Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dusty lane, where lines of limousines deposited their elegant passengers. As the silent movie era gave way to the talkies, and Hollywood's business and glamour grew proportionately, the residences of its stars became more lavish too. There was the Hollywood Hotel, where Rudolph Valentino married Actress Jean Acker and spent his honeymoon. The Garden of Allah, which opened with an 18-hour party, was a haven for writers including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker...
...occasionally, as the evening traffic-prostitutes and pimps, bedraggled mental cases and loiterers-begins to saunter up the boulevard, one can sense something of old Hollywood. In front of the Chinese Theater, a knot of tourists may be gathered, staring at the imprint of Jean Harlow's heels in the cement, TO SID: IN SINCERE APPRECIATION: JEAN HARLOW: SEPT...
...Basically, she was representing a government which claimed to support human rights, but she realized that others didn't do much to carry out these instructions," explains Jean-Christopher Oberg, a Swedish diplomat now at the CFIA. "If you are used to playing games then you can accept it. If you have a certain perception, conviction, and realize that colleagues are doing the very opposite, it's traumatic." Swift, he says is switching to the consular side of the foreign service because "She doesn't want to be fooled again--she doesn't want to be in a position...
...leaves his mistress, played by Claudia Cardinale, is a mystical trek through the Peruvian jungle that took four calamitous years out of Director Herzog's life and won him the best director prize. The official competition also boasted new films from Michelangelo Antonioni, Jerzy Sko-limowski and Jean-Luc Godard. Antonioni's Identification of a Woman is hypnotic and erotic, and it earned him the festival's special 35th-anniversary citation. The screenplay prize went to Skoli-mowski for Moonlighting, about four Poles in London building a new home for their boss back in Poland. With...
Behind the restaurant's success is its inventive chef-owner, Jean Banchet, 41. Stocky, with brown curly hair and square beard, he looks like a scaled-down version of Luciano Pavarotti and has the artistic temperament to match. Banchet was trained in the great restaurants of France, including that of Paul Bocuse, the high priest of la nouvelle cuisine. He commands his array of convection ovens, cannibal-size stockpots and giant food processors with the same authority that Sir Georg Solti displays when conducting the Chicago Symphony. "It's like an orchestra," Banchet explains, "where every piece must...