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writer Jennifer Allen, whom he
married in 1984. (He also has a
son with Allen and a daughter
with his first also-Jewish wife.)
Halley and Jules, who is now 77,
are very close. Yes, nepotism had
a role in her casting as Joan of
Arc, but Halley made an impres-
sive film debut last year in the
Oscar-nominated The Squid and
the Whale, as the girlfriend of
Walt, the older son in Squid.
Halley just finished filming a
role in Squid and the Whale direc-
tor Noah Baumbach's still-untitled.
next film, which will open in 2007.
Dolling It Up, Again
One of the seminal bands of the
punk rock sound, the New York
Dolls formed in 1972, never sold
that many albums and broke up
in 1975. But the band influenced a
whole generation of rockers.
The two surviving members of
the band, David Johansen and
Sylvain Sylvain, have put togeth-
er a new band and just released
a new CD, Sleep Baby Doll, that
has received much better than the
just-polite reviews most reunion
CDs garner. They also have been
playing a limited number of live
dates this summer.
Guitarist Sylvain was born
Sylvain "Sil"
Mizrahi in Egypt
in 1949. The anti-
Jewish sentiment
following the
1956 Egypt-Israel
war forced his
Sylvain Sylvain family to leave
the country for
America when Mizrahi was a child.
He grew up in Brooklyn, where
most people called him "Steve."
He took Sylvain Sylvain as his
stage name.
Some sources say his cousin is
fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi.
Sylvain says he doesn't know
whether they are related, but
they could be distant cousins.
"There's not that many Mizrahis,"
he notes. 1
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who worked as an art restorer before
"Originally, I wanted to do some-
being able to support herself fully
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with sculpture projects. "I think that
natural and would not be subject to
art is a convergence of a lot of inter-
an interpretation of an art nude. I
ests, including philosophy."
mostly do children because I think
The artist, who ha5 shown her
they're so strong psychologically.
work at the National Jewish Museum
When I show a naked child, people
in Washington, D.C., and has par-
have strong reactions. They relate to
ticipated as a panelist for a program
• it as something inside themselves,
at Brandeis University, will be rep-
and they also react to it as something
resented in an exhibit at the Jewish
Museum Vienna, returning to the city they might have to protect."
Fox, who is spending the next
where her maternal grandfather was
month
at an artists' colony in New .
a society painter.
Hampshire,
says she ultimately is
Fox's sculpture, placed in institu-
capturing
personality
and all things
tional collections from the California
psychological.
Center for the Arts in Escondido to
"I'm not particularly religious:' she
the Contemporary Art Museum in
says.
"My symbolism of life goes into
Honolulu, has been seen in national
art
as
opposed to the rituals of every-
and international exhibits. Inspired
day life." I
by contemporary events and atti-
tudes, she often relates those to
mythological stories. David and
"An Assessment of
Delilah are among the Jewish figures
Contemporary Figuration"
she has portrayed.
continues through Aug. 26 at
Early works were of babies.
the
David Klein Gallery,163
"I wanted to sculpt babies because
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