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...avail. At which point enters legendary press agent Harry Reichenbach, master of old-fashioned ballyhoo (he had once faked a star's kidnapping to promote a film). Reichenbach was managing the Colony Theater in New York City, and he advised Disney to appeal directly to the public. Give me your little movie for a two-week run, he told Disney, and I'll give you $1,000 and make your mouse famous. The producer was dubious but desperate to make payroll--and he made the deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nov. 18, 1928 | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...backseat of president John F. Kennedy's limousine was a leather pit of horror, flecked with bits of flesh and a crust of drying blood that a grim young Secret Service agent was trying to wipe up with a sponge. He seemed hesitant, cowed by the task. On the front seat of the Lincoln lay the crushed red roses that Jackie Kennedy had been carrying. It was a certain and brutal end to a great national drama, but none of the people milling around on the driveway of Parkland Hospital that day wanted to allow the curtain to fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nov. 22, 1963 | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

Charles Hulse, an Arkansas native and a Galle real estate agent, for years split his time between Paris and the Greek isle of Hydra before settling in a tastefully restored Galle house with interiors fit for Architectural Digest. Hulse notes that the cost of restoring a fort house usually runs more than half the purchase price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Life: Home Address: Paradise | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

...pair in the video Jenny from the Block, and Halle Berry donned a sporty wide-side, low-hip brief in Die Another Day. "The shape is fresh and functional," says Sarah Easley, co-owner of the hip Manhattan clothing store Kirna Zabete, which, along with specialty lingerie shops like Agent Provocateur, is selling a lot of panties. The trend takes its cue from sports, especially surfing--hence the low-sitting bikini-cut look. After all, as Easley points out, "it's just more comfortable to play Frisbee in briefs than in a thong." --By Isabel C. Gonzalez

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Thongs Fade, Briefs Are Back | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

...secret agent, Charles was the target of several murder attempts, probably by the communists. One bullet found his left leg, and he has the scar to prove it. Another left a dent in his head. Jackie has a similar souvenir, from a 1986 stunt that nearly killed him. Charles waves this off: "You injured yourself on a film shoot!" The boy is made of steel, the father of cobalt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Family Lost and Found | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

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