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Emile Norman: By His Own Design (4 stars out of 5) - Orlando Sentinal - april 04, 2007
Emile Norman is a big gay man with a Jonathan Winters voice, a talented, unassuming free spirit so at home around power tools you'd think he was Bob Vila.
Emile Norman: By His Own Design, is a California public TV documentary that takes us into the world of this brilliant sculptor and designer, his art, his career, his love life and his stunning yet simple and unobtrusively natural Big Sur home.
He was a farm boy from the San Gabriel Valley who went to New York, designed department store windows and became famous. He was an artist from age 11, when he chiseled a still-amazing stone face out of a rock he found on the ranch. He was a gay man when it was dangerous to be known as that.
And now, from his intricate wood workings to his vast mosaic at San Francisco's Masonic Auditorium, Norman is every bit the complete artist, always creating, acquiring skills, mastering them and using them to create brilliant art in a variety of media.
Will Parrinello's film (Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker of LA Law produced it) is an artistic history of post World War II America, and an eye-opener for anybody who's never heard of this gifted creative mind.
Screening at: 9 p.m. March 25 at Enzian and 2 p.m. March 30 at Regal.
Florida Film Festival: March 23 - April 1, 2007
Roger Moore, Sentinel Movie Critic - March 20, 2007
