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...lost Details? In fairness, it was on the critical list before Golin. Under the editorship of James Truman--now editorial director of all Conde Nast magazines--Details enjoyed early-'90s acclaim as a stylish bible of the downtown club scene. But it floundered, changing editors like Polo boxer-briefs and redefining itself constantly, most recently as a pop-culture gazette with a dash of red-blooded...
...would also be a welcome change for Jarmusch, 47, whose oddness and integrity have won him international acclaim but whose films have never caused box-office stampedes in the U.S. (Dead Man, his 1995 Johnny Depp western, made about as much in France as it did here: $1 million.) He has scrambled for financing from French and Japanese sources and cast his all-American movies with actors from all over. It would be a shame if he were remembered only for casting Roberto Benigni in his first English-language features (Down by Law and Night on Earth) or for being...
...called in the book, was able to secure a prestigious Trinidad government scholarship in 1948, which he used to fund four years of study at Oxford University. Family Letters documents Naipaul's life spanning a period from just before his departure for England, to the critical acclaim following the 1957 publication of Naipaul's first book, The Mystic Masseur...
...Academy Awards, but others see them as a way for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which hands them out, to bestow upon itself a patina of credibility. New York City's Foreign Press Association is among the latter. "It's a pity that they get all the acclaim for being the foreign press association," says the New York group's director, Suzanne Adams. The remedy: a separate celebfest, the Icon Awards, set to debut in New York next year. The group will hand out statues in the fields of movies, television, music, fashion, theater and the Internet. While the Golden...
This astonishing return salvaged a year that could have led to back-to-back injury-spoiled seasons, with Clemente's sophomore campaign all but lost to a devastating ankle injury. The performance was astonishing enough, in fact, to gain Clemente Ivy League Player of the Week acclaim alongside Penn's Matt Langel...