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...enormous amount of confidence to ask people to hire you for your interpretation of their taste. Bridges has that, but without hubris. "People have such a glamorous image of interior designing," she says. "There are days that I play delivery person, attorney, psychiatrist, tech-support staff and bill collector." Decoration isn't social justice. It does take a lot of shopping. But to do it well is to improve people's lives in a way they couldn't do themselves...
...Murphy as a lunar-nightclub owner, wrapped a year ago, and was originally scheduled for an April 6 release by Warner Bros.' Castle Rock division. Then it was bumped to the fall. Now it's consigned to the wintry abyss of Jan. 18. Maybe. Producer Martin Bregman (The Bone Collector), who's had Nash in development for 20 years, blames the delay on getting the special effects right, but an early screening in January made it clear that reshoots wouldn't be a bad idea. Spoiler website Ain'tItCoolNews slammed the film for "lame action and almost no laughs." Wisecracks...
...high school student, Andy Knoll was an avid fossil collector, but it never occurred to him that he would someday become a paleontologist. Where he came from, a small town near Reading, Pa., bright teenagers aspired to careers in medicine, law and, in Knoll's case, engineering. But one day while sitting in his dorm room at Lehigh University, Knoll realized that he hated engineering and loved biology and geology. That's when it hit him: as a paleontologist he could indulge his passion for both...
...Valerie, this shop's owner, has realized a dream of providing dolls of color for the collector or novice. Porcelain dolls, spoon dolls, painted faces on frying pans; soap holders with brown faces and an expanding line of doll handicrafts line the walls of this gutsy store. With the sturdy Bag Lady, stash excess shopping bags in style...
...that took her across Mississippi, and she took her camera along. Besides photographing people, Welty snapped images of a Mississippi that no longer exists, except in her stories. Some of Welty's photos were exhibited in small New York galleries in 1936 and 1937. Today, they are highly-valued collector's items...