Word: carlino
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What daughters want is pretty packaging, a funky color--and the feeling that the product was created just for them. The Manhattan-based Tony & Tina hawks a $10 nail polish in a bottle that looks like a rocket. Philosophy, founded by skin-care clinician Cristina Carlino, prefers to look inward for inspiration. Each of its products offers a self-help homily. Soul Owner, for example, encourages the consumer to "review your only true assets. You own your values, your integrity." (Not bad advice, though it comes from an exfoliating foot cream.) San Francisco's BeneFit, a specialty store that began...
...clever (and thus more rewarding) than those of the average thriller. The suspense begins when Sam Hendrix (Mike Yank '02) is asked to hold a doll for a woman as they get off an airplane. The woman promptly disappears--until small-time hoods Mike Talman (Joseph Nuccio '00) and Carlino (Jerry Ruiz '00) find her body in Suzy Hendrix' apartment, placed there by their new employer, Harry Rote (Paul Monteleoni '01). Suzy's blindness allows them to search the apartment for the doll, which contains smuggled heroin. Mike manages to gain Suzy's confidence by pretending...
...teenage helper, Kate Johnsen '01 is appropriately petulant (though she is unfortunately saddled with a number of hackneyed, static lines). Nuccio captures the "teddy-bear" duplicity of Mike Talman while Ruiz, hair slicked back and comb in tow, hams it up for laughs as the incompetent yet menacing Carlino...