Word: journalists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beene has managed to stay in business through the support of intensely devoted clients who care little about looking like someone else. Journalist Amy Fine Collins, Beene's muse, has worn his clothes exclusively for the past 10 years because the design is "so strong, so graphic, so precise." Beene dresses women of means but not, as he puts it, "the bonbon and Pekingese type...
...trouble in her eyes. They reassign her to the Pentagon, where Lewinsky meets Linda Tripp, a former Bush employee. Lewinsky brags to Tripp of her attempts to win the President's affection. Tripp is friends with Lucianne Goldberg, a New York literary agent who once posed as a journalist to spy for Richard Nixon. Goldberg has an idea: get Lewinsky to fantasize a bit further, put the confessions on tape and get revenge, once and for all, on Clinton and the Democrats. Lewinsky agrees to the plan and reads the scripted confessions over the phone. Tripp makes the tapes...
...correcting our errors," as he once put it, when it suits his purposes. National unity is a precious component of his authority, and so he will tack when necessary to preserve it. "Fidel wants to authorize what people are already doing spontaneously," says Raul Rivero, a poet and independent journalist. It's like the dollar. When the black market in American currency grew too strong, Castro co-opted it by making greenbacks legal tender. "If Cuba is turning back to religion," he says, "Fidel will in effect sanctify...
Totenburg is not the only journalist with whom Simpson has had disagreements...
...canny and generally successful appeal to the youth market, this film streamlines Henry James's notoriously dense novel, bringing its melodramatic and erotic undertones to the forefront. A well-bred but dowerless English girl (Helena Bonham-Carter), secretly engaged to an equally impecunious journalist (Linus Roache), persuades her lover to court a young American heiress dying of TB (Alison Elliott). The plot thickens as the three take a pleasure trip to Venice. The scenes in Italy are lovely, and the three stars give superb performances--esp. Bonham-Carter, who brilliantly captures the complexities of her character. --Lynn...