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...trip to Bilbao, Spain, two years ago, Lotti was struck by the wildly spiraling metallic towers of the Guggenheim Museum. "It looked so different from everything around it," he recalls. "I wanted to do the same thing with a shoe." Eighteen months later, Nike unveiled the Air Max Specter, a slip-on sneaker with an upper sole of grooved, sinuous curves, available in the same titanium gray as the museum's exterior. The shoe became the season's No. 1 seller...
Theater director Max Stafford-Clark is no stranger to controversy. An ardent promoter of new writing through his Out Of Joint company, he brought to the stage such succès de scandale as Mark Ravenhill's 1996 hit about sex and consumerism, Shopping and F______. Even he, though, may have been taken aback by the furor that has attended his latest project: Sebastian Barry's Hinterland, a co-production between Out Of Joint, the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and London's Royal National Theatre...
...DIED. MAX PERUTZ, 87, groundbreaking molecular biologist; in Cambridge, England. Perutz and colleague John Kendrew won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for uncovering the structure of the organic molecule hemoglobin, a key to transporting oxygen and carbon dioxide through the body...
...second term three years ago. DIED. GEORGE NADER, 80, 1954 Golden Globe winner and star of 1953 cult-classic Robot Monster; in Los Angeles. Nader's soon-to-be-published book, The Perils of Paul, gives an inside look into Hollywood's gay community. DIED. MAX PERUTZ, 87, scientist who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in chemistry for mapping out the molecular structure of human hemoglobin with colleague John Kendrew; in Cambridge, England. Perutz's work laid the foundation for human genome and disease research. DIED. CLAUDE BROWN, 64, author of Manchild in the Promised Land, which closely follows...
...idealized version of real people, as seen on the Giorgio Armani catwalk, is so much more appealing. "You must create fantasy," said Giorgio Guidotti, director of communications for Max Mara, an Italian clothing company that prides itself on catering to real people as well as fashionistas. And while the idea of a firefighter is something to fantasize about, the physical reality may not be. So no job security worries for models yet. But supermodels and celebrities are another question. At least you can pretend that a nameless model really is a firefighter or a welder or a pilot...