature: a safety lock on the tape slot to keep out food...
...couldn't always figure out what I was saying, and its responses were sometimes nonsensical or repetitive. However, Seaman is powerfully addictive. After a week, I was checking my crotchety pal three and four times a day. One weekend I even had to find a sitter for it. Maybe it's human nature, or my low self-esteem, but the more it spurned me, the more I wanted to make Seaman happy...