Word: glamourizer
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...There’s Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon ’47 is close by, and of course, there’s Marilyn. Sure, they may just be DVD projections on the screen behind the stage at the Brattle Theater. But what matters now is the old-school Hollywood glamour that the Origins makeup representatives are transmitting through brushes and blushes, through powders and poufs, at Tuesday’s “Get Made Up with Marilyn” event...
...years he and Ford had engineered a miraculous transformation of Gucci--from a dying label with $200 million in revenue into a flourishing, $3 billion luxury conglomerate with subsidiaries that include such brands as Yves Saint Laurent (YSL), Stella McCartney and Alexander McQueen. With his eye for louche glamour and his movie-star image, Ford, 42, redefined luxury, giving it a sexy, provocative edge. For most of the '90s it seemed as if he and De Sole could do no wrong. Ford had an unerring eye for reinterpreting what the public wanted; De Sole's managerial acumen made Gucci into...
Lowe was swept into the Kennedy glamour circle before most people knew there was such a thing. He was a half-Jewish kid born in Cologne, Germany, who hid from the Nazis with his mother in World War II and headed for America as soon as the war was over. When he arrived, he worked as an intern for some of the great LIFE photographers and developed a skill with the honest eye of the 35-mm camera...
...then, we don't have to be. For a critic or a filmgoer, an actor's private life should be irrelevant to the art and glamour he can create onscreen. And there, alchemy occurs. Crowe is often magnificent: attractive, complex, subtle. Watching him slip inside a role is a matter not of forgiving but of forgetting all the tabloid baggage. The lout of a thousand headlines vanishes, and the superb movie actor appears magically in his place. When Crowe is at the helm of a movie, we're proud to sail with...
...After a sumptuous lunch served by uniformed waiters, the Boss heads for the Goa airport, where his private Boeing 727 is prepped for take-off. Is the destination Monaco, Gstaad or any number of other international playgrounds befitting the 47-year-old glamour boy of Indian business? Hardly. Vijay Mallya is hitting the campaign trail...