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DIED. GENE ALLISON, 69, passionate singer of the gospel-inspired 1957 rhythm-and-blues ballad You Can Make It if You Try, which set the tone for '60s soul music and was recorded by the Rolling Stones on their '64 debut album; of kidney and liver failure; in Nashville, Tenn...
DIED. GENEVIEVE, 83, Parisian chanteuse best known as the Tonight show regular who would bat her eyes at host Jack Paar while struggling with the English language; in Los Angeles. Before making her Tonight debut in 1957, on its second show, she ran a tiny nightclub in Paris where she cooked, served, sang and was spotted by an agent who invited her to America...
DIED. MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE, 87, film, stage and television actress who won an Oscar for her 1949 screen debut, as a Southern Governor's hard-boiled secretary and lover, in All the King's Men; in San Diego. Her voice later became indelible when she mouthed the profanities for Linda Blair's possessed Regan in The Exorcist...
...expensive as designer collections--by implication, those would be the "best"--and are affordable for most middle-class consumers. This year has seen an influx into this market, allowing regular folks who like flipping through fashion magazines to finally live out some of their glossy daydreams. Retailers are carrying debut collections in this category from Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors and Calvin Klein, and new lines from historical better providers Liz Claiborne and Jones New York. "Better is affordable luxury," says LaVelle Olexa, senior vice president of fashion merchandising at Lord & Taylor. "Designers want to appeal to a broader customer base...
Director Patty Jenkins’s debut feature, Monster chronicles the sanguinous final chapter of infamous serial killer Aileen Wuornos and the personal trials that may have led to her murder of seven men. The film has garnered as much attention for star Charlize Theron’s monstrous makeover into the less-than-comely prostitute murderess as it did for the actual performance. Theron’s performance is breakthrough work, painstakingly recreating the intense discomfort of a woman desperate to find a reason not to shoot herself at any given moment. At the film’s core...