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...late '90s aspiring rock musicians in such hip neighborhoods as the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, N.Y., started wearing them as a tribute to Rust and Farm Belt masculinity. Now fashion designers like Heatherette, below, place them on the perfectly coiffed heads of runway models, and Hollywood blades like Benicio Del Toro wear them out on the town. The big ol'brim might even protect their vision from camera flashbulbs. --By Benjamin Nugent
Juan M. Silva ’88 and Academy Award-winning actor Benicio Del Toro collected iguanas and South American alligators while growing up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Friends since childhood, Silva and Del Toro have abandoned reptiles and are now teaming up to make a movie, slated for release...
...does Silva fear that his script will be corrupted by Hollywood commercialism. “I’m working with a friend, and he has a good team working with him,” he says. “I’ve been lucky to have Benicio Del Toro as a collaborator. I have learned a lot from...
PUSHING THE ENVELOPE Want to live longer? Julia Roberts and Benicio Del Toro may be on to something. A Canadian study of every actor ever considered for an Oscar shows that winning the golden guy--as opposed to just being nominated for one--increases life expectancy nearly four years. What's the lesson? Being at the top of your game is not merely gratifying, it's healthy. Just ask Katharine Hepburn. The most Oscar-winning actress of all time (four in all) this month celebrated her 94th birthday...
Director Steven Soderbergh gives us a brilliant series of intertwining vignettes about the performance-enhancing drug trade in the Sydney Olympics. Benicio Del Toro is a conflicted, street-smart International Olympic Committee official who tries and fails to deal with the problem. Catherine Zeta-Jones is an Olympic gymnast who loses her gold medal after testing positive for banned substances found in common vitamin supplements. Michael Douglas is IOC Chair Juan Antonio Samaranch, who is too busy accepting bribes from various cities that want the games to fix anything...