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...retrospect, there were signs that JODIE FOSTER was feeling a little clucky a long time ago. First there was her company's name, Egg Pictures, then her directorial debut, Little Man Tate, about raising a genius. Most recently there was the Showtime film for which she was executive producer, The Baby Dance. Now she has her own little man, Charles, who arrived last week, all 7.5 lbs. and 20.5 in. of him. Foster has steadfastly refused to name the father and intends to bring up the child alone, or as alone as movie stars ever...
Something, to its closing years at least. The fortunes of the Pre-Raphaelites, which went down the tubes after World War I, began to revive in the 1960s and were ratified by a big and hugely popular survey show at London's Tate Gallery in 1984. But the show that opened last week at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer," marks the centenary of his death and is by far the most lavish treatment that any Pre-Raphaelite has received from an American museum. It is large (more than 170 works), indeed...
...pieces sold at auction for $5.8 million), painted the statuesque wife of MICK JAGGER. Best known for disturbing portraits of fleshy naked women, Sigmund's grandson shows the leggy Texan both pregnant and with her then infant son. The paintings will be premiered at London's Tate Gallery on Wednesday...
...Bill Gates' pants off. ProComp, as it's called, will have help navigating D.C.'s treacherous lobbying shoals from ex-Senator and Visa pitchman Bob Dole as well as from such heavy hitters as ex-Federal Trade Commissioner Christine Varney, ex-FTC general counsel Kevin Arquit and Powell Tate, the p.r. firm headed by Carter White House vet Jody Powell and onetime Reagan aide Sheila Tate...
...there anything sweeter than the perfectly executed hoax? DAVID BOWIE, novelist William Boyd and others nearly pulled one off with the launch of the first book from Bowie's new publishing venture. It's Boyd's biography of little-known Abstract Expressionist painter NAT TATE, who, at 31, committed suicide after meeting Picasso and Braque and destroying most of his work, except the painting above. At the book party, English journalist David Lister asked guests if they had heard of Tate. Many had. Bad call. After very little digging, Lister discovered that Tate, photo and all, was a fiction. Boyd...