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...when the collector is a design tycoon and lifestyle vendor like Lauren, the real question is how to avoid making the exhibition, which will run from March 6 to July 3, just another branding opportunity for his company. The MFA's answer is to confine Lauren mostly to a big wet kiss of an interview in the catalog, where he offers purring reflections on style, plugs his running shoes and tells us that fashion and automobiles make a perfect fit. In fact, the fashion show he just sent down the New York City catwalks was inspired by his cars...
...highlights The two-disc collector's edition of this tense, loopy love story would be worth the extra few bucks just for the running commentary by elusive Charlie Kaufman, the Salinger of screenwriters. And by the way, who does Jim Carrey have to, you know, make love to to get an Oscar nomination...
...face was shrouded in a traditional Arab scarf, or yeshmargh. He flashed his lights and blared his horn for a bus to get out of his way. "He accelerated as he passed me," recalls the bus driver. Just as Aziz was about to cross the street, and the garbage collector was stepping back to his vehicle, the truck reached the earth-filled blast barriers around the barracks and embassy. According to an Iraqi guard at a nearby compound, the driver jumped from the cab of the truck, slipped into a waiting car and sped off. But most witnesses...
...Jadriyah road, facing the embassy, the garbage collector lay dead. Sabah's bloodied body was found by soldiers and identified by one of the police officers at the al-Hamra checkpoint. A hotel security guard took his body to the morgue and collected donations for his funeral. At least eight other civilians were wounded, including a 10-year-old boy who was rushed to hospital in the back of a police car, his face and arm gushing crimson. Behind their carefully positioned blast walls, sandbags and bunkers, the Australians survived; two were slightly wounded, but called home later to reassure...
...Ideally,” says Pasternack, “I’d find something that would allow me to unite all of my interests, and the only way I see that happening is if I become an experimental musician-slash-recycling collector, slash documentarian, slash also working for an international humanitarian organization...