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Rebecca Romijn, a swimsuit model who has taken over as host of MTV's House of Style after several high-fashion models failed at the job, says the new, odder-looking models aren't going to become famous. "Women don't want to look like the women who are now in fashion magazines," she says. "That's because the fashionistas call the shots, and they're not in tune with what America wants. They want to be edgy and progressive." But the new models are probably what fashion models should look like--all freaky and gawky and striking, yet elegant...
...plays. For a lot of us it also means dealing with oddball Uncle Bob and other assorted weird relatives. The A.R.T., inspired by this phenomena, presents The Marriage of Bette and Boo at the Hasty Pudding Theatre. With any luck, youll find a few characters at least a little odder than your parents. 8 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 2 and 8 p.m.; Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday, 2 p.m. Hasty Pudding Theatre, 10 Holyoke...
JIMMY BUFFETT'S memoir, A Pirate Looks at 50, hit the No. 1 spot on the New York Times best-seller list. He's one of only six authors to have had books at the top of both the fiction and nonfiction lists. Even odder, one of each of the other authors' books seems to have an odd resonance with a Buffett album...
Couture season in Paris: that bizarre time of year when the world's most beautiful women parade around in the world's most impeccably tailored, insanely expensive and unusual clothes. Certainly it doesn't get much odder than at the house of 28-year-old Alexander McQueen, Givenchy. His show, held at a Parisian medical school festooned with swaths of red velvet and caged ravens, had been plagued by rumors that it would feature real human bones and teeth. Not so. The handlike skeletons under the lace mantilla were made of resin. The swan around SHALOM HARLOW'S neck, right...
Other acquaintances were aware of some of the group's odder beliefs. A man who worked with Higher Source for more than six years on several computer projects discussed the imminent coming of the Hale-Bopp comet with them. "They didn't know, but they felt it could be something other than a comet--that maybe it was a spaceship coming to collect them," the acquaintance says. He says he even joked with them about Jonestown once, but got little reaction. This man last heard from the group just a few weeks ago; they wanted help setting up some...