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...pictures of the remains of Detroit...
...What They're Buying In Detroit: The Detroit hatmaker who created Aretha Franklin's Inauguration Day church hat has sold out of the style and says it will be at least a month before he can order more fabric for the chapeau, adorned with Swarovski crystals and an enormous bow. Mr. Song's Millinery has received thousands of orders for the $500 handcrafted hat; the company also offers a similar version...
...certainly one of the least likely blockbusters in some time. Starring Eastwood as a crotchety widower living in Detroit's Highland Park neighborhood - a veteran of the Korean War who eyes his Hmong neighbors suspiciously and launches into racist tirades when provoked - Gran Torino was filmed on location in a mere five weeks on a slim budget of $35 million. The majority of its Hmong characters were played by nonprofessionals. In addressing such tumultuous issues as racial strife, gang warfare and urban blight, it can hardly be categorized as escapist entertainment...
...working-class world that we may not see all that often in blockbusters, but it's something a good many people can relate to," says Karie Bible, an analyst with Exhibitor Relations. Surely Eastwood could not have predicted, when he first set out to make the film, that Detroit's economic woes would be making national headlines by the time Gran Torino arrived in theaters (his character is a retired Ford assembly-plant worker), nor that the movie would be launching into wide release the same day the U.S. government released the darkest unemployment report in 16 years...
...along with access to Chrysler's assembly plants and its distribution network, which stretches across North America. The companies have long been considered a good "fit" because Chrysler's footprint in North America complements Fiat's strength in Europe and South America. (See the best cars from the 2009 Detroit Auto Show...