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...Last week the 24-year-old Krayzelburg called on both aspects of his background to win three gold medals and lead an underrated U.S. team to an astounding 33 medals in the pool. In a week in which some big fish got reeled in - Australian sensation Ian Thorpe, Dutch wonderboy Pieter van den Hoogenband and the Russian Rocket, Alexander Popov, each found himself bettered in one race or another - nobody caught Krayzelburg. Indeed, after a rough start, the rest of the U.S. team outswam the favored Australians, who performed before raucous hometown crowds. Swimming is the Olympics in Australia...
...where Rodriguez aced out other contenders, Kusama sent her to the gym and made her train for a week before awarding her the part. Then the director gave the feisty upstart a small stipend to live on, enrolled her in acting classes, and loaded her up with stacks of background material. There were videos of brooding, gutsy movies like "A Streetcar Named Desire," "A Woman Under the Influence," "Gloria" and "The Hustler," along with method acting manuals by Stanislavski and Uta Hagen...
...advertisers and their agencies, for reasons too complex to fit on a placard. And they were finding that not only they but their cause remained unknown. "This isn't about the celebrities," Tim Robbins says. "It's about the 'second doctor from the right,' the people in the background shots - actors struggling to make a living." Just the problem: The strikers weren't famous, not even almost. What they needed was star quality...
...this whole family better still, at least I shall have done something to my liking and something individual.' The placement of two different versions of a portrait of Augustine and the different versions of 'The Postman Joseph Roulin' make clear van Gogh's desire to see how background affects mood, reflecting an artist at play and alive...
...last paintings in the exhibit - 'Adeline Ravoux' (1890), a girl with blond hair painted against a black background, and 'Portrait of a Girl' (1890), a girl with black hair painted against a white background - strangely summarize van Gogh's career as an artist and his emotional maturation. He could appreciate color, but in the end, the contrast between color and darkness, or his madness, was too much for him. As his brother Theo wrote, 'Life was such a burden to him, but now, as often happens, everyone is full of praise for his talents...