Word: chic
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...truth, Fifi doesn't feel very young. She is, after all, already 22 years old. In fact, Fifi's thinking of changing her English name to Cheyenne, because a Western friend told her the name fits someone mature, mysterious and chic. And Fifi wants to be all three. An old boyfriend gave her the name "Fifi." But that was back when she wasn't fully formed, when she hadn't developed the "Cheyenne-ness" of her character...
JUDGMENT CALL It'll never be what it was in 1982, but could earn chic rebel status as the anti-PlayStation...
...cocaine is passe. Ecstasy is for kids. The hot new drugs are numbing blasts from the past, the ones with which such burnished icons as Elvis and Liz made headlines in their heydays of excess. Young superstar actors, rappers and chart-topping singers are popping pain pills. It's chic, it's mellowing, and some think it's funny. During January's Golden Globe awards, Just Shoot Me star David Spade joked, "I found 10 Vicodin in my gift basket." Michael Jackson and Anna Nicole Smith, Chevy Chase and quarterback Brett Favre have been addicted to prescription drugs. Friends' Matthew...
...MUSLIM CHIC Heading to Afghanistan and hoping to blend in with the locals? Better lose the T shirt from Springsteen's Born in the USA tour or the one emblazoned with a Yankees logo. Instead, pick up a paean to local legend Osama bin Laden. Though he is considered a terrorist and all-round pariah in these parts, at home his name moves merchandise...
...says Nancy Juvenon, Barrymore's partner in Flower Films, which will produce a remake of the Jane Fonda sex sci-fi spoof "Barbarella," with Barrymore in the title role. (Flower has three projects in the works; that makes Barrymore, 26, a baby mogul, or mo-girl.) Now the un-chic phrase, the F-word, is feminism, because it connotes a starchy righteousness. "A bad thing about old-style feminism," says Amy Pascal, the Columbia Pictures chairman who greenlighted "Charlie's," "was that you could be a brain surgeon but you couldn't be a sexy brain surgeon. Finally some woman...