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| | Mirror Stage Company-Seattle Gay News Review odf ABSTRACT EXPRESSION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13) |
 | | That he has been once wounded by an art critic, which forced him into a self-exile, only makes him that much more interesting to Lillian, who is determined at all costs to get her own way. |
 | | Of course, a huge price is paid by both the painter and his daughter, as Lillian's will is done, and the art world, driven by greed and a need for something new, devours the fragile ego of the painter and in time, destroys him. |
 | | I also liked the subplot of Mac and Jenny's friend, Charlie (Cecil Luellen), and how that friendship is damaged both by Lillian's ambition and Charlie's own nephew's unwitting self-destruction (which happens as an indirect result of her manipulations). |
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