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May 23, 1994: People
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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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<p>By Ginia Bellafante
</p>
<p>De Kooning Jr.
</p>
<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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