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...almost radioactively-charged Family Home: Suburban Exterior, 1993, which made him justly famous. Along nearly 20m of nearby wall are hung the larger-than-life vignettes of suburban lounge rooms, many drawn from earlier works, which played like his Greatest Hits at Venice. Here, to walk before his Vulcan gas heater set on its throne of crazy paving is to feel the heat of a painter on fire. It's a show filled with prickly sensation...
...classic image of the TV superfan is the minutiae-obsessed, Vulcan-eared Star Trek fan, played by Jon Lovitz opposite William Shatner in a classic Saturday Night Live skit. Today the Lovitzization of entertainment is widespread. When Lost used stock footage from Norway to depict the founder of the Hanso Foundation--the apparent prime mover behind its conspiracy--Norwegian fans went nuts speculating over their homeland's connection to the mystery...
...Change is the essential process of all existence," Spock once said on Star Trek. This week marks the 40th anniversary of the show's first episode, and LEONARD NIMOY, who played the pointy-eared half-Vulcan for 25 years, seems to have made that onscreen line his offscreen credo. Now retired from show biz, Nimoy says photography is his "primary artistic expression." His dreamy images--many of women--are displayed in galleries across the country. He has published several books of his photos, usually accompanied by his poetry. His most recent, Shekhina, explores the mythological "feminine aspect...
...TEEN VULCAN? Get your polyester jumpsuits out of storage! Star Trek is not gone; it's just a little off orbit. Paramount announced the 11th Trek movie, to be directed by Mission: Impossible III tyro J.J. Abrams. And--you may want to sit down for this--Spock and Kirk are back. The film will center on the Starfleet Academy days of the duo, originally played by William Shatner and LEONARD NIMOY. The starship looked set for scrap after the 10th film and sixth TV series were busts. But don't line up for tickets yet. It's not due until...
...calling veteran journalists' credibility into question and permitting the prosecutors to call some of the most senior officials in the government, like the Vice President, to the stand. In an environment in which little to nothing has gone right for the White House, politics alone could compel a Vulcan like Libby to take one for the team...