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...Have you noticed on The Swan that after all that plastic surgery, most of the women look like drag queens...
CLINTON KELLY, host of TLC's What Not to Wear, on competing makeover show The Swan, on which contestants not only are told what to wear but are also given a great deal of plastic surgery...
...helicopter on stage in the musical Miss Saigon, crashed a chandelier on the audience in The Phantom of the Opera, and re-created Paris barricades in Les Mis?rables. Schumacher turned the stalls into a jungle in The Lion King, and Bourne made audiences swoon over a flock of male swans in his interpretation of Swan Lake. The team hopes not only to repeat these successes but to surpass them. Mackintosh admits to having "put more money into this show than any other" (the producers won't divulge figures, but the budget is rumored to be over $14 million). Advance bookings...
...figurative painting. Woman I and the ferocious series of Woman canvases that followed were brutally funny emblems of male fear and desire, hellcats born not only out of ancient myth and American pop culture but also from de Kooning's personal supply of awe and anger. As Stevens and Swan make clear, throughout his life his dealings with women were heedless and narcissistic. Though he never divorced his wife Elaine--like him a painter and heavy drinker who slept around with abandon--he fathered a child by another woman, set up the occasional household with still others and carried...
...Kooning: An American Master (Knopf; 732 pages), you get a full sense of de Kooning's quiet charm and his rollicking genius. What you also grasp is his stupendous gift fOr self-destruction. Mark Stevens, the art critic for New York magazine, and his wife, writer Annalyn Swan, have produced a superb biography, thorough and surefooted. It's a book full of nuanced readings of de Kooning's work and sympathetic but dry-eyed accounts of his very disordered life, especially in the 1970s and '80s. Those were the years when he was treated as a national treasure, even...