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Until the rise of Fidel Castro, the longest running dictator in the Caribbean league was Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, the undisputed ruler of the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961. Those were the glamour years for tin-pot tyrants, and Trujillo did his best (or worst) to epitomize the pre-Castro stereotype. His uniforms were the spiffiest, his medals the most splendiferous and his enemies the most fearful. He was hailed as God's gift to the nation and was its unchallenged alpha male--the First Phallus of the Republic...
...while reading Glamour magazine, I find that I always go through the same silly little ritual. I invariably read my—in fact all—of the horoscopes, comment on how stupid they are and ask my roommates what kind of person bases any sort of decision, serious or otherwise on advice like “This month’s eclipse activity shifts your focus to career growth. Go for it Rams!” I find Glamourscope, as the magazine calls it, especially entertaining because, besides giving a general reading, it offers each sign...
...next article, ad, or embarrassing trauma-rama of the week, I still go through the ritual of reading them until I find one that almost, kind of fits. And since they are all unspecific to a fault and don’t mean anything in my non-Glamour-reading life, I know I’ll never be disappointed and usually quite entertained...
...that, like his protagonist, he possesses “a vague dissatisfaction with modern life...I have always romanticized the past and that shows up in my politics”. Indeed, his room is adorned with posters of Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe - stars from Hollywood’s glamour heyday - as well as a towering tribute to Gladiator. “I think that Russell Crowe’s evocation of manhood is something all men should aspire to”, he explains, “particularly when there are such obvious parallels between Rome and the United States...
...matinee idol and the brains of a subversive mogul. Like his Sundance Film Festival--where each January in Park City, Utah, makers of low-budget films mix with cell phone-addicted agents and studio executives--Redford is a fiercely independent entity with an inescapable aura of Hollywood glamour...