Do you miss John Lennon? We do. At 3D today, “Was psychologically manipulative” was the clue, and the answer was PLAYED MIND GAMES. Here’s John.
The clue and answer at 24D: “Artist Cindy known for her photographic self-portraits:” SHERMAN, don’t really do her justice. She’s a Jersey girl (Glen Ridge) and studied at SUNY Buffalo. She’s known for photos of herself in various outrageous guises. Here she is for real, first, and then some of her work.
Look, who am I to say anything? — it’s a living. In 2010, Sherman’s nearly six foot tall color print Untitled#153, featuring the artist as a mud-caked corpse, sold for $2.7 million. In 2011, a print of Untitled#96 fetched $3.89 million, making it the most expensive photograph at that time. Imagine if they were titled! She also picks up a few bucks working bar mitzvahs.
In 2000, she bought songwriter Marvin Hamlisch’s 4,200-square-foot house on 0.4 acre in Sag Harbor for $1.5 million. She sold her SOHO coop to Hank Azaria, who voices Moe the bartender on The Simpsons as well as Apu Nahasapeemapetilon who runs the Kwik-E-Mart, and Police Chief Wiggum who is the police chief. And get this — from ’07 to ’11 she was shacking up with David Byrne. Yeah, that one.
Julia Child was born 112 years ago, yesterday, in Pasadena CA. She grew to be over 6 feet tall and wanted to be a basketball player when she went to college. She became obsessed with Chinese cuisine when she was over there but only began cooking when she was 32. “Up until then, I only ate,” she said.
“Where lines may be drawn in the sand” was the clue at 30A, and I had no idea what the hell was going on because I am ignorant when it comes to ZEN GARDENs, the answer. It’s a miniature landscape composed of carefully arranged rocks, pruned trees and bushes, moss, maybe some water feature, and it uses gravel or sand as a base that is raked to give the impression of ripples in water. These ripples are the “lines drawn in the sand” from the clue.
Mark Allcroft of the Dull Men’s Club (UK) posted: “I think I have squirrels in the loft.”
Susan Carlyle asked: Is that a euphemism?
Liz Goddard: People have been telling me that for years.
Nick Renouf: Said the actress to the bishop. [What?]
John Worledge: You will be needing some antibiotics for that.
This may be Mark, below. Love the outfits.
We’ve gotten a wonderful report from Vermont Lizzie who’s out on Martha’s Vineyard visiting daughter-extraordinaire Bridgette, boyfriend Carter, and Carter’s gorgeous-with-the-blonde-curls 7-year-old son Isla. I’m not going to share the photo she sent, lest some pervert surfing the web fasten on it and stalk him out. He’s that cute — I’m thinking of grabbing him.
Liz reports she took everyone out for ice cream and it cost $38 for the four of them. Ouch! In hindsight, she’d have nixed the sprinkles.
Take a good look at that cone, folks. It may be the last one like that you see for a long time. I was shocked to learn that Dairy Queen no longer carries chocolate sprinkles. Rainbow sprinkles, yes; chocolate, no. It turns out rainbow sprinkles have become much more popular than their dark-hued cousins and the latter may become an endangered species. Yikes.
Choking up. Can’t go on.
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