WILD AT ART: Nicolas Cage is known...

By John Needham, Helene Elliott and Zan Dubin

Feb. 2, 1992 12 AM PT

WILD AT ART: Nicolas Cage is known for playing quirky characters in movies such as “Wild at Heart” and “Moonstruck.” So it figures the exhibit opening Friday at the Laguna Art Museum, partly underwritten by Cage, features artists whose work “tweaks the myths of the Golden State,” according to museum officials. . . . Cage himself collects such works by “young, exciting, edgy” artists, says museum trustee Greg Escalante, who persuaded Cage to help finance the show.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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