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...Friday and have to watch Saturday’s game from the press box. But he’s a smart guy. He knows how talented he is, and how it hurts his team when he’s in the box, rather than on the ice. You can bet he’ll adjust accordingly this weekend...
...want to predict what's ahead, your best bet may be to look back. Just ask the vintage aficionados, some of whose best customers are fashion designers in search of inspiration. "Gucci bought [1960s] bathing suits and told us to look for [them] on the runway," says Sara George, a co-owner of Miami Twice, a 5,000-sq.-ft. smorgasbord of everything from new $8 tank tops to $2,500 Civil War--era Irish-lace wedding gowns. Anna Corinna is always on the lookout for pieces for designers. And though she won't name names, she will offer...
...child molestation has directed films for Disney and New Line. Gibson's criminal rap sheet is clean; he is guilty only of standing by his deluded old man and expressing opinions that are less popular in Hollywood than they are in the rest of the country. So my bet is that the studios will keep hiring him, for two reasons. One: they believe in box office, and Mel delivers it for them. Two: they could then boast they have hired at least a token religious right-winger...
...attitude goes beyond religion. For better or worse, the current tone is skeptical, derisive and gross. Years ago, American Pie replaced American piety. A lot of movie people don't respect Gibson?s obsession with his Passion project; they are offended by it; fear it. And I'll bet, since the movie could earn huge profits for Gibson and his distribution partners, they resent...
...might say, for instance, that Brian Palmer plays fast and loose with academics, that his class is bent more around liberal ideology than scholarly pursuits. To which, he and his supporters chime in, “you bet.” At every Palmer event I’ve attended (about five), he references a New York Times article which labels his class, appropriately, “Idealism 101” and distributes a Christian Science Monitor expose that depicts him as a liberal ideologue in and outside the classroom. He was a featured speaker at Harvard?...