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...movies, too, she was too rich for some people's taste, and too thin. Men might call her "the thin girl" in Love in the Afternoon) or "the bird girl" (Green Mansions) or funny face. Funny face? C'est a rire. She looked great in basic black, whether as the existential rag doll of Fred Astaire or the bride of Christ in The Nun's Story. Indeed, in her transformation movies - Sabrina and Funny Face and My Fair Lady - she always looked more gorgeous in Phase One (mousy) than Phase Two (elegant), more ravishing with her hair down than...
...the lawyers of ancient Rome who came up with the modern definition of fatherhood: Mater semper certa est; pater est quem nuptiae demonstrant (rough translation: The mother is obvious; the father is the one she was married to when the child was born). The Romans, however, didn't have access to genetic testing. Dylan Davis did. A few months after his divorce in 2000, Davis, 36, a software engineer in Denver, took a DNA test to confirm a nagging suspicion that he was not the biological father of his 6-year-old twins. The negative test results...
...give Lulu-Louise a tragic-happy ending. At the climax of the 1930 Prix de beaut?, she is a movie star sitting in a screening room about to watch the rushes of her big song. (It's the sad, teasing "Je n'ai qu'un Amour c'est Toi," and, in another 100th birthday present, is covered on the new CD by World Musette, a Paris band fronted by the cartoonist Robert Crumb.) Her jealous lover creeps into the projection booth and, from there, shoots her dead. Brooks' face goes lifeless as her screen image lives. And the song ends...
...rally around me, stalwart haters of artificiality. McMansion delenda est! Let us sow salt into the well-manicured lawns of these suburbanites, so that they will live without their lush Kentucky Bluegrass for a thousand years...
...reversal of voter opinion in recent months—a June poll by Suffolk University’s Political Research Center found that voters supported the initiative by a margin of two to one. Many Harvard Square shops that already have liquor licenses—including C’Est Bon, Cardullo’s Gourmet Shoppe, and the University Wine Shop—opposed the initiative. Cardullo’s owner, Frances R. Cardullo, rejoiced at the measure’s rejection. “I’ve got a big investment in my beer and wine license...