The following is from NYTimes.com, April 15, 2001:
An Artist's Long Eclipse Yields to Light
By MARTIN FILLER
WHEN the Los Angeles-born artist Alexis Smith was 17 and still called
Patti Anne Smith, she rechristened herself after a 1940's Hollywood
star in a burst of pop adulation. Taking on the name of an actress was
the younger Ms. Smith's first step in forging an independent identity,
one that has remained focused despite her ups and downs in the last
decade.
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