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...same mid-century marketing logic that gave us the soap opera: more women are home watching television during the day than are men. Take for instance Ricki Lake, Kathie Lee Gifford, or the Eumenides that populate “The View.” By contrast, the best-known women who work in late night TV are probably the staffers who slept with Dave Letterman...
...land famed for its elaborate culinary arts, the best-known chef is a chubby, smiling cartoon character. Master Kong (Kang Shifu) has been gracing the packets of instant noodles since the early 1990s, and is the creation of Tingyi, a company that chairman Wei Ing-chou built out of his parents' edible-oils firm in Taiwan's rural Changhua county. Thinking that mainland China's rapid development would boost demand for the kind of quick, cheap meals that workers would fill up on during factory breaks or after a punishing shift, he decided to cross the Taiwan Strait...
Comebacks can be tough - even when you are famous enough to be known only by your initials. So it has been this week in Paris, where France's best-known contemporary philosopher, Bernard-Henri Lévy - or BHL, as he is universally known - has been trying to explain how he was hoodwinked by a fictional character he had taken for a great thinker...
Temple Grandin is America's best-known autistic person, and she's about to become much more famous. On February 6, HBO debuts a feature film that stars Claire Danes as the gawky, socially impaired but brilliant animal scientist who, despite her disability - or in many ways, because of it - has achieved enormous success in two arenas: as designer of humane cattle-handling facilities and an author and outspoken voice on autism. The movie, Temple Grandin, tracks Grandin's early years as a child who had no speech and very little connection to the world at age four, through...
Most of Wanders' best-known pieces are on display in Philadelphia, along with an array of never-released prototypes and rare editions. More are featured in a series of accompanying videos and short films purpose-made for "Daydreams." Many of the clips feature Wanders shown in an almost hologram-like manner, explaining his inspirations just steps away from the resulting products...