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Lisa Price needs a bigger kitchen. That's where Brooklyn's beauty secret for the past 12 years, Carol's Daughter, brews 350 types of skin- and hair-care products with homemade appeal and tropical scents. Founder Price, 34, joined forces eight months ago with ex--record executive Steve Stoute, and the hip-hop and business matchmaker recruited seven investors--including rapper Jay-Z, former Sony mogul Tommy Mottola and Will Smith--to put the bling--$10 million--into the brand. So far, it seems, the money has been well spent. "There's some fairy-tale dust going on," says...
...shock of Giamatti's good humor is ultimately a testament to his performances. Harvey Pekar and Miles Raymond ennobled themselves by overcoming their bitterness; Giamatti, who lives with his wife and 4-year-old son in Brooklyn, N.Y., has none to overcome. "We were out once," says Pulcini, "and he ordered a Chianti, and he was really surprised when it came. He thought it was going to be white. I mean, he knows nothing about wine. You forget it was just a performance." Great actors can do that...
...something bigger than yourself, not just because your individuality is rendered insignificant in the mass of the crowd, but because being a fan involves faith. No matter what its current form may be, your team is worthy of blind devotion?or will soon redeem itself. Belief is all. As Brooklyn Dodgers fans said in the 1950s: Wait 'til next year...
...just because your individuality is rendered insignificant in the crush of the crowd, but because being a fan involves faith. No matter what their current form may be, your team is the best - and if it doesn't prove that now, it will soon. Belief is all. As Brooklyn Dodgers fans said in the 1950s: Wait 'til next year...
...tonight, Mos isn't talking philosophy. (He isn't talking about his personal life either. For what it's worth: he's unmarried, was born, raised and lives in Brooklyn, and has two kids.) Cued by the lousy music in the hotel restaurant, he launches into an inspired impression of himself seducing a date to light jazz: "Oh yeah. Oh. Yeah. Let me close these blinds. Is it hot in here? It's gotta be these hot, smooth sounds!" When he learns that I used to play the cello, he becomes an M.C. busting rhymes over a solo cellist: "Break...