![]() One of my favourite videos of Sean is backstage at the Norwegian comedy festival. He had a playful side a wide-eyed wonder at the world.īack in the 90s I used to carry a camcorder with me everywhere I went. People are tempted to pigeonhole him as dark or surreal but he was more than that. “A hospice, what’s that like?” “It’s OK,” he said “… and the sex is amazing.” I heard he was in a hospice for a bit of a rest. He took his illness in typically dry style. That’s why he was so often called “the comedian’s comedian”. “So I was killing this pig with a hammer …”Īt his best, Sean reminded us all what we loved about a great gag and why we got into comedy in the first place. Often I had absolutely no idea where he was heading with a routine. Not so with Sean, that’s why we comics loved him. If you tell jokes for a living it’s hard to enjoy a comedian in the same way that a punter would, because you know all the tricks, you can see where a gag is going and often arrive at the punchline long before the comic telling it. I looked round and all the comics on the bill had come out to watch him. I was laughing so hard, literally doubled up. He had a crazily funny routine about winning a night out with Madonna: a beautiful bit of material which involved Sean scuttling about back and forth on stage – he was a lovely mover. I hadn’t seen him live for a while and made sure I stood in the wings to watch his act. The last time I was on a standup bill with him was at a benefit for some good cause or other. ‘Often I had absolutely no idea where he was heading with a routine. I always insisted on being on his team because, truth be told, I was only there because I liked seeing myself on TV sat next to the great Sean Lock. ![]() I don’t tend to do panel shows but he encouraged me to do that one “It’ll be the easiest money you’ve ever earned Harry!” he said. “I don’t want to encourage them,” he replied with a grin. “Why don’t you just fake a laugh?” I asked him. On 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown – which became a great platform for his brilliant mind and brought him to a wider audience – he’d laugh like a drain if he liked what you’d done, but occasionally I noticed that the camera would cut to him looking stony faced. Professionally, he worked hard at being funny, and woe betide anyone who didn’t match his high standards. He was smart enough to marry Anoushka, who is more than his equal, because I’m sure at times he needed firm handling. He saw things very clearly and brooked no bullshit. “I’ve seen you some nights before you go on, you’re chatting and mucking about – you need to concentrate on the job in hand.” He was right, and after that little pep talk I took his advice and never looked back. “It’s concentration,” he said with a shrug. “Some nights I storm it, other times I die on my arse!” I opined to the Natty Rebel. I’d been struggling with a very patchy run of gigs. We were sat in the kitchen one night after our gigs and I asked his advice. Although it broke my heart, I gave it to him to wear on stage and it became his look for a while. Sean saw it and tried it on and it looked like I’d hoped it would look on me: dead smart but also just kind of odd, like he’d just got out of prison having been banged up in 1974. I had an old 70s suit that I’d picked up in a charity shop – navy blue, pin striped, massive lapels and flared trousers but it fitted me like the loose cover on a secondhand sofa. On his poster that year he billed himself as “The Natty Rebel Returns”. ![]() We ended up sharing a flat together in Edinburgh for the festival. He didn’t have to try too hard he wasn’t one of those comics who was full of nervous energy and felt the need to be permanently “on”. Physically tough, comfortable in himself and cool like Steve McQueen was cool, he was great company – very bright and naturally witty. He was really original and exciting and I wanted to be his friend. Sean was maybe a year ahead of me on the London comedy club scene and already had a reputation among comics as one to watch.
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![]() The billionaire financed a junket for members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association two months before the awards at the Riviera. Riklis is largely credited with creating a golden path for Zadora to win her Golden Globes award for New Star of the Year for her 1982 role in “Butterfly,” which he had co-produced. ![]() The show became the inspiration for the Netflix scripted series, “GLOW.” He also bankrolled “G.L.O.W.: Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling,” a syndicated TV show starring female pro wrestlers. ![]() He brought the groundbreaking production shows “Splash,” “Crazy Girls” and “Evening at La Cage” to the Strip. Riklis turned the Riv into one of the most successful - and for a time, the largest - hotels on the Strip. The man known as “Rik” by his closest friends was famous as Zadora’s first husband (the two were married from 1977-‘93) and as the owner of the Riv in during its heyday in the 1980s through the early ’90s. The billionaire who was a fixture on the Strip while owner of the Riviera died Friday at a Tel Aviv hospital. “He’d say, ‘Do you know who I am? And they would go, ‘Noooo!’ And he’d say, ‘Do you know who Pia Zadora is? I’m Mr. “He would go lecture at Yale or Duke, speaking as a successful businessman - he was a brilliant businessman, who knew how to make money - and he had a great sense of humor,” Zadora said while seated in a darkened booth Friday night after a performance of her “Pia’s Place” show at Piero’s Italian Restaurant. Somehow, the marriage of starlet Pia Zadora and billionaire businessman Meshulam Riklis was favorable to both parties. Meshulam Riklis, Pia Zadora and their baby Kady are seen at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York in 1984. ![]() 4A on Strada Dimitrie Racoviță, Bucharest, Romania, 2017, by Corina Dîndărean She continued to paint, she told The New York Times in 2009, because “only my love of the straight line keeps me going.Top: Untitled, by Donald Judd, concrete sculpture, 1991, Israel MuseumĬentre: the Zollverein School of Management and Design Essen, Germany, 2005–2006, by SANAAīottom: House no. In 20, she was the subject of an exhibit at the Whitney, Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight.īy the end of her life, Herrera, suffering from severe arthritis, relied on a wheelchair to move about her studio. Why would anyone go to a hospital to take care of the lepers if they do not have the vocation of being nuns? It’s the same.”Īfter she made her first sale at age 89, Herrera's work attracted ever greater notice – and fetched ever greater prices, into the tens of thousands of dollars per piece. “People keep saying, ‘How do you work all those years without any reward, no money, few exhibitions’ Because it was a vocation. “I do it because I have to do it,” she told The Telegraph. Etel Adnan: Celebrated author who found fame as an artist later in life.Herrera recalled her indignation when, by her account, a gallerist in New York told her, “Carmen, you can paint circles around the men artists that I have, but I’m not going to give you a show because you’re a woman.” Herrera did find, however, that obscurity had its benefits she was free to pursue her art with no need to satisfy anyone but herself. “How can I explain it? It’s the beginning of all structures, really.”Īsked where a line ends, she replied, “It doesn't.” “There is nothing I love more than to make a straight line,” Herrera told The Sunday Telegraph in 2010. Herrera, Meyer said, was “working in a much cooler, cleaner way,” without “manifest brushwork.” fell somewhat between the cracks.” Herrera was working in what would become known as the minimalist style in the 1950s, when the abstract expressionism of artists such as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline was ascendant. Herrera faced obstacles as a woman painting during a time when, Meyer said, “what we call the art world tended to be sexist and tended to diminish women's accomplishments.”īut also, he noted, “the style of her work. ![]() In 1954, she and her husband returned to New York, where he worked as a high school English teacher while she devoted herself to her artwork, generating little if any notice. I was angry that I didn't know about this before.” “I thought, ‘This is what I want to do.’ I went to the studio, and I worked and worked and worked and worked. “That was an eye-opener,” she told The Observer in 2010. The couple lived for a period in Paris, where Herrera, who had previously painted in a more traditional, representational style, began to explore abstract art in earnest after discovering the Salon des Realites Nouvelles, which cultivated abstract artists. She met a visiting American, Jesse Loewenthal, and returned with him to the United States. Herrera began painting as a child, went to finishing school in Paris and returned to Cuba to study architecture at the University of Havana. Her mother was a reporter for the publication and a committed feminist. Her father, who died when she was three, was the editor of the Havana newspaper El Mundo. Herrera was born in Havana in 1915 – on 30 May, according to her Cuban passport, or on 31 May, according to her US one – one of seven children in a progressive and affluent family. Herrera, Meyer said, “is an example of an artist persisting in her work, unaffected by lack of recognition, a lack of sales, pursuing her vision with great rigour and self-confidence and happily receiving recognition late in life.” Her works are also housed at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington and the Tate Modern in London. Last month, the National Gallery acquired two works by Herrera – an untitled painting in green and white, executed in 2013, and an untitled aluminium relief conceived in 1966 and completed in 2016. With her “hard-edged style of pared-down geometric shapes” and “simplified palettes”, she established herself as a leading abstract artist of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, James Meyer, the curator of modern art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, said.
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I fell in love with her the following year, but I carried that love for the next seven years secretly as she had been otherwise engaged in one way or another throughout that time.īut when the stars finally aligned in my favor, I seized my chance, and on December 23, 1986, I told Ivy that I loved her, and one year, one month, and one day later, we were married. I met Ivy during my first weeks of college in 1978. I’ve written about Ivy’s death only sparsely so far, because such a bottomless loss can’t be summed up in words, but I’ll do my best to at least relay the essentials here. On April 28 of this year, Ivy died in a car accident on her way to bring our youngest, Winter, home from the University of Michigan where she had just gotten her masters degree. The globe design was based on a page from my 1993 book Understanding Comics so it was kinda nice to finally get my hands on one.īut we also passed a kind of milestone no one can ever be prepared for… I’m now officially OLD, having received the Eisner Awards’ Hall of Fame award last year. We passed some milestones in the last couple of years. We’ll see! Not counting any eggs before they’re hatched, but you never know… New for this month: We’re happy to announce a gorgeous new edition of my 2015 graphic novel The Sculptor (speaking of five hundred page books that took years).Īs of this writing, there’s still a chance that it will be a movie, by the way. Swing by the presentations page for more info. Nevertheless, I’ve continued to do my lectures and workshops, albeit virtually in some cases. I still haven’t gotten Covid as of this writing-fingers crossed!-but the pandemic at large did keep us home for big stretches of 2020-2022. 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