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...veejay Matt Pinfield, a bald, overweight, 34-year-old ex-radio station manager and Uncle Fester lookalike whom the Tiger Beat editors consistently overlook. Pinfield, though, knows music; his long-running alternative-rock show, 120 Minutes, had a ring of authenticity that veejays like Simon Rex, hottie though he may be, just couldn't deliver. Pinfield plays host on several shows that cross a range of musical genres, something MTV is able to do now that pop is resurfacing and breaking down the old barriers. "Our audience is smarter than people give them credit for," he says, leaning forward...
...Landscape with Smokestacks for $850,000. Now, 10 years later, the 71-year-old philanthropist faces a major lawsuit filed by the heirs of Holocaust victims who claim that the painting was stolen from their relatives by the Nazis. "My family was murdered, their possessions destroyed or stolen," says Simon Goodman, a Los Angeles businessman who, together with his brother and aunt, is suing Searle. "These works are all that is left of our heritage, so we want the painting back." The two sides are holding talks that, if not successful, will set the stage for what is likely...
...odyssey of the Goodman family's Degas may have much in common with hundreds of lost works. Landscape with Smokestacks first came into the family on June 9, 1932, when it was acquired at a Paris auction for 10,000 francs (U.S. dollar equivalent at that time, $740) by Simon's grandfather, Friedrich Gutmann, a German-Jewish banker living in Holland. With the onset of World War II, part of the family collection, which included 10 Old Masters and several other Impressionist canvases, was sent to France for safekeeping, only to be seized there by the Nazis. When Germany invaded...
Consider two new sequels by a couple of very good writers, Larry McMurtry (Comanche Moon; Simon & Schuster; 752 pages; $28.50), and Peter Matthiessen (Lost Man's River; Random House; 539 pages; $26.95). Each lengthy book has its strong points, and each is worth a reader's time; but for quite different reasons, neither entirely works...
...complex team effort. But as Ambrose bluntly says of World War II, "None of this would have mattered if the infantry had failed to do its duty, because in the end it came down to the poor sons-of-bitches making the attack." The proof is in Citizen Soldiers (Simon & Schuster; 512 pages; $27.50), Ambrose's 20th book and a high point of his long fascination with the nature of leaders and followers...