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...guess is that, like any smart entrepreneurs, the people behind these shows wanted to stoke free publicity on the news pages and talk shows. In that case, mission accomplished. Death of a President- which was impishly acronymed in the TIFF press material as D.O.A.P. (go on, say it out loud) - quickly became the festival's hottest ticket. "Publicists representing D.O.A.P seem to spend all their time rebuffing pleas for tickets," wrote Barbara Vancheri in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "As one said, 'It's like being the big-breasted blond woman on the beach in a tiny bikini,' and everyone wants...
...never occurred to anybody in the basement of the Louvre that morning that Sheetal Mafatlal, 33, was one of India's biggest luxury dealmakers. Although Mafatlal could easily afford to scoop up gowns by the gross, she wasn't shopping for herself. She was on a fact-finding mission as a prelude to opening the first Valentino store in India, in partnership with Valentino Fashion Group SpA, in New Delhi's five-star Shangri-La hotel. Valentino is the first of several Western designers introduced into India by MLP (Mafatlal Luxury Private), the company Mafatlal heads...
FUTURESEX/ LOVESOUNDS JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE ON HIS SECOND solo album, Timberlake has declared it his mission to bring sexy back. Never mind that this presumes sexy left--or that an adjective can be rescued. What matters is that he goes about his task with the energy, hooks and heavy breathing expected of someone aiming to be pop's seducer in chief. SexyBack is a grinding, stuttering classic that nods at Prince without ripping him off, while Lovestoned/ I Think She Knows (Interlude) and What Goes Around .../ ... Comes Around (Interlude) are the rare ballads that achieve emotional tension without key-changing histrionics...
...same time rebuild his company. Lutnick was taking his son to school for his first day of kindergarten when the planes hit the World Trade Center, where Cantor Fitzgerald occupied floors 101 and 103-105 of the North Tower. Since that day, he says he's made it his mission to help the victims' families. "I have personally grown very close to and very connected with 658 families who have a broken heart just like I do," he told TIME. "They are always a part of my life...
...near the airport that killed five people. And it came at the end of a week of fierce clashes in the south; the strength of Taliban resistance has surprised NATO commanders, who on Thursday called on member states to send a further 2,000 troops to reinforce its counterinsurgency mission in the Taliban's heartland...