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...talented perfumers from International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) that in 2000 they began an endeavor to try to bring the odors described in the book to life. Now that the tale of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille?an orphan with an olfactory sense so extraordinary that it compels him to commit unimaginable horrors?is being released as a movie next month, the brains at Thierry Mugler fragrance have teamed up with the noses at IFF to create a set of 15 scents that encapsulate the alternately pungent and sweet-smelling progression of Grenouille's story. Though most of the aromas are enjoyable...
...gave them a call,” he says. After being accepted, he began donating sperm three times a week. With an out-of-town girlfriend, Steve’s new livelihood worked out perfectly for him.“It’s an even better way to commit yourself to not fool around,” Steve says. “Not only are you getting paid for it, there is that moral thing, too.”But don’t drop your pants yet—Steve is one of the one to two percent...
...moved me. When Sam [Mendes] first sent the script to me I was doing a film, I kept thinking about the play. I mentioned it to Kate [Winslet, Mendes's wife] at our kids' nursery school and the next day Sam showed up and said 'If you can commit to Broadway right now, we'll move it,' and I said OK. The material was so compelling, so moving, so relevant. It's unbelievable timely...
...during the Reagan Administration's war on drugs in the 1980s and the zero-tolerance crackdown in the '90s. Calculate in average recidivism rates of 40% for those released from federal penitentiaries and 67% for those who leave state facilities, and it's clear that more crimes are being committed because there are simply more criminals around to commit them. Says Milwaukee district attorney E. Michael McCann: "We're charging the same guys who came through our doors 10 or 20 years...
...turn out that way. When [director] Sam [Mendes] sent the script, I was doing a film, but I kept thinking about the play. I mentioned it to Kate [Winslet, Mendes' wife] at our kids' nursery school, and the next day Sam showed up and said, "If you can commit right now, we'll move it." You've been directed by your husband [Bart Freundlich] three times, most recently in Trust the Man. How much of that film was autobiographical? What I've learned from Bart is that every character is the writer, just different aspects of them...