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...shopping trip, and a stifled bequest. But by the time Smith's story is over it is clear that On Beauty is not just an homage but a work of real originality. Smith has a virtuoso talent for capturing dialect, which makes her dialogue almost audible. Belsey's son Levi, a mixed-race child of privilege who takes a weekend job hustling knockoff handbags with Haitian immigrants on the streets of Boston, speaks perfect faux Brooklyn: "This ain't like workin' the counter at CVS! You hustling, man ... That's street." Belsey's southern teaching assistant Smith J. Miller spends...
...With reporting by Jeremy Caplan and Carolina A. Miranda/New York; Nathan Thornburgh/Baton Rouge; Levi Clark/Edmond; Massimo Calabresi and Mark Thompson/Washington
Jockey-size Levi Leipheimer, 31, the Montana-born boss of Germany's team Gerolsteiner, makes up with precision riding what he lacks in raw talent. Before each stage, he probes his bike like a quality-control engineer, obsessing over the height and angle of the saddle, its distance from the handlebars. He can drive the tech guys crazy. "I've seen him argue for 15 minutes about a difference of one and a half millimeters," says Gerolsteiner spokesman Jörg Grünefeld. Leipheimer's approach is clearly working; he reached fifth place entering the Tour's final week...
...feel more sexy, more virile, and it helps me get into character," says Ford Model Philip Sturgeon, who has appeared, whiskers bristling, in magazine layouts and ad campaigns for Levi's and Macy's California. In the words of Wilhelmina Artists' Agent Christopher Mertz, "Now it's a commodity, it's a look the clients can bank on." Says New York Casting Director Billy Serow: "A couple of years ago, it was the James Garner-Mariette Hartley look. Today, if you're dealing with anything hip, Miami Vice is the prototype...
...This is a new creative space," says Tom Mazza, president of the Los Angeles start-up, which conceives and plots shows with ad clients in mind and pitches the resulting "advertainment" to the networks. Mazza's firm was behind the Rolaids plug in The Bernie Mac Show and brought Levi's, Crest and Mars to The Apprentice. His company also co-developed a reality show called The Treasure Hunters that NBC picked up last week-sure to be crammed with brands. "We look to marry brand messaging with individual episodes and series storytelling," he says...