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I’ll go with the recogniz able Woods; despite his portrayal of a 90-year-old racist, he has certainly paid his dues... oh, and he did a good job, tOO. Bret: Don’t let Gerry fool you, that’s not how he sprained his tongue. Re gardless, something about the name “Cuba Gooding” seems a bit too con trived, even for Hollywood, not to mention he is responsible for this year’s most annoying and cliched catch phrase “Show me the money.” Because of my personal affinity for tyrannical father figures, my pick goes to Armin Mueller-Stahl for his rivet ing performance as an obsessed and abusive parent in “Shine.” BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Gerry: This category has always sucked for me. Year after year, I never can get it right, so I’ll just blindly guess Juliette Binoche because it’ll keep a major streak running for “The English Patient.” Bacall and her long time devotion to cinema also give her a good chance. Bret: I agree; you have always sucked in this category. Personally, I never liked the relationship between Bacall and Bogie; “The Mirror Has Two Faces” could easily be the title for a movie about their marriage. Barbara Hershey’s spirited yet dubious char acter in “The Portrait of a Lady” was executed with brilliance and subtlety, earning my choice for this classy and long overdue actress. American Heart Association™^^ Fighting Heart Disease \ and Stroke Abstract expressionist dies after prolific career EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) — Willem de Kooning, whose swirls and slashes of color helped define abstract expressionism and made him one of the 20th century’s greatest painters, died in his studio Wednesday. He was 92. De Kooning’s abstract expression ist works included traces of the ear lier surrealist movement and prefig ured pop art. Along with Jackson Pol lock, he led the group of artists who helped New York replace Paris as the center of the art world in the years af ter World War II. “I don’t paint to live, I live to paint,” he said in his 80s. “It’s a nice thing to look forward to.” De Kooning painted daily until the late 1980s, even after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. In 1989, after a bitter court fight, he was de clared mentally incompetent and con trol of his estate was given to his at torney and his daughter, Usa, who is his only survivor. Among his meticulously composed canvases was his 1944 “Pink Lady,” which brought $3.63 million at an auction in 1987. Two years later his 1955 masterpiece “Interchange” sold for a stunning $20.6 million. Vintage works consistently sold for more than $1 million. Bom in Rotterdam, Netherlands, he was the son of a wine and beer dis tributor and a barmaid. They divorced when he was 5 and his father got cus tody, but his mother took him away by force — a fact that critics made much of in later years. He decided to emigrate to the United States and, stowing away cm a ship, ended up in Hoboken, NJ., in 1926. He learned English while work ing as a house painter and commer cial artist. His first one-man show came in 1948 at age 44. When his canvas “Ex cavation” won the major prize at the Art Institute of Chicago’s 1951 exhi bition, it was viewed as a vindication for abstract expressionism, the move ment that stresses the depiction of emotion through shapes and colors. De Kooning was married in 1943 to fellow painter Elaine Fried. They separated later and when he was 52 he had daughter with Joan Ward. But he never divorced Elaine and in 1978 she returned. She helped him stop his heavy drinking and handled his affairs until her death in 1989. De Kooning was known for hav-' ing difficulty declaring his paintings j complete, but his output increased in the 1980s, when he produced more than 300 works. In a 1989 interview, Rose Slivka, an art critic and old friend of de Kooning’s, commented on his vitality. “It’s very exciting to watch him paint,” she said. “As always, he brings his whole body into it.... It seems to flow out of his fingers, his way of touching the canvas as if he were fol lowing the color lines, as if he’s feel ing into a very deep part of his life.” | A funeral was scheduled for Sat- i urday afternoon at St. Luke’s Episco pal Church in East Hampton. A pub lic memorial service will be held later. Unbelievable Low Prices Diamonds, Engagement Rings, Gold Chains and Bracelets. 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