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...movie in a dead language about the anguish and suffering of Jesus Christ? Why, a family sitcom! Mel Gibson is producing a comedy inspired in part by his own life as the father of six boys. ABC has ordered a pilot of The Savages, which is about a blue-collar single dad who is raising five boys. Gibson, who also has a daughter, will co-direct the pilot with Mike Scully, executive producer of The Simpsons. Scully and his wife Julie Thacker will co-write the script. "Mike and I decided to do a comedy about five boys," said Thacker...
...lionhearted military man who has lost his country but not his will to power, clings to his pride and decorum, changing into a suit after his grimy, sweaty workdays on a road-construction crew so that he can go home to his wife and son in white-collar dignity. Connelly plays a recovering alcoholic struggling with depression who makes the critical error of failing to pay her property taxes. He uses his savings to buy her California home at auction - a step toward rebuilding his family's prosperity. She believes the house is still rightfully hers and battles back - with...
...Asian fashion landscape for 2004 can be summed up in one word, it would be "contrast." A recent fashion week in Hong Kong saw models strutting down the catwalk in items such as a sheer hot pink scarf with gray suit lapels stitched on to form a faux collar (courtesy of And Then ...), a knit cap festooned with baby toys (Aeju), and an ensemble made up of a thick knit wool skirt and a luridly turquoise silk top (Tell U What...
DIED. JAMES JORDAN JR., 73, advertising executive who created some of the catchiest product slogans in Madison Avenue history; of an apparent heart attack; in St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. In 1968 he came up with the line "Wisk beats ring around the collar," reportedly after research found shirt-collar dirt to be among homemakers' peskiest wash problems. He also drummed into Americans' heads the notions that Tareyton smokers "would rather fight than switch" and that "Delta is ready when...
...summed up in one word, it would be "contrast" - bracing combinations of color and fabric, tradition and innovation. A recent fashion week in Hong Kong saw one model strutting down the catwalk in a sheer hot pink scarf with gray suit lapels stitched on to form a faux collar (a design by And Then ...); another in a knit cap festooned with baby toys (Aeju); and a third in a thick knit-wool skirt with a filmy, bright turquoise silk top (Tell U What). While most of the madness will stay on the runway, fashionistas are injecting a little...