Word: furriers
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...have long been an advocate of cheating. It started when my dad fooled an IRS auditor by comparing different vintages of phone book, finding an out-of-business furrier and getting me to use my Apple IIe to create a fake receipt to prove a false fur-coat donation. I'm a big fan of the statute of limitations. While some would call that tax fraud, I thought of it as preventing animal cruelty...
...course, dogs know no uncertain times. That's what makes them more than just cuter, furrier actors, says David Frankel, Marley & Me's director. "There's something wonderful about the way dogs live in the moment. They don't look back. They don't yearn. They don't want what they don't have. Clearly, we are not like that as a nation...
...only furrier who sold fur that didn't keep you warm...
...outside world.? Gilles created coats in which he sheared off all the hair so that they felt and looked like cashmere; he cut swaths of mink into pieces and sewed them back together in loose, fragile strips that offered neither bulk nor insulation. ?I was the only furrier who sold fur that didn't keep you warm,? he says...
Amid the chaos and crowds of Coney Island, Ed Zander learned an early lesson in the value of hustle and patience. The son of a furrier in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Zander loved the Parachute Jump, the Silver Streak and, of course, the Cyclone. After school he and his brother would stand at the exit to Steeplechase Park for hours and charm people out of unused ride tickets, hoarding them in a rented locker. "We had, like, 3,000 free rides," Zander says. By summertime, they could spend all day in the park without ever buying a ticket...