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That old adage "Necessity is the mother of invention" might be what motivated director Sofia Coppola to venture into Louis Vuitton's workshop in Asnières, a suburb of Paris, looking for the perfect handbag. "I couldn't find one I liked, so I was going to custom-order one from Vuitton," says Coppola. One thing led to another, and she found herself designing a capsule collection of handbags and shoes for the French luxury house. The line includes a simple shoulder bag, above, 1940s-inspired wedge sandals and an evening clutch trimmed in gold piping and topped off with...
...blame on the weather,†said Pollak, a native of San Antonio, Texas. “The wind was blowing really hard. It went from rain to sun to rain and sun and everything in between. It was a constant battle with Mother Nature. I started poorly and ended poorly, which really destroyed my rounds.†As a team, Harvard led the field in par-3, 4, and 5 scoring, averaging 3.32 shots on par-3s, 4.32 on par-4s, and an even 5.00 on par-5s. Shuman and Christensen tied for second in number...
...invites general sympathy and approbation, is increasingly plagued by a mysterious voice.In Act Two, the disembodied voice finally crashes through Prior’s bedroom ceiling in the form of an angel, played by Isabel Q. Carey ’12. Carey—who also plays the Mormon Mother and Prior’s Nurse—knows precisely how to hold her head to convey a sense of otherworldly detachment and disdain for the world necessary to her part. She also gracefully pulls off swinging precariously through the air and dangling in space on pulleys with considerable aplomb...
...Australia, and now the New York City Department of Health, are driving home the message that smoking is bad for your health. In a new, startling video created Down Under and recently exported to the Big Apple, a 4-year-old is left alone in a crowd by his mother. At the end of the ad, the audience is told, "If this is how your child feels after losing you for a minute, just imagine if they lost you for life. Quit smoking today...
Wondering how they got that tiny actor to cry so convincingly on cue? Well, his mother actually did abandon him in a crowd and he really did think he was lost. The people walking past him are extras, and his tears are real. Heartless? Maybe. Forced method acting? Sure. The admakers "went to incredible lengths to make this as good of an experience as possible," says Jenna Mandel-Ricci, of the New York City Health Department's Tobacco Control Bureau. She points out that the commercial was filmed in one take - meaning the little boy went through the trauma...