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Along with his wife Eileen, Ford revolutionized the industry when he began negotiating lucrative contracts for models to represent certain brands exclusively; the first such agreement was between Lauren Hutton and Revlon in 1974. In doing so, he demanded higher fees and made many of his clients household names, including Christie Brinkley and Brooke Shields...
...competition safety practices. The push for legislation comes after two cheerleading fatalities in the state. In 2005, Ashley Burns, a 14-year-old from Medford, Mass., died after being thrown into the air and landing on her stomach, causing her spleen to rupture. Another Massachusetts athlete, 20-year-old Lauren Chang, died in April, after she was accidentally kicked in the chest during a cheerleading competition...
...process, they've become tabloid stars. In one episode Lauren asks Whitney if she went out last night, and Whitney says, "No, actually, I took the night off." It's a figure of speech, but not entirely: their social lives are their jobs. (The tabs unearthed a contract in which Audrina was paid $10,000 to go to a nightclub for two hours...
Fans can follow their story in the off-season in gossip pages, blogs and celebrity magazines. (You may well know them from those even if you've never watched the show.) Thus when a rumor circulated that Lauren and a boyfriend had made a sex tape, it played in the gossip sheets, then came up in Season 3, when she accused Heidi of helping spread the dirt...
...illusion is broken only when the subjects open their mouths; their dialogue is, to be tactful, minimalist. (Lauren's conversation with an ex-boyfriend: "I told you I'd be your friend again eventually. I just couldn't do it at first." "It's just hard to get over." "I know." And--scene!) The Hills is like a music video, an art-directed distillation of emotion that would only be ruined by too many words. It's life, if you were young, lucky and beautiful and had your own cinematographer and sound-track curator. If this is fake, maybe reality...