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...even more impressive that the woman in the thin purple dress, drinking chai and wearing makeup and nail polish in various shades of pink, plays a biological man, albeit one who is in the process of becoming a woman, in Transamerica, a low-budget indie film about a transsexual father's road trip with her newly discovered teenage prostitute son. If people thought it was brave of Nicole Kidman to endanger her glamour by wearing a big prosthetic nose or Charlize Theron to put on fake teeth, Huffman is going to get the silver star. In one scene, for longer...
...been severely disfigured by burns or accidents. No one had yet raised a scalpel to try, in part because of numerous medical, ethical and psychological concerns that had to be considered first. That's one reason it was so startling to learn last week that the first face transplant--albeit a partial one--has taken place. Doctors in France reported that they took a triangular patch of facial tissue containing the nose, lips and chin of a brain-dead donor and transplanted them onto a 38-year-old mother of two who had been severely mauled by a dog last...
...DECONSTRUCTED Thanks to designers like Alber Elbaz at Lanvin and Consuelo Castiglione from Marni, all that is slightly unraveled now looks chic. The Canadian luxury label Ports 1961 takes its inspiration from the worn-in look of a global traveler?albeit one who stops in exotic locales. Costume-jewelry designer Roxanne Assoulin is selling out of her slightly rough-around-the-edges ribbon-and-crystal necklaces for Lee Angel...
...same central Milan building, Stefano on the sixth floor, Domenico on the fifth?never mind the houses in Roquebrune, France, and in Stromboli and Portofino, Italy?Dolce and Gabbana live what they consider an ?approachable? life. Gabbana, 43, still rides around his native Milan on a Vespa (albeit a leopard-print one). And Dolce, 47, who hails from a small town near Palermo, Sicily, still walks to work every day. One even gets the sense that they remain starstruck by the celebrities who wear their clothes?although they readily admit they have Madonna on speed dial...
...allows Chang to work closely with students, a vantage that the author “enjoys enormously.”And though Chang will undoubtedly miss many of these students, she eagerly looks forward to beginning her new directorial position and climbing new peaks in her career—albeit in the flat terrain of Iowa. —Briggs-Copeland Lecturer Lan Samantha Chang will be reading from her novel “Inheritance” at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 22 at the Harvard Book Store...