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...case you were wondering, I do have a prescription for what ails America's undecided voters: If you sit down for an hour or so, really examine the issues (and I mean the issues, not George's tie or Al's makeup), you're bound to recognize glaring differences between the two candidates. Sure, we're not talking about socialism versus fascism, or Milosevic versus Kostunica. But we are talking about an important national decision, and if you really are undecided now, with less than three weeks left before you (hopefully) head to the voting booth, you've got some...
...dropped out of school at 15, he says, when two classmates tried to run him over with a car. He left Louisiana at 21 after the man behind him in line at a gay bar was struck over the head with a baseball bat. After years of applying makeup to his younger sister and misfit friends ("I figured if I could make them feel beautiful, I wouldn't feel so ugly myself"), he set out for New York City. Within a year, he did his first job for Vogue and soon attracted advocates like Tina Turner and Cindy Crawford...
...Making Faces, Aucoin devotes several pages of his new book to portraying his celebrated friends as Hollywood icons from the past: Winona Ryder as Elizabeth Taylor, Calista Flockhart as Audrey Hepburn and Martha Stewart as Veronica Lake. Yet the rest of the book shows Aucoin's makeup wizardry on women of all ages, ethnicities and body types (including a transgender friend). The goal, he insists, is to "empower women through showing them possibilities, not making judgments...
...meanest people who have ever walked the face of the earth, who live and die for the surface," he says. "But the way I see it, I have a responsibility to do the most I can do, the way I know how. Since I know how to apply makeup, that's what I do and use it as a platform...
...live-in caretaker for a little boy who, like Zachary, suffered from an autism-related disorder. He loved dresses, jewelry, feather boas, glitter makeup and other things considered "feminine." Still, his parents and I were careful not to assign a gender to his activities, as he had not yet done so himself. I only hope Zachary wasn't rushed into his decision by parents who seem to have numerous other issues of their own they need to deal with first. SARA SCHROEDER Newton, Mass...