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...Brasserie in the basement of the Seagram building--a modernist icon--they had to contend with a real client. "We were interested in the social aspects of dining--the restaurant culture," says Diller. The restaurateur was more interested in how many tables would fit. But they seemed to find a meeting place. The restaurant--with videos above the bar broadcasting the entrance of patrons, and liquor bottles suspended behind frosted glass like fruit in Jell-O--is generating buzz. So while the duo, who have done scant building before, aren't seeking more interiors work, it's clear they will...
...bestow upon itself a patina of credibility. New York City's Foreign Press Association is among the latter. "It's a pity that they get all the acclaim for being the foreign press association," says the New York group's director, Suzanne Adams. The remedy: a separate celebfest, the Icon Awards, set to debut in New York next year. The group will hand out statues in the fields of movies, television, music, fashion, theater and the Internet. While the Golden Globes may get coverage for being the biggest party of the year, the New York association feels it will distinguish...
...most renowned friendships in TV. Having won an Oscar nomination (Ordinary People) and tried some unsuccessful series (e.g., New York News) since signing off as The Mary Tyler Moore Show's Richards in 1977, Moore two years ago began shopping around the idea of reviving the working-woman icon and her eccentric best pal, Rhoda Morgenstern (Valerie Harper). Moore admits she once would have felt uncomfortable trying to re-create her 1970s success. "But then," Moore says, "I began to get more and more parts that fulfilled my need to do daring roles"--see her brilliant turn...
Owners of used books can advertise on Limespot.com. When students use the site's database to search for the textbooks they need, an additional icon will appear if a used version is for sale by another student...
...only when she was refused a booking at Constitution Hall, the headquarters of the D.A.R., that Anderson, a singer of classical music, opera and spirituals, burst into the national consciousness. By the time she died in 1993, at 96, the baby contralto had become a national icon. Alas, Keiler's book is so exhaustive that it is exhausting, likely to wear out everyone but serious students of music...