“He grabs a church and paints with the church,” wrote a poet of the cubist era, Blaise Cendrars. “He grabs a cow and paints with the cow . . . He paints with an oxtail/ With all the dirty passion of a little Jewish town/ With all the exacerbated sexuality of provincial Russia.” Soutine? Strangely enough, no: Marc Chagall. Cendrars’ rhapsody reminds one how different the late decades of that hugely productive painter were from his early ones.

The famous celebrity baby is currently in France with her superstar parents, Beyonce and Jay Z and have been seen severally rocking different outfits like her yummy mummy. The 2-year-old was spotted last week leaving a house near Elysee Paris with Bey and Jay and she looked beautiful in simple braids. Back in August, Chris Brown's girlfriend, Karrueche Tran made fun of the kid's hair while making a guest appearance on BET's 106 n Park TV show.

THE OCTOBER COUNTRY (306 pp.)—Ray Bradbury—Ballantine Books ($3.50; paperback, $.35). Among readers who fancy vampires, succubi, werewolves and other monsters, a young (35) Californian named Ray Bradbury is regarded as the arrived monster-monger, fit replacement for August Derleth, eldritch statesman of the well-informed witchlover. Author Bradbury may owe even more to John Collier, another veteran djinn-and-bitters addict. Like Mary Wollstonecraft (Frankenstein) Shelley and Bram (Dracula) Stoker, these writers appeal to the middle or relatively uncorrugated brow, rather than the highbrow, who finds more than enough to bite his nails over in the Age of Anxiety without faking up a little more.

Campbell’s Soup has released a heartwarming ad to promote its special-edition Star Wars cans that celebrate all kinds of families. In the viral spot, two dads take turns doing their best impressions of Darth Vader, recounting his famous line, “Luke, I am your father” — heavy breathing and all — as they spoon-feed their toddler son. The one parent whose impersonation of the villain is clearly inferior resorts to making his best Chewbacca noises instead.

Nigerian gospel singer Mercy Chinwo and her hubby Blessed have held their white wedding. The much-talked-about wedding took place in the oil-rich city of Port Harcourt in Rivers State. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7scHLrJxnppdksq%2FAxKurmqGeorKvwI6cnKWdkqe2tbXErGacoJWYuG671K1kqaCfqby0ecCnm2aumZmysL%2BMn6mopV2isrOv2GaaoaGerLy0edaem52hnpx6pLHRnqSopqlkuLHCxbCwbw%3D%3D