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...Life to Live. His not-so-muscly résumé also includes a stint on Will & Grace and a role in the upcoming film Deadly, opposite Laura Prepon. In an age of flawed superheroes, Routh and his director Bryan Singer face the tough task of updating the straitlaced all-American icon. Singer, himself at least the fourth director associated with the project, says he always intended to fill the part with a fresh face. Routh "is an extremely fine actor," says the X-Men helmer, and as a small-town Midwesterner, "he also embodies the legacy and history of this character...
...outside a Brooklyn bar, and a bunch of guys are standing around admiring the new Mustang GT. "The old one lost its buzz," says a kid circling the car, asking about its engine (eight cylinders), power (300 h.p.) and torque (315 lb.-ft.). The Mustang is an American icon, with more movie cameos, hot-rod clubs and fanzines than any other vehicle. Ford has sold more than 8 million since the car's debut in 1964. In this scene, though, nobody cared about that stuff. "Steve who?" asks a guy who never heard of McQueen or the green fastback...
Dylan first debut was in 1963 with the album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. He cemented his status as an icon with the 1965 and 1966 release of Highway 61 Revisted and Blonde on Blonde...
...months of this year. MEANWHILE IN BRITAIN? Ostalgia Calls Trabant fan Graham Goodall is seeking a new home for 40 of the 49 cars he keeps in the grounds of his home in a picturesque village in northern England. Goodall said he fell in love with the East German icon - whose engine has only five moving parts - on a 1987 visit to Berlin, and it would be a "disaster" to split up the collection. But after neighbors labeled the vehicles - which are in various states of disrepair - an "eyesore," a local court ordered them to be removed or destroyed...
Such clever marketing tactics have helped make Nike the icon for the new China. According to a recent Hill & Knowlton survey, Chinese consider Nike the Middle Kingdom's "coolest brand." Just as a new Flying Pigeon bicycle defined success when reforms began in the 1980s and a washing machine that could also scrub potatoes became the status symbol a decade later, so the Air Jordan--or any number of Nike products turned out in factories across Asia--has become the symbol of success for China's new middle class. Sales rose 66% last year, to an estimated $300 million...