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...including watches and men's suits, shirts and ties. To prevent the stores from cherry picking, they made the unusual stipulation that in order to carry any part of the collection, retailers would have to buy from each category. Finally, they devised a family-theme advertising campaign that would attract a 35-year-old mind-set. As Kors likes to say, everyone wants to look as if they're 35, whether they're 22 and want to be more sophisticated or they're 55 and want to look younger...
...French director Patrice Leconte, and one feels obliged to advise Hollywood to beat a path to his door. The man invents better mousetraps than anyone in the American industry--entertaining and deadly little contraptions that are also slyly muted melodramas about the way apparent opposites do not so much attract as join forces to muddle through life's inevitable messiness...
...Trevor Nunn?s ?Hamlet?,? one wrote. ?In forty years? time you will be able to tell the grandchildren that you saw Ben Whishaw?s first great role.? In black garb, with a thin white face, his crimson lips the only color in his array, Whishaw does attract attention. He gets vamped by every woman from his flirtatious mom to Ophelia (Samantha Whittaker), dressed in schoolgirl plaids and played as a sexually precocious teeny-bopper who needs Hamlet as much as he needs his own onanistic misery. He stretches in his chair like a Catalan death puppet, and often holds...
...museum envisioned by Wilder, a descendant of slaves, will unabashedly be a museum about the brutal merchandising of human beings. The Freedom Center in Cincinnati, which cost $110 million to build and hopes to attract 250,000 visitors each year, has wider ambitions. Or looked at another way, it's more circumspect about its approach to a difficult subject. Even the center's name sidesteps the loaded word slavery. By taking the Underground Railroad as its focus, the center gets to emphasize biracial resistance, not racial victimization, a rare triumph of black and white cooperation in those days...
...their success is good for the sport of beach volleyball, which is gaining in popularity with each Olympic appearance. And now, with the Olympic gold and bronze in the hands of Americans, the sport may attract more younger players that could help Americans remain on the podium in Beijing and beyond...