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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 21 January 2020
Critics free to criticize, say

‘Morning Show’ makers, stars

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) —
When critics and subjects
of their criticism meet there
can be tense moments —
especially when a new
streaming service’s high-
profile project, “The Morn-
ing Show,” is at issue.
That was the case when
A journalist takes a closer look at the previously contested paint-
ing by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh, a 1889 self-portrait, of Mimi Leder, executive pro-
which the authenticity was confirmed during a press confer- ducer of the Apple TV Plus
ence in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, Jan. 20, 2020. series, was queried about
Associated Press her comment last Novem-
ber that “Apple haters”
Experts say Vincent van were responsible for some Jennifer Aniston, left, and Reese Witherspoon speak at "The
Morning Show," panel during the Apple+ TCA 2020 Winter Press
of the show’s negative re-
Gogh self-portrait is views. Tour at the Langham Huntington, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020, in Pasa-
dena, Calif.
“Looking out at this sea of
Associated Press
genuine MacBooks, do you still think
we’re a bunch of Apple clude “The Leftovers” and tial remarks about review-
haters who want to see ” “ER.” ers came during a media
AMSTERDAM (AP) — After What sets the work apart Apple fail?” a member of “I think we were a new conference in Los Angeles,
years of doubts about its is Van Gogh's use of a pal- the Television Critics Asso- show, I think people didn’t was asked by another critic
authenticity, experts in Am- ette knife. ciation said to Leder during know what to expect,” Led- about them, Witherspoon
sterdam have confirmed "So he has painted it and a Q&A promotional panel er said. “There were a lot of spoke up. She and Aniston
that a Vincent van Gogh during the process he sud- Sunday that included stars expectations on the show, also are executive produc-
self-portrait was indeed denly decides that it has to Jennifer Aniston, Reese and I’m really glad and ers on the series, which fol-
painted by the Dutch mas- become flat," Van Tilborgh Witherspoon and Billy Crud- happy that people have lows the upheaval at a net-
ter as he recovered in a said. "We tend to think that up. responded to the show so work morning show after an
French asylum from a men- it has to do with the fact “No, I don’t,” replied Leder, powerfully, and kind of with anchor, played by Steve
tal breakdown. that it's made during a pe- a veteran, Emmy-winning great vigor.” Carell, is fired for alleged
Van Gogh Museum re- riod of psychosis." director whose credits in- When Leder, whose ini- sexual misconduct.q
searcher Louis van Tilborgh Van Tilborgh said Van
dispelled the doubts Mon- Gogh used painting as
day, saying the oil-on- both a way of portraying Jazz composer and saxophone
canvas painting of the his mental breakdown and
anguished-looking painter of helping him to recover.
was completed in the late "He wanted to say in this player Jimmy Heath dies at 93
summer of 1889 while Van picture that he was an ill
Gogh was at the Saint- person and so it's a kind of NEW YORK (AP) — Jimmy style. Heath overcame inches) and played in a
Remy asylum in southern therapeutic work we tend Heath, a Grammy- his battles with heroin jazz concert at the White
France. to think," he said. "He was nominated jazz saxophonist addiction, which landed House, when President Bill
Questions about the paint- a Protestant and as a Prot- and composer who him in prison in the mid- Clinton himself borrowed
ing rose in the 1970s. The estant you have to accept performed with such greats 1950s, and had a long his saxophone for one
use of a palette knife to the facts of life — if you suf- as Miles Davis and John and productive career. He number.
flatten brush strokes on fer, you have to face the Coltrane before forming wrote most of the material In 2003, he was named
Van Gogh's face and what suffering." the popular family group for the Chet Baker-Art a Jazz Master by the
were then considered to Norway's most famous ar- the Heath Brothers in Pepper album "Playboys," National Endowment for
be unusual colors in the tistic son, painter Edvard middle age, has died. He recorded with everyone the Arts, which noted that
painting led to specula- Munch, whose iconic work, was 93. from Davis and Coltrane "By combining his versatile
tion about the authentic- "The Scream," also is a vivid Heath's grandson Fa to Milt Jackson and Gil style of performing and
ity of the work, which was expression of mental an- Mtume told The New York Evans, worked on charts for his outstanding writing
bought as a genuine Van guish, was fascinated by Times that he died Sunday Ray Charles, and released and arranging abilities, he
Gogh in 1910 by Norway's the Van Gogh painting. at his home in Loganville, several of his own albums. has set a high standard
National Museum. "He thought it was one of Georgia. The cause of In the 1970s, he helped of accomplishment in the
In an attempt to put those the best of the collection death was not immediately found the Heath Brothers, jazz field." Survivors include
doubts to rest, the museum of the national gallery but given. which also featured Tootie Heath; his second
asked the Van Gogh Muse- he also found it scary, be- Heath, a native of brothers Percy Heath on wife, Mona; and a child
um to analyze the painting cause of the gaze from the Philadelphia, had been bass and Albert "Tootie" from each of his marriages.
in 2014. self-portrait staring back at playing jazz since the Heath on drums. Their His son from his first marriage,
"It feels really reassuring to him," Guleng said. 1940s, in the early days of albums included "Marchin' James Mtume, became a
know that its genuine," said The painting will remain on bebop. He was mentored On" and the Grammy- Grammy-winning musician
Mai Britt Guleng of the Nor- display at the Van Gogh by Dizzy Gillespie, idolized nominated "Live at the and songwriter who helped
wegian museum. Museum in Amsterdam Charlie Parker, whose Public Theater." In 1993, write the Stephanie Mills
Van Tilborgh said the use of before returning to Oslo in nickname was "Bird," and he received a Grammy hit "Never Knew Love Like
an unprimed canvas and a 2021, when the National would become known as nomination for his own This Before." Another son,
muddy green color were, in Museum, currently closed "Little Bird" for how well he "Little Man, Big Band" album Jeffrey, died in 2010. Percy
fact, typical of Van Gogh's for renovation, reopens in emulated Parker's fluid (Heath stood just 5 feet, 3 Heath died in 2005.q
time in Saint-Remy in 1889. a new building.q