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...first thing you should observe about the video for “Wolf Like Me”—with its combination of silent-era cinema expressionism, “Thriller”-era leather jackets, and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”-era choppy animation—is how strange and incongruous it seems; the second is how much sense that combination makes for a band whose sound rolls a barbershop quartet, a dance-floor DJ, and the Pixies into...
Francisco rocks a Columbian leather messenger bag he bought on eBay. The contents? Books, wallet, cell phone, crushed wasabi peas, and two years worth of loose change. However, his man purse repertoire also includes a larger saddlebag which he hangs on his wall at home. Not be outdone, says Perese, his older brother, a 2005 graduate of Harvard Law School, uses his fiancée’s purse...
...with a buzzer next to it marked Oakwood Books. It doesn't look like much--it's next door to a mini-mall--but behind it is an enterprise that earns in the neighborhood of $20 million annually. Its sole asset fits in a comfy chair at a red-leather-covered conference table. The asset is good-natured and at ease with himself. With his smooth Southern accent, listening to him talk is like sniffing bourbon...
...DIED. Tamara Dobson, 59, Amazonian model-actress who created one of the blaxploitation genre's most memorable women-the Corvette-driving, martial-arts-loving title character in the film Cleopatra Jones; of complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis; in Baltimore, Md. With her flashy style-huge Afro, big hats, leather-trimmed fur coats-Cleopatra was, in the words of the drug traffickers she battled, "10 miles of bad road." Before her career ebbed in the '80s, the 6-ft. 2-in. Dobson went on to appear in other films of the genre, notably the women-in-prison film Chained Heat...
DIED. Tamara Dobson, 59, Amazonian model-actress who created one of the blaxploitation genre's most memorable women--the Corvette-driving, martial-arts-loving title character in the film Cleopatra Jones; of complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis; in Baltimore, Md. With her flashy style--huge Afro, big hats, leather-trimmed fur coats--Cleopatra was, in the words of the drug traffickers she battled, "10 miles of bad road." Before her career ebbed in the '80s, the 6-ft. 2-in. Dobson went on to appear in other films of the genre, notably the women-in-prison film Chained Heat...