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...always, cons are also great sources of news and gossip. While wandering among the rubber-suited goths and picking through the Japanese toys your intrepid reporter unearthed a few interesting items of note: Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller appeared together to provide a glimpse of the up-coming "Sin City" movie starring Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke and Jessica Alba. The filmmakers stressed how closely they stuck to Miller's original comic series, resulting in some impressive super-high contrast black and white art direction and some wincingly cornball "hardboiled" dialogue - the hallmarks of Miller's late work. Monsters of manga...
...team, led by the intrepid Chatterton, began to explore the mystery U-boat. At that depth they could stay down for just minutes at a time, so they had to work methodically, room by room, dive by dive. The wreck began gobbling them up just as methodically: the first to die was an affable hobbyist named Steve Feldman, who lost consciousness and drowned. Others didn't go as peacefully, but with each death the divers only became more determined...
Everything about D-day was dramatic--the overarching strategy, the vast mobilization, the sheer number of troops. But it's the daring boldness and intrepid courage of the men that stand out. One can read biographies of Dwight Eisenhower or watch film footage shot by John Ford, but the only way to understand D-day, the largest invasion force ever assembled, is as a battle at its smallest: that is, one soldier and one reminiscence at a time...
...sexy, spaghetti-strapped silhouette had become the uniform for all red-carpet-bound celebrities. With the introduction of handbag collections, remodeled stores and multimillion-dollar ad campaigns, Galliano has reinvented Dior, transforming it from a dowdy duty-free label into a must-have global brand--and the most intrepid creative machine in international fashion. --By Kate Betts
...addition of “Harvard graduate” to her resume wasn’t necessarily helpful in Lydon’s initial forays into the culinary world, and her senior thesis on Jane Eyre certainly didn’t make kitchen doors fly open. But the intrepid Boston native is now a successfully established professional chef. She has worked in the acclaimed Boston restaurants Radius, Truc and Chez Henri, and she was named one of Food and Wine’s ten best new chefs in the country in the summer...