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...Dame Helen Mirren enters the room drinking a vodka gimlet and wearing her spangly Christian Lacroix dress. She waxes about the "theatah," confesses, "I really do feel like a Queen - or a fairy princess" and answers a question in fluent French. The room's earlier stone cold fox assessment is elevated to living legend...
Drawn to the Dark Side UNCOVERED: Decades before the graphic novel became trendy, a few Japanese cartoonists were turning out gekiga (dramatic pictures), darkly realistic comic strips that appeared in lowbrow magazines in 1960s Japan. It was a prosperous time for the nation, but viewed through the gimlet eye of gekiga pioneer Yoshihiro Tatsumi, industrialization brought not wealth but alienation and cultural confusion. Nearly 40 years after initial publication, Tatsumi's bizarre, tabloid-inspired manga remains relevant?and this fall, non-Japanese readers will be able to sample the best of it when Abandon the Old in Tokyo, a collection...
...chaos," remembers Jimmy Keen, a lieutenant with the New Orleans police department (N.O.P.D.) and the former commander of the homicide unit. Keen joined the department at age 19 and has stayed for 30 years. He has white hair swept back off his forehead, gimlet eyes and the bone-dry sense of humor adopted by police officers whose intentions have been knocking up against reality for a long time...
...hatched by Los Angeles--based interior designer Kelly Wearstler. Best known as the gimlet eye behind such hip hotels as the Viceroy Santa Monica and colorful stores like Trina Turk in Palm Springs, Calif., Wearstler is the queen of Hollywood Regency, a decorating style that blends French Regency, Greek Revival and classic Hollywood. Wearstler's zingy oeuvre is at the forefront of what could be called haute femme, a taste for ornamentation and romanticism that is emerging as a major new trend in commercial and residential design...
...restaurant’s signature cocktail, the Basil Lime Gimlet ($9), to any meal for an unexpectedly smooth combination of tart lime and sweet basil. The wine list, which is limited to Italian wines and arranged by region, also offers many wines by the glass and a number of moderately priced bottles...