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DIED. ARTIE SHAW, 94, suave, inventive clarinetist and bandleader of the '30s and '40s whose hit recording of Cole Porter's Begin the Beguine and subsequent work helped define the Big Band era; in Newbury Park, Calif. Though not as popular as his rival, Big Band giant Benny Goodman, Shaw was more adventurous, rejecting formulas to experiment with instrumentation and arrangements. Between frequent retirements, he recorded with his eponymous Big Band, the Gramercy Five and other groups, producing such hits as Frenesi, Star Dust and Summit Ridge Drive. A sometimes irascible perfectionist who had eight wives (including Lana Turner...
...Proportion of Japanese women in their 20s and 30s who have been groped on Tokyo's transit system, according to a government poll...
Blame the metrosexual if you must, but men in their 20s and 30s are finally catching on to what women have appreciated for centuries: luxurious grooming products. Companies like the 200-year-old British Truefitt & Hill and the relatively new Sharps are making inroads into the $5 billion U.S. market for men's grooming products with deluxe barbershops, right, and trendy products, left. Truefitt & Hill, once a favorite of Winston Churchill's and now of Matthew Broderick's, offers a half-hour-long shave with a straight razor, nine hot towels and a sideburn trim at its new Las Vegas...
...reports came over police radio of an incident on Everett Street, the northern boundary of Harvard Law School. The suspect, who was described as a blond, medium-built white male in his 30s, fled towards Mass...
...Heart Huckabees, playing his typical dispassion and narcissism in a film targeted primarily at a more intelligent crowd. Could fans of the existential Jude win out? Unfortunately, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a threat to the other three. Jude branches out, playing a ’30s-clad narcissist who is also an action hero. The new territory Jude treads on in this film (placing his hotness against an all-digital background with scary robots and a dumber Gwyneth Paltrow than we’ve ever seen before) could make Sky Captain the winner...