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...Illinois Senator is likely to make one public appearance during his time in Hawaii: at a rally on Magic Island, a park peninsula between Honolulu and Waikiki, according to the Honolulu Advertiser. He has previously said he'd like to give a speech at Punchbowl National Cemetery, where his grandfather, Stanley Dunham, a World War II veteran, is interred, though the campaign hasn't disclosed yet if he will do so on this trip...
Once confined to large, lavish spaces, chandeliers were traditionally all about opulence, symbols of success hanging overhead in visions of crystal, gold and silver. Today's designs reflect more surprising and eclectic ideas - but in their whimsical twinkling, there's still a nod to the old magic. Here are three very different takes on the grande dame of extravagant lighting...
...finding it hard to make the transition to mainstream features. Occasionally, established filmmakers will nurture protégés. To is producing medium-budget movies from editor and director Law Wing-cheong and screenwriter-director Yau Nai-hoi. Also nurturing talent is prolific filmmaker Eric Tsang, who produced Magic Boy, a vibrant 2007 love-triangle pic from second-time feature director Adam Wong, and Heiward Mak's recent debut High Noon, a drama of troubled youth shot with arresting flair...
...Lace Reader By Brunonia Barry; out July 29 If you can sign off on the idea that the women of the Whitney family of Salem, Mass., can see the future in pieces of lace, you will enjoy this long but richly imagined saga of passion, suspense and magic. If not, we predict you will reread Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca instead...
...President has a baby." The culture is being transformed by a charismatic young leader. (Everyone is watching Jackie Kennedy on TV giving tours of the White House.) It sounds timely, given the Obama candidacy, but in Don's world, Camelot is less about hope than about anxiety, not a magic kingdom but an invading force. Even the return of space hero John Glenn annoys Don's boss, Roger Sterling (John Slattery), a WW II vet. "I'd like ticker tape for pulling out of my driveway and going around the block three times," he grumbles. "It's not like people...