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- PEOPLE, Page 94Mural, Mural on the WallBy Emily Mitchell/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- You can't get ROY LICHTENSTEIN to change his dots. Hollywood
- superagent MICHAEL OVITZ knew that when he commissioned the Pop
- artist to create a mural for his new office building. For the past
- three weeks, Lichtenstein, 65, has been balancing on a scaffolding
- in the lobby atrium -- "a wonderful space" -- to finish his 28-ft.
- by 17-ft. work, which he calls Bauhaus Stairway: The Large Version.
- The outsize painting is the first thing a visitor to the edifice,
- er, spots. "It's very hard to miss," admits Lichtenstein. "I hope
- it's sort of cheery. It's far from depressing, unless you think my
- art is depressing."