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DIED. MARY THOMPSON, 120, indefatigable centenarian who reportedly "always kept her .22 in her bra"; in Orlando, Florida. The daughter of former slaves, Thompson never had a birth certificate, but the Social Security Administration traced her birth back to 1876. Until last week, that made her the oldest living American...
These are certainly soigne show-business circles, especially for a model-actress who first came to the world's attention wearing a silver bra in an unseemly Aerosmith video featuring her father, the band's lead singer Steven Tyler. Because Liv grew up obsessed with movies like Night of the Living Dead rather than movies like The Conformist, working with heavyweight directors has been admittedly scary. "There was all this internal fear," she reflects...
...fitting leather bell bottoms. "You're so sexy," George tells her, "even the wild animals love you." That line wouldn't get most men very far. But here, in the glamorous, goofily lewd world of Strangers, it proves winning. Before we know it, George is relieving Julie of her bra. On camera...
...shirt business was smart and inevitable," says Faye Landes, a clothing analyst at Smith Barney. The news was hailed as continuing evidence of Wachner's devotion to the bottom line and her goal of transforming Warnaco into what she has called the "Coca-Cola of the bra business...
...driven performer, Wachner, 50, rose from a bra-and-girdle buyer at Macy's to head cosmetics giant Max Factor. In 1986 she masterminded a hostile buyout at Warnaco and took the company public in 1991. As a mogul, she helicopters from her Park Avenue headquarters to a mansion in the Hamptons, New York's summer-resort community. As a manager, Wachner once made a FORTUNE roster of "Toughest Bosses" for her low tolerance for underperformers. "You'd better start firing people," the magazine quoted her telling a newly arrived executive, "so they'll understand you're serious...