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...Robert S. Kaplan, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development...
...wore parachute pants. Wisely, Usher--or his handlers--hewed a little more classically when choosing icons for him to be photographed as for his March 5 Showtime special. Here the 26-year-old channels dapper Fred Astaire, "an elegant, graceful song-and-dance man," Usher says. He also donned Marvin Gaye's white cap--a sentimental favorite from "growing up hearing What's Going On at cookouts," he says--as well as wardrobes inspired by a young Jackson, James Brown and Miles Davis. Usher's next chance to get decked out will be at the Grammys, where...
...equipment and coffins. Fire fighters from Greece and forensic specialists from Germany and Britain rushed to the devastated areas. Thousands of Italians offered to adopt children orphaned by the tragedy and several Italian towns canceled their New Year's Eve fireworks and donated the money saved to the victims. Marvin Gerdel, 7, from Halver, Germany, went door-to-door with his mother asking for donations and raised $85. "I could not join my friends in the snowball fight," he said, "because this was more important...
...story focuses on the division’s nameless sergeant—played by a tough as nails Lee Marvin, in what is generally recognized as his finest performance—and four of his privates, who include the former Jedi Knight Mark Hamill, as they struggle to make it through every battle while anonymous reinforcements die beside them just as suddenly and quickly as they appear. The movie is a tale of war as a journey of neither glory nor honor, but rather of survival. Instead of to heroism, the soldiers aspire—as Fuller himself put it?...
However, this movie has been a long time coming. First proposed in 1959 as a big-budget feature film starring John Wayne in the Lee Marvin role, Fuller pulled the plug on the project due to an understandable suspicion that his vision would be subsumed by the Duke’s blindly patriotic all-American identity. From there, he put the idea on hold for 20 years until he set off to film it independently...