Word: houndstooth
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...ends of every spectrum. In a Fu Manchu mustache, Namath played Elvis Presley to Staubach's Pat Boone. But they came to be stuffed and mounted together and cried along with Simpson during the inductions at Canton, Ohio. As Namath searched the sky for a hangdog man in a houndstooth hat, the late Alabama coach Bear Bryant, he also shared the honors with Pete Rozelle, a football commissioner who once insisted Joe quit the saloon business. For some such mischief never revealed, Bryant kicked Namath off Alabama's team for the last game of the 1963 season and the Sugar...
...head upstairs to buy a Libertine shirt for Gela's husband, Duran Duran bassist John Taylor. I spot a houndstooth coat with horse prints that I think would look particularly good while performing Wild Boys. The guy working at the store thinks it's too small for Taylor, so Gela passes on it. She does, however, compliment my eye--the first time that has ever happened when I wasn't playing softball...
...Galella took his famous faces as he found them. From him we learn that Sophia Loren manages to remain majestic even when she's just sitting around an airport, but that Richard Burton was scuffed and dented even on his good days. We learn that Burt Reynolds in a houndstooth, bell-bottom leisure suit is a remarkable sight, especially since you just know that Reynolds thought the outfit was the last word in suave. Anyone who tells you they don't enjoy the thought that wealth and fame are no defense against cluelessness is lying...
...wasn't for that damn Czech class you signed up for on Tuesday afternoon, you might have been privy to the winter beach in Sever Quad. How free it would have felt to don a houndstooth check bikini in winter and beg disgusted onlookers to rub sun tan lotion on your back. Oh, to be scum in Harvard Yard on a Tuesday afternoon...
Michael Corrente, writer and director of the new black and white independent film, "Federal Hill," sits over coffee at Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square Dressed in a sharp houndstooth jacket, with the dark hair closely cropped, he speaks confidently to The Crimson about his debut film...