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...19th century housewife with delusions of grand passions, the answer is not far enough before she is forced onto her treadmill of self-destruction. This claustrophobic production can knock the air out of you. But when Hedda declares, "I can do what I want, and that is never going to change," there is a thrill in seeing an individual pitted so powerfully against the limitations of her age - and the feline grace of an actress at full stretch. That's worth standing...
...vehement about civic duty and personal correctness. Once, when I started talking about winning a ski race, she said to me, 'Shrink it down'--meaning my head. That was one of her expressions. John was more of a rebellious adolescent than I was. He had some real knock-down, drag-outs with our father. But he never rebelled against what Mom taught...
EDWARDS: Never. You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose. On the other hand, I take great strength from the gifts I got from my relationship with my son, as I know Teresa does both from her relationship with her sister and her relationship with her first husband...
...nothing new about copying in the fashion business, of course. Product ideas have always trickled down from the high-end runways to the mass market. In the past, designers often took pride in their work being copied. But that was before counterfeiting became a multibillion-dollar, multinational business. Knock-off luxury products--particularly the bogus designer bags coming out of China, where the majority of them originate--have become a mortal threat. "Ten years ago we said it wasn't a problem, that it was even proof of our success," says Marc-Antoine Jamet, president of France's anti-counterfeiting...
...fakes sell for less in the bazaars of China--although some make their way to U.S. street stalls. Hong Kong residents stock up on fakes across the border, at Shenzhen's multi-story mall, where fluorescent-lit shops sell pirated Chinese-made DVD players, sneakers and top-quality knock-offs of the latest brand-name bags...