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...Berry-Hill Galleries in New York City. Titled "Miss Piggy's Art Masterpieces: Treasures from the Kermitage Collection," the show will feature such dubious classics as Rodin's The Smooch, Botticelli's The Birth of You Know Who, and the piece of resistance, Da Vinci's The Mona Piga. Like other celebrated art collectors, Miss Piggy has already developed a philanthropic streak: the proceeds from the exhibit will be donated to the pediatrics department of New York City's Lenox Hill Hospital. With love from...
...flipped a switch and Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece was suddenly projected, in garish colors, on a ten-foot television screen. "But I thought the Mona Lisa was a painting," objected one astonished tourist. "Not any more," responded the guide. "We feel that if videotape had been around in Leonardo's time, he would have used it." The tour moved on. "On the next screen we have the fabulous Winged Victory...
...packed music tent last week (and not only because of the 30° F weather) when Peter Blake, chairman of the department of architecture and planning at Catholic University of America, showed slides of the future as envisioned in the past. The "ideal cities" of Leonardo da Vinci or Etienne-Louis Boullée, although devoid of people, were at least images of fantastic beauty. The modern future, as imagined by Antonio Sant Elia in 1914, Ludwig Hilberseimer in 1928 and Le Corbusier in 1934, has a nightmarish, totalitarian quality, akin to George Orwell's 1984 foreboding...
...worked with in one all-caps assault: "THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF WHAT THEY HAVE TO 'SAY' CANNOT COVER THE BOTTOM OF EVEN A SMALL TEACUP." This blanket statement unravels in the book's last section, in which Goldman describes trying to rewrite his old short story "Da Vinci" as a screenplay and handing it to a respected editor, cinematographer, composer, designer, and director for comments. Not only does the director, George Roy Hill, have a cupful of comments, but he also puts Goldman's hackneyed theme-the impossibility of an artist succeeding in today's world-in proper perspective, something...
...continue to plug away? Well, for one thing, if his short story "Da Vinci" is any indication, none of Goldman's twelve novels will ever become standard high school curriculum. Pauline Kael once said, "If you're hoping for elegance, don't begin with William Goldman." As Adventures makes clear, he even has trouble writing complete sentences. Screenwriting is such a natural for him that he relates important episodes of his life in script format. Besides, boyhood entrenchment, wider audiences-not to mention the pay-keeps luring him out to Hollywood...