Word: botticellis
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...Something's Got to Give, and perfectionist Director George Cukor said no to the flesh-colored "nude suit" Marilyn wanted to wear. Cukor cleared the set of "all males not actually involved in the production," admonished electricians to "turn around," and Marilyn slipped into the pool like Botticelli's Venus, while cameras whirred. As she paddled around, the chief electrician shouted, "Bobby, make your No. 10 a little higher." It was later reported that at this point Marilyn said very distinctly: "I hope Bobby is a girl...
...dived into the mottled blue-green Aegean, and when she came up, all dripping and skin-soaked, the sea had yielded its finest vision since Botticelli painted Aphrodite on her shell...
...winner of the Prix de Rome at 21, Gussow learned in Europe "not how to paint, but how to love art. When I went over," he confides with some embarrassment, "I hadn't even heard of Botticelli." He stayed in Europe two years, devouring the museums, but it was not until he got back home that his own work seemed to take on meaning. Gussow found his inspiration in the countryside most familiar to him-the hills and valleys around Congers, N.Y., where he bought a house, and the sea around Maine's Monhegan Island, where he spends...
...island of Manhattan will find an island of traffic-free calm and beauty during the Christmas rush. Illuminated color transparencies of 25 Renaissance masterpieces in full size tell the Christmas story with remarkable fidelity. There are reproductions of paintings and frescoes by such masters as El Greco, Botticelli, Van Eyck, Gozzoli, Giorgione and Bellini. Among them is Raphael's Alba Madonna, shown here. TIME readers may remember seeing it in color in our Nov. 24 issue, for when Andrew Mellon paid the Russians $1,166,400 for it back in 1931, it was the largest sum ever paid...
...During her freshman year at Vassar, Brooke met Michael Thomas, a Yale sophomore whom she "loathed on sight." He wooed her persistently by effective intellectual maneuvers-"He'd sit as far away as possible from me in the taxi and read his term paper on Botticelli." In the summer of 1956, Brooke traveled with her family through Europe, met Mike in Paris and eloped with him two weeks later. "We didn't tell our families until September, by which time I was thoroughly pregnant." While Mike finished up at Yale, they lived in New Haven, "living literally...