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...HURLEY, below, at 36 can still give a blind man whiplash. But stepping aside for younger model CAROLYN MURPHY, 28, as the star for cosmetics giant Estee Lauder must have been a bit unsettling, no? "I couldn't be happier, and remain besotted with, and grateful to, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder, my surrogate American parents!" Hurley gushed. She'll remain a spokeswoman for Lauder fragrances and will try to take more time for acting. (She's got four films in the can, so one wonders how much more time she'll need.) As for Murphy, who beat out Gwyneth Paltrow...
...What could have happened? Those who have been suddenly lost, or seized, report later that their greatest fear was that no one would know what had happened to them. Evelyn Waugh wrote a hilariously spooky novel-as-parable called "A Handful of Dust," in which an Englishman, his marriage destroyed, joins an archaeological expedition to Brazil; the expedition falls apart, and the Englishman, hopelessly lost in deepest jungle, falls into the hands of an illiterate half-breed whose European father years before had left him a complete set of Dickens. The Englishman - vanished from civilization, lost to friends and family...
...Evelyn (Rachel Weisz, co-star of The Mummy and its sequel) is a graduate student in art at a small college in the American Midwest. She meets Adam (Paul Rudd, an appealing young stage and screen veteran who played in Bash), a younger student working as a guard at the local museum, where Evelyn is thinking about spray-painting a penis onto the fig leaf adorning an otherwise nude statue. This first scene poses the question: Does this pretty provocateuse dare cross the line that separates propriety from artistic daring...
...answer is soon evident: she's always in the mood for a manifesto. "There is only art," she proclaims later. "Art that must be created. Whatever the cost." Evelyn is vague about her thesis project; she calls it "this sculpture thingie." Later we learn that her medium is "two very pliable materials: the human flesh and the human will." But from the start, she shows she has the will to dominate. And Adam is an ideal subject...
...pleasant chap, but so schlumpfy and insecure that, when Evelyn calls him "gallant," he snaps back, "Which is medieval for 'loser.'" He needs a makeover. So at her urging, or to please her, Adam remakes himself. He cuts his hair, pumps up, slims down, stops biting his nails, gets contact lenses, even a nose job. He has her initials (E.A.T.) tattooed on his groin. He sees himself in the mirror of her appraising eyes; he wants to be a thing worthy of her love, as she already is of his. And she can't help being impressed: "I gave...