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Yahoo
23-05-2025
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- Yahoo
Famous birthdays for May 22: Bernie Taupin, Johnny Gill
May 22 (UPI) -- Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include: -- Musician Richard Wagner in 1813 -- Artist Mary Cassatt in 1844 -- Writer Arthur Conan Doyle in 1859 -- Baseball Hall of Fame member Al Simmons in 1902 -- Actor Laurence Olivier in 1907 -- Musician Sun Ra in 1914 -- Critic Judith Crist în 1922 -- Musician Charles Aznavour in 1924 -- Entrepreneur T. Boone Pickens Jr. in 1928 -- Activist/politician Harvey Milk in 1930 -- Musician Peter Nero in 1934 -- Actor Richard Benjamin in 1938 (age 86) -- Actor Paul Winfield in 1939 -- Journalist Bernard Shaw in 1940 -- Theodore Kaczynski, the so-called "Unabomber," in 1942 -- Northern Irish political activist/Nobel Peace Prize laureate Betty Williams in 1943 -- Musician Bernie Taupin in 1950 (age 75) -- Musician Morrissey (Smiths) in 1959 (age 66) -- Actor Ann Cusack in 1961 (age 63) -- Musician Jesse Valenzuela (Gin Blossoms) in 1962 (age 63) -- Musician Johnny Gill (New Edition/LSG) in 1966 (age 59) -- Actor Brooke Smith in 1967 (age 58) -- Actor Michael Kelly in 1969 (age 56) -- Model/actor Naomi Campbell in 1970 (age 55) -- Actor Sean Gunn in 1974 (age 51) -- Actor Ginnifer Goodwin in 1978 (age 47) -- Actor Maggie Q in 1979 (age 46) -- Actor Nazanin Boniadi in 1980 (age 45) -- Olympic champion speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno in 1982 (age 43) -- Entrepreneur Dustin Moskovitz in 1984 (age 41) -- Tennis player Novak Djokovic in 1987 (age 38) -- Actor Camren Bicondova in 1999 (age 26) -- Actor Peyton Elizabeth Lee in 2004 (age 21)
Wall Street Journal
16-05-2025
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- Wall Street Journal
‘Wild Thing' Review: The Sorcery of Paul Gauguin
Sue Prideaux's gruesomely fascinating 'Wild Thing' begins with four teeth in a well. Local inhabitants of Hiva Oa, in French Polynesia, found them in 2000 while restoring the nearby hut in which Paul Gauguin lived. Scientific analysis proved the teeth were indeed the famed painter's. When Gauguin died in 1903, he had been on Hiva Oa for two years. All his life he had been in pursuit of wild things. Born in Paris in 1848, he had spent several childhood years with his maternal family in Lima, Peru. For the rest of his life, he would belligerently call himself 'a savage from Peru.' Gauguin always considered himself an outsider. Even while thriving as a young Parisian stockbroker, his amateur painting defied rules. In early works such as 'The Market Gardens of Vaugirard' (1879), he rejected the tight, smooth realism of Academic art and caught up with the variegated brushwork and unblended colors of his mentor, the Impressionist Camille Pissarro. Several of the core Impressionists incubated the generation after theirs, even though the post-Impressionists were moving rapidly toward distinct and remarkably individual styles. The last of the Impressionist exhibitions, held in 1886 and financed in large part by Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas and Berthe Morisot, launched not only the career of Gauguin but also Georges Seurat, with the latter's monumental 'A Sunday on La Grande Jatte' (1886). Degas would be one of Gauguin's most stalwart collectors for the rest of his life. Post-Impressionism quickly delivered more than its fair share of images that have stayed in our collective imagination. By 1889, Vincent van Gogh, who had attended the 1886 exhibition and tried to become Gauguin's friend, had painted 'The Starry Night.'
