She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.

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In her mass-produced ubiquity, Kusama became one of her own dots, spreading her image into every corner of our culture.

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He was a blast to watch, whether playing a mad scientist in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” a butler in “Clue” or a singing King Arthur in “Spamalot.”