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...According to Theatre film buff co-directors, Marianne Lampke and Connie White, each season has a framework of five themes. "We give a certain personality to each day," says White. Here's how it goes: The women are big on film noir, a genre of shadowy crime films featuring cynical, malevolent characters (a "wonderful genre," says Marianne), and Mondays are largely devoted to these movies. Tuesdays host quirky, cult-classic, independent movies, and Wednesdays are reserved for "Recent Raves," selected from new art films that have left mainstream cinema, but are yet to be released on video. Thursdays feature films...
...underwear mogul, you surely cannot lack confidence. So it is with Bill Farley. The handsome physical-fitness buff has under his belt brands like BVD, Munsingwear and his flagship, Fruit of the Loom. He rubs shoulders with the rich and powerful, and recently co-chaired a lunch that raised more than $500,000 for George W. Bush. Muscles rippling, Farley, 57, has also shown up wearing a tank top in Fruit of the Loom advertising. He once even put himself forward as a candidate for President of the United States...
...pulls him into a clinch. The happiest surprise is Yates, a svelte ex-Rockette with legs that could make an archbishop sweat. But all the pistons in this engine stroke in the right order, and while you won't recognize any of the names unless you're a theater buff, their collective star quality is unquestionable...
...SEAT IS BIGGER THAN YOURS In Talk magazine, Arnold Schwarzenegger toyed with the idea of running for Governor of California. If he ever does, he'll face a tough race--and some buff fellow Governors. Who's most macho...
Crooners and strummers have to work harder than sparkly pop stars, it seems. The annual Boston Folk Festival last weekend showed that they do work harder. Shuttling between the bright orange seats of the UMass Science Center and lawn chairs and coolers outside, I was rewarded by artists buff enough to take the bruises from hours of practice, by new and high crystal voices, and music coaxed out of beat-up guitars by unmanicured hands. This Saturday was the story of the unglamorous side of the American music dream...