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...image of private investigators in Hollywood has segued over the years from Philip Marlowe to Charlie's Angels. Real-life gumshoe ANTHONY PELLICANO, however, is a throwback to the noir era; he has handled cases for Michael Jackson, Sylvester Stallone and Farrah Fawcett, below, and once described his job as making people "remember why they're afraid of the dark...
DIED. GEORGE BARRIE, 90, artistic former owner and CEO of Faberge who pioneered the use of celebrities in marketing, famously employing Joe Namath, Farrah Fawcett and Margaux Hemingway to promote perfume and hair-care products; in Aventura, Fla. He created the best-selling scent Brut and also co-wrote songs with Sammy Cahn, two of which were nominated for Academy Awards...
...chaos. In the 1980s his headquarters were in the Sudan while that country was in the throes of civil war. When Sudan threw him out, he relocated to the rubble of Afghanistan. In 1993 bin Laden sent some of his top aides to support the Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid. It was Aidid's forces that later killed 18 U.S. servicemen in an extended fire fight, the one described in the book and film Black Hawk Down...
...food in a starving land had been withdrawn. The U.N. peacekeeping force on the ground was essentially impotent to intervene in the clan warfare that had brought the country well over the edge of chaos. The most powerful of the clans was the Habr Gadir, led by Mohammed Farrah Aidid. It became American policy to arrest him and the clan's other leaders and subdue its "militia...
...unlikely entry because you just don't see many musicals at this relentlessly arty independent film festival. But Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the biopic of a whacked-out East German emigre with Courtney Love's disposition and Farrah Fawcett's hairdo, seduced the selection committee. "It's burning with originality and energy," says programmer Shari Frilot. Hedwig always did. When it opened off-Broadway three years ago, critics raved about Stephen Trask's songs, and although the show's writer and star, John Cameron Mitchell, appeared nightly in drag (usually the fastest road to camp marginalization), his hilarious, moving...