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...that the world has a surfeit of good actresses but damn few movie stars and that she is one of the rare modern avatars of the grand old radiance," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "Acting is easy, glamour is hard." But Stone wants more than to make sin chic. To increase her stature, she must diminish her luster. And so she has chosen the sort of caged-woman melodrama?but with a message -->
...would be wearing the shy, radiant smile that illuminates Il Postino, for last week the film received five nominations from the Motion Picture Academy in Hollywood. Though unsanctioned by the usual arbiters of artistic chic--film festivals and critics' groups--and something less than a breakout box-office hit of the Like Water for Chocolate variety, Il Postino became the first foreign-language film nominated for best picture since Ingmar Bergman's Cries and Whispers 22 years ago. Troisi was cited for his performance, Radford for his direction. Both the screenplay and the score were also nominated. In a race...
...Newport or Palm Beach or Aspen, the brand-new millionaires may live in two-bedroom apartments and wear T shirts and jeans. Rather than jet to Tahoe for the weekend in their Gulfstream, they are liable to be with the kids at the neighborhood soccer league. Running-shoe chic is often a pose in Hollywood and Silicon Valley, but this modesty appears genuine. Today's newly superrich are models of free enterprise, except for one thing: they don't seem all that interested in money...
...card fraud, only to filter back by using a fake passport. When police arrested him, his two-bedroom Queens apartment was littered with boxes of stolen credit-card slips that, authorities believed, gang members used to set up phony accounts. The closets were stuffed with fashionable men's suits, chic handbags and Italian leather shoes, with price tags attached. Adekanbi, says assistant district attorney Diane Peress, "liked to play Santa Claus" by responding to shopping lists from friends in Nigeria. They will surely miss...
...season has consisted mainly of statements from fashion eminences dourly predicting the early demise of the wildly expensive handmade-to-order business. Why then were the spring openings so vibrant, so full of beauty, craft and rich detail? At Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld outdid himself with a masterly display of chic invention and exquisite attention to fit; the pick of the supermodel pack were on hand, and they never looked prettier. At Dior, Gianfranco Ferre chose a theme of flowers--surely an invitation to cliche--and turned out a collection with lightness and youthful charm. Christian Lacroix produced a rhapsodic meditation...