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...David Pecker, the former president and CEO of Hachette Filipacchi, George's publisher, recalls that after the 1992 election, Kennedy "became fascinated with the convergence of politics and pop culture," which was the organizing principle of George. Sporting Cindy Crawford on its first cover, George sought to draw celebrity-mad readers to politics, if not always for the most serious reasons--for instance, it ran a beefcake photo of a strategically bared Kennedy in September 1997. George profiled entertainers; it gave bylines to headline-grabbing political figures like Alfonse D'Amato; it asked Claire Danes and Denis Leary what they...
...EXAMPLES] The Nanny's Sylvia Fine (Renee Taylor) Seinfeld's Helen Seinfeld (Liz Sheridan) Mad About You's Sylvia Buchman (Cynthia Harris...
...would buy a used car--and almost from the outset you agree with Faraday that he and his kin are surely up to something distinctly antisocial. One-two-three, Faraday acquires the evidence suggesting that Oliver has taken over another man's identity and is almost certainly a quietly mad bomber. The cautionary notes struck by Faraday's new girlfriend (Hope Davis) and old FBI friend (Robert Gossett) seem purely conventional and very likely a signal that they're not going to survive to the end of the movie...
...three years for one movie? Were they mad? With Kubrick's famous obsession for perfection, the 18-week shoot turned into 52 weeks over 15 months. Cruise, Hollywood's $20 million man, took himself out of the game at the height of his career, accepted a sizable pay cut, moved his family to England, put himself through workdays that ran 12 to 16 hours and, in the process, developed an ulcer...
...questing--and this 1991 romance (just released in the States) is the most lustrous showcase for her haggard purity. The plot groans with lower-depths anomie: Michele, a painter who is half blind, camps out on Paris' Pont-Neuf with Alex, a fire eater who is more than half mad. But Carax vitalizes the film with images that sparkle, smolder, catch fire; he might be offering Michele a last visual banquet before her eyes close forever. Binoche's beauty is, naturally, the main course. One watches her ferocity, the hard-won smile and moist eyes, with studious rapture...