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DIED. LESLIE FIEDLER, 85, provocative literary and cultural critic, best known for the 1960 book Love and Death in the American Novel, which examined the psychological undercurrents, including the powerful, even homoerotic, bonds between male characters, and the exclusion of women, in the works of Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain and others; in Buffalo, N.Y. Fiedler wrote hundreds of essays, short stories and poems and helped inspire acceptance of American--as opposed to mostly British--literature in university English departments...
DIED. GEORGE BARRIE, 90, artistic former owner and CEO of Faberge who pioneered the use of celebrities in marketing, famously employing Joe Namath, Farrah Fawcett and Margaux Hemingway to promote perfume and hair-care products; in Aventura, Fla. He created the best-selling scent Brut and also co-wrote songs with Sammy Cahn, two of which were nominated for Academy Awards...
...BreathOf Stale Air Fashion has so much to love - the glamour, the beauty, the clothes. And so much to hate - the glamour, the beauty, the clothes. It's not surprising that the industry teems with disgruntled staffers, many of whom hope one day to get their revenge. Wayne Hemingway, designer of the now- defunct cult label Red or Dead, gets his chance to diss the London fashion scene this month, when Britain's Channel 4 begins airing his series, Revolt in Fashion. Like most fashion documentaries, it tells us what we already knew: that the business is less about...
McDonald, who was known for his selflessness, his quiet leadership, and his remarkable resemblance to both Santa Claus and Ernest Hemingway, announced his resignation on September...
...Life of Pi is a bit overballasted by these nautical chapters. "The worst pair of opposites, boredom and terror," writes Martel, stalk Pi throughout his ordeal; inevitably, boredom leaks into his story. Hemingway had his old man stay on the sea for a metaphorically appropriate three days; Pi floats...