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- May 23, 1994: People
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- May 23, 1994 Cosmic Crash
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- PEOPLE, Page 77
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- <body>
- <p>By Ginia Bellafante
- </p>
- <p>De Kooning Jr.
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- <p> Detractors of abstract painting typically criticize the genre
- with the words "My kid could do that." Few could make that claim
- as truthfully as the parents of Chicago seventh-grader LEO IONITA,
- who began painting when he was seven. Abstract works by the
- 13-year-old now sell for up to $4,000 and hang in 50 private
- collections around the world. The French tourism bureau has
- commissioned three of his paintings. Living in a converted windmill
- with his mother and father, Leo says he just wants to paint
- and if his art "goes anywhere as a business, that would be great."
- </p>
- <p>Off Again, Off Again
- </p>
- <p> America's favorite dysfunctional mom, ROSEANNE ARNOLD, is doing
- it again--getting divorced, that is, from hyperactive husband-producer
- TOM ARNOLD. Last month she withdrew her petition after three
- days, along with all those terrible things she said about his
- being a two-timing wife beater. This time she is simply citing
- irreconcilable differences. She adds that they have been separated
- since December. And that she wants to avoid paying him any alimony.
- </p>
- <p>Bard of Frankenstein
- </p>
- <p> He's been portrayed by Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi; he has
- endured space aliens, werewolves and awful directors. Now Frankenstein's
- monster is returning to the screen via the unschlocky lens of
- director KENNETH BRANAGH. "The themes in the book are more relevant
- today than ever," says Branagh, who plays the monster's creator,
- Dr. Victor Frankenstein. "The advances in genetic science become
- more extraordinary with each passing week." As the title, Mary
- Shelley's Frankenstein, suggests, Branagh's film, which also
- stars HELENA BONHAM CARTER as the scientist's fiance Elizabeth,
- attempts to distinguish itself from the camp versions of the
- story by remaining true to the text. The beast (played by Robert
- De Niro) remains the misunderstood creature Shelley intended.
- With its humanistic approach, says Branagh, the film is "more
- redolent of the delivery room than the lab."
- </p>
- <p>SEEN & HEARD
- </p>
- <p> It was not a good week for Hollywood B-list couples. After two
- years of marriage, half-pint singer Paula Abdul and The Mighty
- Ducks star Emilio Estevez split up amid tabloid rumors (denied
- by their publicists) that she has rekindled an affair with Full
- House cast member John Stamos and that Estevez has taken up
- again with former model Marla Hanson. But at least they gave
- it a couple of years. The marriage of Drew Barrymore and Welsh
- barkeep Jeremy Thomas lasted barely two months before the 19-year-old
- actress filed for divorce.
- </p>
- <p> For all those concerned about John Wayne Bobbitt, there is good
- news. On Inside Edition this week, the dismemberment victim,
- who has a new fiance, reveals that he is fully operational.
- "It's like it was before," he says, referring to his celebrated
- surgically reattached organ. "There's no problem."
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