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...approached the hotel with Roger and Chaz Ebert, we heard the enthusiastic screams of hundreds of onlookers, as Beyoncé Knowles and Jamie Foxx, two of the film's stars, strode down a carpeted sidewalk. Besides Foxx and Beyoncé, most of the principal cast lent their luster to the evening. Anika Noni Rose, a 2004 Tony winner for Caroline, or Change, was brought up on stage, as were Jennifer Hudson from American Idol and star-of-the-future Keith Robinson (who got his chance when negotiations with R&B singer Usher broke down). Eddie Murphy couldn't make...
...Yunupingu's ceiling is not unlike Aboriginal art itself: a universe of independent but interconnecting movements, each adding luster to the other. With the June 23 opening of the MQB, President Chirac's $278-million monument to non-Western cultures next to the Eiffel Tower on the Seine, the stars would seem to be aligned for Aboriginal art. Yunupingu was one of eight indigenous Australian artists invited to create work for the museum-not to hang on its walls, but rather to be woven through the fabric of Jean Nouvel's visionary architecture. For indigenous art curators Hetti Perkins...
...that the Hearst people went to Lord Foster--the peerage came in 1999--for years the man Asian banking executives and Arab sheiks have pursued for the luster of Big Architecture. When you visit his firm's vast London offices you understand what it must have been like to await an audience with the doge in 16th century Venice. Clients and would-be clients from around the world crisscross the reception area clutching their portfolios and chattering in Italian and Russian. The British press says his profits have been in decline. He even lost a commission last year...
MUTUAL FUNDS WITH LUSTER Gold funds (shown here in annualized returns) have been on a tear for the past few years. How long will...
...didn't know Bettie Page existed. If she'd had even a little mainstream fame, Estes Kefauver, who chaired a Senate investigation into the movies she starred in, would surely have called her to the witness stand, to gain tabloid headlines from the exposure of Bettie's lurid luster. Instead, while her producer defended his films ("But there's no nudity!") and psychiatrists attacked them, she sat outside the hearing room for 16 hours, ignored...