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...forms, is threatening to pull funding from the city's large but little-known Brooklyn Museum of Art, where a new show called "Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection" is scheduled to open in early October. The exhibit, which drew more than 300,000 visitors during its stint in London, features the familiar animal-in-formaldehyde installations by consummate shockmeister Damien Hirst, as well as works by Chris Ofili, Marcus Harvey and 39 others. Visitors who make it past Hirst?s ill-fated animals will never mistake this show for an Impressionist retrospective: Ofili?s work "The Holy...
...Microsoft stint lasted 13 years, during which he started the company's multimedia division and worked on applications for the Macintosh before Apple's famous computer had even been introduced...
Rock quit school and, after a stint as a busboy at Red Lobster, launched a comedy career. He was a clueless 17-year-old, playing small clubs around New York like the Comic Strip, trying to read the crowd, trying to milk laughs, usually failing. He wasn't making much--the Comic Strip paid $7 a set during the week, $40 on weekends--but he was trying to get his name out there, trying to build a rep. His big joke was this: "Woman comes up to me, says she'll do anything for me, anything. So I say, 'Bitch...
FRANK GIBNEY JR. joined the magazine in 1994 when he opened TIME's Vietnam bureau in Hanoi. In 1998, after a stint in Tokyo, he moved to New York to cover international business. But his experience as a U.S. correspondent also proved valuable last week when he wrote about the shootings at the North Valley Jewish Community Center. This week Gibney returns to business, scrutinizing the market issues that are forcing automobile companies to make design a strategic weapon. "I gained an appreciation for just how complicated it is to come up with any product that is both artful...
...month, the tormented actor returned to prison for violating probation on a 1996 drug conviction. But if his prior incarceration is any guide, he will encounter a panoply of cinematic possibilities, whether he wants to or not. In a forthcoming book by director Mike Figgis, Downey recounts having a stint in solitary confinement interrupted by a prison deputy. "This guy says, 'I hope I wouldn't be crossing the line if I brought a script by. It's about unicorns...'" Even in prison, everyone wants to direct...