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...Fish, his finish is almost unrecognizable. There's nothing remotely respectable about Bradley "The Jockey" Thompson, a character so crooked he seems straight. As the former lover of Hugo Weaving's ex-AFL footballer junky (in turn the confidant of a strung-out video-store proprietress played by Cate Blanchett) he's the toxic puppeteer of Rowan Woods' eye-opening Cabramatta-set crime thriller. Woods, the edgy social realist director of The Boys (1998), saw it as a challenge to reinvent the star. "He's nearly always the distinguished gent," says Woods, "as opposed to this, where...
...McKenzie. The elfin actress first broke hearts as the little girl lost in a gang of neo-Nazi skinheads in Romper Stomper (1992), and proved the perfect Ophelia in Neil Armfield's acclaimed 1994 production of Hamlet. But when that play toured, her role was taken over by Cate Blanchett. And for the latter part of the '90s, McKenzie's star seemed eclipsed by a succession of less dangerous, more girl-next-door types...
...diaper bag with as many pockets as her trusty military knapsack, she decided to make one. Then she sold one on eBay. After hand sewing 500 bags, she decided last year to find a manufacturer and sell wholesale to baby boutiques. She garnered celebrity clients like Cate Blanchett, Gwyneth Paltrow and Courteney Cox, and she projects $100,000 in sales this year. "I seriously don't want it to get too large," she says. "I always wanted to be a stay-at-home mom. I didn't want to go back to work and travel all over the place...
...shied away from hot-button issues like asylum seekers. "There was a moment when he was a Chinese artist living in Australia, then he became a Chinese-Australian artist, and now he's an Australian artist," says dealer Sherman. At Guan Wei's most recent show last year, Cate Blanchett became a collector. "She spent hours, hours, talking to him, and about the work," Sherman recalls. "She was absolutely fascinated...
...Care to guess the source of the hottest handbags of the moment?the ones that celebrities like Toni Braxton, Sarah Michelle-Gellar and Cate Blanchett have been toting? The answer is Hanoi?or, to be precise, the Vietnamese capital's Ipa-Nima boutique (ipa-nima.com). Founded in 1997 by a onetime lawyer, Hong Kong-born Christina Yu, Ipa-Nima had grand ambitions from the outset, exporting colorful, individually patterned handbags under its own label to stores like Henri Bendel and Barney's in Manhattan, and Harvey Nichols in London. Although diehard fashionistas were quick to discover Ipa-Nima, it's only...