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...FOUR: Grant and Hurley, reunited at an English country house, lunch in range of telephoto lenses. Titillating reports circulate of a double bed being delivered. Madame Tussaud's says it will not drop plans for creating a wax effigy of Grant. Day's Big Rumor: No one will remember any of this next week...
...American TV executives are at the same threshold. With help from Saunders and AbFab script editor Ruby Wax, Roseanne has reworked the teleplay for her pilot episode three times in an effort to appease ABC bosses. "The first script I turned in was almost exactly what they would have done at the BBC," she says. But the network executives balked at the drug and alcohol references. Edina and Patsy, who may be played in the American version by Carrie Fisher and Barbara Carrera, "won't be swilling Bollinger and vodka," says Roseanne, "but we will imply...
...predilection for scandal. In 1909, to cite one notorious example, he abandoned his first wife and their six children to carry on a flagrant affair with a client's spouse. One result of Wisconsin's ambivalence: while the state has several houses and a still remarkable corporate headquarters (Johnson Wax in Racine) that bear Wright's distinctive stamp, it has no major public building designed...
...early Nauman photo pieces like Self-Portrait as a Fountain, 1966-67, the artist expelling a jet of water through his pursed lips. And it is fully in the tradition of Marcel Du-champ, whose puns were equally feeble. An early Nauman like From Hand to Mouth, 1967 (a wax cast of the artist's arm, shoulder and throat) is a retread of Duchamp's 1959 With My Tongue in My Cheek, a cast of the old dandy's cheek delicately swollen by the pressure of his tongue inside...
...recited by Nauman: "Get out of this room. Get out of my mind." The paranoid intensity of this cell has to be experienced to be believed. Another is a video piece: the projected image of a mime, with a chair suspended from the ceiling behind it and a green wax head on the chair. A disembodied voice, calm and in control, first tells the mime, "Shit in your hat," which he pretends to do, and then runs through a set of other instructions, which are obediently acted out; the result is an effective metaphor of weakness and humiliation...