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DELIA DEETZ AND POSTMODERN PERFECTION
We’ve yet to see Beetlejuice Beetlejuice but are looking forward to the return of the whole Deetz family, specifically matriarch city slicker Delia Deetz, played by Catharine O’Hara. She of the batshit urbane, country-hating clan, who had just triumphantly made the cover of Art in America at the end of the original 1988 movie. Seems she’s spent all these years rising in prominence as a multimedia gallery artist and influencer, and of course she did, what with those hilarious, hulking “collectible design” sculptures of hers that played a major role in the chaotic farmhouse demolition, postmodern overhaul that we fell in love with. Cheers to you, Delia Deetz, and to all of you big city girls with a flair for statement making, to mauve, to ghosts, ushering in the new, and to having things remade and redone just the way you like them.