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...Although lots of Shanghai's historic tree-lined neighborhoods were torn down in the go-go '90s, many graceful mansions remain, especially in the old French Concession. The city's funkiest bars and restaurants crowd this area, some in renovated colonial villas. True, there's been plenty of recent buzz about Xintiandi, a Disneyfied version of Ye Olde Shanghai that houses the city's poshest restaurants and bars in gutted old buildings. But Xintiandi feels like a sleight-of-hand: an insta-version of Shanghai that betrays little of the city's real history. Avoid it. Instead experience real colonial...
...star Bob Crane (embodied here with scary blandness by Greg Kinnear) was a sex addict who enjoyed having his erotic acts recorded on video by a technician (Willem Dafoe) who often joined Crane in four-way frolics. As a cut-rate American satyr, Crane was Hugh Hefner without the mansion or the moves. And Paul Schrader's clinical docu-comedy is as grim as an autopsy after an electrocution...
...lock on this year's election for Maryland Governor. When Townsend's aunt Eunice Kennedy Shriver threw her a $10-a-head fund raiser last year, traffic backed up for more than a mile, as 5,000 people clamored for an afternoon of Kennedy glamour. And the Governor's mansion was seen as a way station: it was just a matter of time, the pundits were saying, until Bobby Kennedy's eldest landed a spot on a national ticket...
...much for that Governor's Mansion in the Window? Got a couple extra million dollars hanging around that you just don't know what to do with? Try running for governor - these days, it's one of the fastest and most efficient money-burning activity on earth. This year, candidates across the country are spending record amounts of cash (sometimes double or triple what's been seen before) on extremely tight races. Wealthy donors are giving them a helping hand, much to the chagrin of voters, who are now stuck watching endless campaign commercials and praying for November...
...Beverly Hills, to having complete collections for men, women and boys, as well as his own accessories and fragrances. More firsts followed. In 1983 he introduced a collection of designer sheets and other home furnishings. In 1986 he opened the $14 million New York City flagship in the Rhinelander mansion on Madison Avenue and filled it with antiques. To critics who bemoaned the extravagance, Lauren effectively said, "It's the marketing, stupid." Now much of the real estate on upper Madison Avenue is devoted to similar showplaces in which designer after designer presents the lifestyle he or she is trying...