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...applying his soccer management style to the workers in the company?which is to say, never be too confident when things are going well or too demoralized when they're not. That cautiousness at home, combined with Diego's easygoing joviality abroad, has made the brand as popular with Hollywood A listers as it is with Greenwich, Conn., housewives...
...Salvatore Ferragamo had his own shop, selling shoes to the locals in Bonito, Italy. The 11th of 14 children, Ferragamo had always dreamed of creating the perfect shoe. He traveled to Boston, where he joined his brother working at a footwear company, before hitting Hollywood in the 1920s and opening the Hollywood Boot Shop. There his cowboy boots and Roman sandals were often used on movie sets, and soon celebrities came calling for custom orders. But it wasn't until 1936, when the use of leather and steel was restricted in Italy, that genius really struck. Desperate to replace...
...Leave it to Clooney, winner of the night?s first award, to address the question whether Hollywood was out of touch. He said that movie industry had addressed questions of civil rights and AIDS when the rest of America was afraid of them. ?I?m proud to be part of this Academy,? he said as the applause cresecendoed, ?proud to be part of the community, and proud to be out of touch.? He exited to cheers. If there were four strong men nearby, he would have been carried on their shoulders...
...Clooney is too big a star to consider it, but already Hollywood is thinking aloud-and the thoughts must have percolated further after his performance last night as a winner, a stud emblem and a defender of liberal values-George Clooney for Best Supporting Actor? Maybe. George Clooney for President-yeah...
...Robert Altman has a youthful heart. Literally. While accepting an honorary Oscar, the 81-year-old director disclosed that he had had a heart transplant a decade ago, and received the organ of a woman in her 30s. Altman said he figured that gave him 40 more years in Hollywood. Someone should break it to the guy that in this town, a woman in her 40s is already over the hill...