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Virginia Museum Director Leslie Cheek has no doubt that the museum's new Watteau will be a smash hit. Says he: "Virginians traditionally have a fondness for 18th-century decor and architecture." And in Watteau they are getting what Director Cheek calls "probably the most important work of art the Virginia Museum has ever acquired...
...With the Hollywood première becoming gaudier every year, Los Angeles Columnist Kendis Rochlen handed out some tongue-in-cheek tips to première-goers. Two important rules: never show up on time ("Gauge your timing according to your prestige; no self-respecting big star would dream of showing up by 8:30"), and provide "double insurance" ("By accidentally dropping a glove or handkerchief and starting to lean over to pick it up, a star can often put her best features forward for the photographers...
...steady popularity as a family show because it offers light, semi-classic music that is sweet and sentimental. Its audio is not helped by a video that has a male model just sitting around while a soprano (Elaine Malbin) rather absentmindedly strokes his cheek and reaches, not always successfully, for high notes...
...heard.) And in all the final putting things to rights, there is no trace of irony. If Hollywood filmed Faust, Faust might be expected to beat the rap. If he beats the rap in a play at Hollywood's expense, surely the tongue should make the cheek at least faintly protrude...
...said drily, "have ... a head, two arms, a nose, a mouth." But only the weaver has a weaver's tooth (jagged from biting threads), only a peasant woman smoking a short-stemmed clay pipe has "the ulcer on her lower lip and the glossy scar on her left cheek indicating a superficial burn." Dr. Bell himself was delighted with Doyle's great detective, and liked to brag: "I am Sherlock Holmes...