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There are many talented designers, but the work of Lee Alexander McQueen, who was found dead at age 40 on Feb. 11, was spectacular. Even if critics rejected a collection, they could not reject what he had put into it. It was never sloppy, lazy or cavalier. It was magnificently and precisely what he wanted. His diligence and attention to detail were stunning to witness. He was surgical. His draping skills were incredible and his construction beautiful. His work was whimsical and full of humor; it was subversive, political and incredibly sexual, but he had a seriousness about...
Carol was very excited that I was interested in our family's history, even if it was just because a former sitcom actress told me to be. And to my shock, she told me a fascinating story. My great-grandfather Reuben and his brother left Russia instead of serving in the army. This, it seems, is where I get my bravery from. But later, when Reuben's dad was looking to get the rest of the family out of Russia, he sent family members to scout out New York, Brazil and Argentina and wound up ditching my great-grandfather...
...asked me how my son, whom she knew about, was doing, and I felt just a little connected to her. Then she asked me to e-mail his birthplace and -date, as well as my wife's and her parents'. And I was happy to do it. Because even though I may never look at Carol's giant book, whoever does should get to see the most interesting page...
...encyclopedic connoisseur, scholar and rescuer of old movies - a video savant - who makes occasional forays into genre territory. He's done romantic comedy (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore), Merchant-Ivoryish period drama (The Age of Innocence), a musical (New York, New York) and a thriller remake (Cape Fear). Even The Departed is an American version of a Hong Kong cop movie. Now Scorsese has taken on psychological horror, adding a filigree of frissons from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and Val Lewton's artful B movies of the 1940s to Lehane's already dense thicket of chills and tricks...
...people he worked with adored him, because he was easy to adore. I feel very fortunate to have known him, even in the small way that I did, and I'm so sorry that others didn't and won't have that same chance...