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Gucci has been on a much hillier path. After years of mismanagement by the Gucci family, the company finally went public in 1995, and its fortunes began to rise like hemlines. With the help of 36-year-old American designer Tom Ford, CEO and president Domenico De Sole transformed Gucci from the butt of jokes about men who wear loafers to a label both Seventh Avenue and Wall Street adore. (Ford's first famous look: velvet hiphuggers and a satin shirt.) Incontrovertible evidence of how far it has come: Helen Hunt wore Gucci to the Oscars this year...
There is no love lost between the two houses. In an interview last year, Bertelli accused Ford of stealing his wife's ideas: "They did black nylon bags and put their bamboo handles on them; they did our high-gloss calfskin--they started using all our materials," he said. "It doesn't make sense. Gucci should follow its own strategy, not mine." Such bluster, says a Gucci spokesman, is common among fashion designers. Ford and De Sole have ignored...
...fool not to recognize the fear and hesitation around this movie," says Heche (pronounced Haych) as she lights yet another cigarette. "Obviously, it's super-superexciting to play opposite Harrison Ford, but frankly, it wasn't as exciting as finding the love of my life." Dressed in old brown corduroys and a skimpy T shirt, Heche looks the very picture of elfin delicacy, hardly the "biker chick" symbol for gay rights that she figures her detractors expect. Having started in show biz at age 12, she marvels that anyone would question her acting ability now--and for a fairly simple...
...news first: Anne Heche is a completely persuasive object for Harrison Ford's (or any other male heterosexual's) attentions. Actually, this is no news at all--not to anyone who has seen her work in movies as various as Donnie Brasco, Wag the Dog and Volcano. In them Heche established the fact that she's good in crises, vulnerable yet capable, not someone the ravening male ego can walk all over, yet supportive when the crunch comes...
This puts a burden on the stars, for the movie has to run on their charm. Ford's cranky masculinity is, of course, a known quantity, although it's always fun to watch him simmer, snort and eventually soften. Snub-nosed, wide-eyed and high-spirited, Heche has an equally conventional transition to make, from Xanex-popping, would-be sophisticate with minimal survival skills to a woman who can bop a bad guy with a fallen tree branch and help repair the airplane for a getaway. She is also encumbered with a tiresome fiance (David Schwimmer), who takes...