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When Life Dangerously Mimics Art: Could Dalí’s Works Connect to Murders?

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By MICHELLE H. LePOIDEVIN Stop In the Name Of Dueling Egos:

‘The Supremes’ Battle Drags On

Ain’t no mountain high enough to keep Diana Ross and Mary Wilson apart these days. I’m talking, of course, about the storm that has brewed between Diva Ross and original Supremes member Wilson who has been excluded from the “Return to Love” tour which was supposed to be one big happy reunion. Instead, it’s been one big disastrous dueling of egos, a “she said,” “I said” battle of accusations between two women who used to be the

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Diana Ross Nathaniel

Hawthorne (18041864)

ARTIST OF THE WEEK

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s foot, which was seriously injured during a ball game, caused the nineyearold SalemMass.born author to be limited to more sedate activities for children his age – reading and writing.

Although Hawthorne preferred to stay at home with his mother, he attended Bowdoin College and returned to Salem after graduation to become influenced and immersed by the events circling his town.

Hawthorne’s lineage included a judge at the Salem witch trials in 1692 – Judge Hathorne. Because the author was frustrated by his descendant’s tie to the controversial trials, he added a “w” to his last name to disassociate himself from the judge.

Changing his name, however, did not sever his emotional ties to Salem’s past, as Hawthorne’s works such as “The Scarlet Letter” and “Young Goodman Brown” had distinct overtones of the town’s culture and haunting tales.

Traveling all over the world, Hawthorne’s literary career grew to enormous proportions, finding it’s final roots in England, where he settled with his wife, Sophia Amelia Peabody and their three children, Una, Julian and Rose.

“Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will set down quietly, may alight upon you,” Hawthorne once said.

In May of 1864, Hawthorne was discovered by his friend General Franklin Pierce who found the author died in his sleep.

Come Get Groovy With The Fins At Fanwoodstock

FANWOOD – The Fanwood Memorial Library, along with the Board of Trustees and the Friends of the Library, will present a free concert with “The Fins” on the library lawn on Sunday, May 21, at 3 p. m.

Participants are invited to bring a blanket, chairs and a picnic to enjoy the show.

The Fins are a rhythm and blues band with a solid core of bass from Angelo Mancuso, drums from Eric Addeo and guitar from Benny “HiFi” Suriano,” along with a tight fourpiece horn section.

Together for over a decade, “The Fins” combine the sounds of prerock ‘n roll jump blues, swing, jazz, funk and an urban Chicago blues sound. They have performed with several Blues legends, and have played at the Presidential Inauguration festivities in 1993 and at the 1998 Chicago Blues Festival.

The band released a debut album, “Bluesprint” in 1997. Refreshments will be available at the concert. For more information, please call the library at (908) 3226400 or visit www. Imxac. org/ fanwood.

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“Dream” (1931) by Salvador Dalí

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closest of friends. Wilson, who is harboring heartbreak since Ross was made the focal point of the Supremes after her promotion from Barry Gordy, was offered approximately $3 million to take the stage with Ross who was offered upwards of $20 million. So, the question arises, “Is money the root of all evil?”

“It’s not even about the money,” Wilson told ABC’s 20/ 20 Downtown recently. “It’s about how degrading (it is).” Should a paycheck difference of almost $17 million stand between making Supremes fans happy? Can’t Wilson just swallow her pride and be the bigger person? After all, Ross has reportedly offered some of her own money to sweeten the pot for Wilson, claiming that she did all she could to ease the tensions between her and Wilson.

My question is, if they were all equal partners when the Supremes first started out in 1958, rising out of the projects in Detroit, why does Wilson have to stand in Ross’s shadow, monetarily and successfully? Didn’t anyone notice how stomachchurning it was when Ross took the front microphone and

Perpignan Railway Station in France

On The Beat

Legends Lou Reed and Neil Young Prove Age Is Irrelevant With Releases

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Pictured, top, Neil Young’s “Silver & Gold” and Pink Floyd’s “Is There Anybody Out There?” By ANDY GOLDENBERG

Specially Written for The Westfield Leader and The Times

Two Rock veterans return to the music scene in grand style. Neil Young and Lou Reed coast into the Year 2000 with brilliant albums.

Young’s “Silver & Gold” from Reprise Records is a mellow, acoustic offering boasting gorgeous melodies as well as stellar guitar playing from Young. While many in the media have compared this work to his previous acoustic record, “Harvest Moon,” the melodies are more complex on “Silver & Gold” as is the lyrical content.

Young faces the challenge of growing older with an appreciation for life that one could not foresee at age 25 or 30.

Lou Reed also faces the issues of aging, if not as gracefully as Young, on his first studio album for Reprise Records, “Ecstasy.” Relationships, usually Reed’s most com mon subject matter next to New

York City, are explored in all their attractive and unpleasant states. Reed as usual, pulls no punches on the subject of carnal matters as well. Longtime Reed fans will be

delighted with this new release.

Columbia Records brings us two stellar releases, one archival and one new. Pink Floyd’s double CD “Is There Anybody Out There?” edits together the best moments from the band’s

The Wall tour from 1980 and 1981 from both a sonic and musical perspective. It also includes two that was listed on but not included on the original album, “What Shall We Do

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FRANCE – “The only difference between myself and a madman is that I am not mad.” Salvador Dalí’s artwork has often been synonymous with strange and erratic notions – women disfigured and distorted with body parts strewn about the canvas and severed into puzzlelike pieces.

Though Dalí died in 1989, a recent report on ABC’s 20/ 20 Downtown

has pointed out that investigators in Perpignan, France are curious as to whether a string of murders which have occurred since 1997 and the way they were carried out by the killer, could be connected to the imagery in Dalí’s Surrealist paintings.

Truly gory are the specific details of how three women, Moktaria Chaib, MarieHelene Gonzalez and Tatiana Andujar, have been discovered near the Perpignan Railway Station. Greatly admired and depicted in his piece “The Railway Station at Perpignan” and in his autobiography “Diary

of a Genius,” the station was the center of Dalí’s world and muse.

Some of Dalí’s artwork has portrayed women with drawers or boxes protruding from their bodies. The body of MarieHelene, discovered near the Perpignan station in 1998, was found with a missing head, hands and certain organs placed in a box.

The first murder victim found in 1997, Moktaria was also discovered near the station with her head in the ground and portions of her body cut away with the same meticulous nature used by Dalí in his paintings such as “Young Virgin Autosodomized by Her Own Chastity.”

In this work, though her feet are still planted on the ground, the female subject of “Young Virgin” has her legs and torso separated from the rest of her body and her head is facing the ground.