Article: TO `ART' STAR, A PICTURE'S WORTH SOME WORDS

Michael Gross (Family Ties) stars as the proud owner of a giant, all-white painting in the Tony-winning comedy Art at the Royal George Theatre. But real life fails to imitate you-know-what.

When it comes to modern art, "I don't understand this stuff at all," admits Gross, 51.

"My wife and I have some very close friends in Santa Fe who are major collectors of minimalist art and this is the stuff they have on their walls.

I just walk around their house and I look at it, and I don't exactly get it.

I make these nice clucking noises and approving sounds.

Then I walk out and say to my wife, `I don't get it!' "

That said, the low-key Gross finds French writer Yasmina Reza's Anglicized comedy ...

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