Word: lee
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...show Faces of America, hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., traces the lineage of Dr. Oz and Meryl Streep, while NBC's upcoming Who Do You Think You Are?, executive-produced by Friends actress Lisa Kudrow, seeks out the dead relatives of Sarah Jessica Parker and Spike Lee. In an episode of the NBC show, Kudrow goes to Belarus to find the grave of her great-grandmother who was killed in the Holocaust and meets a family member who survived. It's fascinating, but probably only because she's a celebrity. Even ballroom dancing is interesting if there are celebrities...
There are many talented designers, but the work of Lee Alexander McQueen, who was found dead at age 40 on Feb. 11, was spectacular. Even if critics rejected a collection, they could not reject what he had put into it. It was never sloppy, lazy or cavalier. It was magnificently and precisely what he wanted. His diligence and attention to detail were stunning to witness. He was surgical. His draping skills were incredible and his construction beautiful. His work was whimsical and full of humor; it was subversive, political and incredibly sexual, but he had a seriousness about...
When I asked Lee if he would make my dress for the premiere of the Sex and the City movie, he was gracious enough to say yes. He flew to New York City on a couple of occasions to keep fitting it on me. In London, he fitted it on me again, with the same exacting precision he had about everything. Big and little. And he was just lovely. When he'd look up and smile--which he rarely did, since he was very shy--he was just so winning...
...Maybe Lee didn't follow the rules in terms of patronage and genuflecting in the right direction. He had a point of view that probably didn't always fit in. But I don't think he spent a lot of time trying to impress the right people. I think he cared a great deal about his work and was incredibly reliable in that regard...
...Lee, director of quantitative analysis at PayScale, said he believes that for the majority of Americans who don't attend elite schools, “the degree you get is a bigger influencer of your pay” than where you went to college. But if you get your giggles from Gatsby, don’t trade in the Barker Center for the Science Center just yet. Lee acknowledges that an English major from Harvard could end up making six figures—still, he insists that such a case would be an exception...