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...this season there were also the tempers. LVMH threw down the gauntlet by canceling Alexander McQueen?s last haute couture show for Givenchy on the eve of fashion week. The official explanation?production problems caused by the 35-hour workweek?didn?t fool anyone. McQueen had recently sold 51% of his own company to Gucci Group. More likely is the theory that LVMH wasn?t out to promote the defector. Yves Saint Laurent, who also recently sold his ready-to-wear business to Gucci, had some petty fun at his own show, seating the Gucci-appointed president in the third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frock Wars | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

...tennis and language lessons, to make sure they eat well and are safe. There is little reason to think that the drive to do right by our kids will be any different if and when we are offered the chance to improve them genetically. No one will have to fool us or force us--we will fall over one another to be first to give Junior a better set of genes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Human Engineering: What Should the Rules Be? | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...leggy graduate of one of the country's best schools, Keio University, she defies the stereotype of host-club customers as dateless losers or low-class nightlife workers. "Just a year ago, I thought host clubs were scary places where men tried to fool you out of a lot of money," Aoyama says. "But I found the boys are so friendly and unthreatening. In the shortest time, it's gone from illicit to normal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rent Boys | 1/21/2001 | See Source »

...Nelson didn't want to patronize Delmar or turn him into a farcical fool. One day actress Frances McDormand (director Joel Coen's wife) observed that Nelson looked just like his one-year-old son. It was the revelation Nelson required. Instead of thinking "in all those pejoratives" such as "dumb" or "stupid," he began perceiving Delmar as "innocent of knowledge, seeing the world without context...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Boffo Actors Worth Checking Out | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

Past Gems: The Selfishness in Man The Honky Tonk Downstairs 'Once a Day' 'When Your House Is Not a Home 'Three's a Crowd' 'Mr. Fool' To be honest, you have be a pretty big fan to dig this show. The Possum never was very talkative or loose, and that doesn't change under the lights of a studio. With his usual awkwardness, which is endearing during concerts but doesn't go over so well in this setting, poor George looks like he'd rather be somewhere - anywhere - else. However, his guests on this particular episode - Lorrie Morgan (why hasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George's Gems | 1/5/2001 | See Source »

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