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...Kong's sacred shopping venues, with a selection of merchandise that could rival any American mall, or just about. Although the quasi-legendary, Temple Street-made Rolexes and Cartiers have virtually disappeared due to heightened controls, the dozens of stalls sell everything from T-shirts, dumplings, breathing-fresh chicken, leather-goods, perfumes and CD's. Occasionally, the wandering, by-now-confused pedestrian can stumble onto an improvised, rousing performance of traditional Chinese opera, an experience never to be forgotten. At the side of the street, uninterested in the trafficking of shoppers and bargain-hunters, locals and off-duty taxi-drivers...
...game. (Even the celebrities who have been patronizing Liberty games in Madison Square Garden--Rosie O'Donnell, Gregory Hines, Rosie Perez--get a break, paying $150 for a courtside seat that costs Spike Lee $1,000 during the Knicks season.) While the concession stands in Charlotte offer an official leather orange-and-white W.N.B.A. ball for a hefty $99, they also have a rubber...
...name of this tenacious corporation, not coincidentally, is Elvis Presley Enterprises. It controls much of the half-billion-dollar global Elvis industry, strictly limiting the world's supply of singing hound-dog dolls, Heartbreak Hotel matchboxes, leather-jacketed teddy bears and pink Cadillac key chains--not to mention the Graceland mansion in Memphis, headwaters of all things Elvis. As that city licks its lips in anticipation of the 75,000 free-spending fans who are expected for the 20th anniversary of the King's death on Aug. 16, Elvis Presley Enterprises reigns supreme as the guardian, keeper and main arbiter...
...four children, Cunanan grew up in middle-class Rancho Bernardo, Calif., a San Diego suburb. At the elite Bishop's School in La Jolla, he was popular and a little outrageous. Openly gay as a teenager, he once showed up at a school function in a red patent-leather jumpsuit that he said was a gift from his much older date...
BODY BELTS BEGONE! Leather support belts worn by weight lifters may be of little value. Measured electronically, stress on the spine is the same among men who do or don't wear belts...