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...Yesterday a film producer called me. He wanted to make a movie of my life," Cavalli reveals as he dumps several international cell phones, an iPod and a few loose Cohiba and Montecristo cigars out of a python tote. The designer's rags-to-riches tale is certainly fit for the big screen: a high school dropout with a serious stutter and an impoverished background makes millions of dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roberto Cavalli': Printed Matter | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...hotel. She also loves the cigars, which are, she concedes, nothing but excessive phallic symbols to be smoked with high-roller abandon. But what Zhu likes best are the sexy, well-honed bodies out on the disco floor. "The pickings are best right here," Zhu says, exhaling puffs of Montecristo smoke. "Which one shall I take home tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Works Hard for the Money | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...fact, the Guatemalan military and right-wing paramilitary forces aligned with it have been responsible for the great majority of civilian deaths in the country. The military continues its brutal terrorizing of Indian villages in several provinces. Last November, the government bombed the villages of Montecristo and Bulaj, destroying 85 homes. Members of the Special Forces--a right-wing security force--then massacred at least 36 people. In the face of this and other such well-documented atrocities, the U.S. continues to support Rios Montt, the new Guatemalan President, and states that future human rights improvement is contingent upon...

Author: By Ann Park, | Title: Reagan's Double Standard on Human Rights | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

...current price: $18,311). Moro every now and then sends the Chrysler chairman a few boxes of the jumbo-sized, 7¼-in. Imperial cigars (cost: $46.25 a box). But Iacocca has not changed his taste in cigars even for the extra publicity. His longtime favorite brand is Cuban Montecristo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Behind the CIgar | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...Sundays the couple often goes out for dinner, and after the meal Byrd may light up a cigar (a Montecristo or a La Corona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Byrd of West Virginia: Fiddler in the Senate | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

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