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Vincent Delerm cuts an unlikely figure for a pop star, especially a French one. There's no trace of Johnny Hallyday's leathery ostentation, no hint of the designer brooding of a Jean Michel Jarre. With his self-cut thatch of prematurely graying hair, the 28-year-old Delerm prefers casual clothes and tennis shoes, and professes to have neither a computer nor an e-mail address. Though he doesn't dress the part, Delerm can still pull in the crowds. Last month, he played a sold-out five-night stand at the famed Olympia concert hall in Paris...
...beautifully on film for ages; Japan's master of anime won an Oscar for his rapturous Spirited Away. Now he adapts a novel by Diana Wynne Jones about Sophie (voiced by Emily Mortimer), a Cinderella type who, under a witch's spell, instantly becomes a 90-year-old crone (Jean Simmons) and takes residence in the portable home of the birdman Howl (Christian Bale, speaking in Clint Eastwood's gruff whisper...
...actually no villa) offers one of the most romantic walks in Europe. It winds through luxuriant wooded paths, natural grottoes and ancient ruins, and leads to a spectacular 120-m waterfall. The landscape, featuring 2nd century B.C. architecture, inspired such 17th and 18th century artists as Nicolas Poussin and Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and became a must-see stop on the Grand Tour. Later, Villa Gregoriana was admired as much for its role in averting floods as for its natural beauty. The flood-prone Aniene River washed away a good part of inhabited Tivoli in 1826, so Pope Gregory...
...literary agent, who is the primary cook in his two-income, two-commute, three-child household, a job that grew weightier a few years ago when his family moved from Manhattan--where takeout was an easy option--to South Orange, N.J. Stoloff has been cooking his way through Jean-Georges: Cooking at Home with a Four-Star Chef. On his lunch break he scours New York City for ingredients like the smoked paprika needed for a chickpea dish he recently made. Stoloff's strategy is to stock a great pantry--with items like homemade salsas and tomato sauce...
...female audience, now went after the male market, valuing impact over nuance, the gross over the gracious. If Merchant-Ivory wanted the old genres, they could have them for free. So they ransacked your auntie's library for stories by Henry James (The Bostonians, The Europeans, The Golden Bowl), Jean Rhys (Quartet) and, most sympathetically, E.M. Forster (A Room With a View, Maurice, Howards...