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DIED. LADY DIANA MOSLEY, 93, most scandalous and, some thought, most beautiful of the six famous Mitford sisters; in Paris. She left her first husband, heir to the Guinness brewing fortune, to run away with Sir Oswald Mosley, the widely hated head of Britain's fascist party. After spending some of the war years in a London prison, she and her husband moved to Paris, where she continued to dazzle her frequent guests and write rigorous book reviews. Of Hitler, she said, in 2000, "I was fond of him. Very, very fond...
WHALE RIDER. The Whangara people of New Zealand search for a new tribal leader to follow in the legacy of their ancestor Paikea, who was once saved from drowning by riding on the back of a whale. The would-be heir to the title of chief dies during birth, while his twin sister, Pai, survives. A natural leader, Pai grows up striving to overcome the odds of gender oppression in her tribe and engages in a quest for the title of chief. The performance is moving and well acted, although meanings of some tribal references are lost on Western audiences...
...upcoming Farrelly brothers' flick The Ringer, about a guy who pretends to be retarded so he can enter the Special Olympics. If that doesn't make you want to give up on Western culture, consider ASHTON KUTCHER, host of the MTV prank show Punk'd and Knoxville's heir aberrant. Not only is Kutcher a gossip-page staple thanks to his dalliance with Demi Moore, but he is also morphing into a legitimate thespian (stop that giggling!). He has half a dozen movies on the way, including The Woods, from Signs auteur M. Night Shyamalan. Rumors even have him starring...
...most feared men in Iraq--responsible for untold numbers of maimings, jailings and murders and, in the case of Uday, rapes as well. The brothers never outgrew their mutual contempt. Qusay loathed Uday's drunken rampages and reprobate lifestyle; Uday railed to friends that Qusay, Saddam's chosen heir, conspired to marginalize him after a 1996 assassination attempt left him crippled...
...Takizawa embodies that casual creativity. Born in 1960, Issey Miyake's heir apparent has overseen rarefied collections with names like Pressed, Shade and Smoothed Edges. But even as he was earning accolades from the jet set, Takizawa says he was drawing his truest inspiration from a little swatch of antique denim fashioned during California's Gold Rush. "For people of my generation in Japan, denim represented freedom and individuality," says Takizawa. With more younger buyers crowding his store, Takizawa decided it was time to debut this most plebeian of fabrics on the runway. The loosely tailored jeans that resulted from...