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...humanity. His wimpy artist brother Dennis turns up on his doorstep, fleeing an imploding marriage. Both men develop raging crushes on Stephanie, a bored and incorrigibly sexy lawyer who happens to be Dennis' wife's best friend. Then Hugo's estranged con-woman wife Sonia rematerializes and installs herself chez Hugo with her daughter Bellatrix, who may or may not be his child...
...This gargantuan show at Vegas? Caesars Palace is a controversial subject chez Corliss. Husband was enthralled, wife repelled. But I?m writing the column, so here goes. With gigantic colonnades at the beginning and shooting stars and meteor showers at the climax, director Franco Dragone encases his stars, nearly smothers her (and that?s all right with me) in production values. You?ll never see anything so stupendous. Or stupefying. (Mary just called in: ?Or stupid...
...like your nights a little less frantic, make for Gangnam, Seoul's own Beverly Hills, complete with a 24-hour beauty salon, big-brand shopping and wine bars, of which Chez Joey, tel: (82-2) 555 8926, is one of the smartest. Set up by long-haired owner and sommelier Ahn Joon-buem on his return from Paris, it's an oasis for live music, especially cool jazz. Even the barmen will treat you to impromptu licks on the guitar: the waiting staff are professional musicians earning an extra buck...
...women and children to the macho snack with softer, tenderer products such as jerky nuggets and more sophisticated flavors like Hawaiian teriyaki. There is even a vegetarian option: meatless jerky made from mushrooms or soybeans. Niman Ranch, whose meats adorn plates at such acclaimed restaurants as Gramercy Tavern and Chez Panisse, has started selling steak jerky for $29 per 9 oz. in the Williams-Sonoma catalog this fall. If your palate demands something more exotic, try game jerky by Covered Wagon Jerky in Derby, Kans. It offers wild boar, ostrich, pheasant and outback-kangaroo jerkies. --By Kristin Kloberdanz
...residential real-estate developer Cogedim, and won't say why the plan fizzled. But the exception just proves the rule. As Jean-Louis Costes puts it: "A famous politician told me, 'You're just a tiny bit better than all the other places, and that's why we come.' Chez nous, you won't find much that pisses you off." It's unlikely the two brothers will slow down anytime soon. Gilbert steps down from the commerce tribunal, France's court for commercial litigation, next year after serving for 13 years, which will free him for more business without worrying...