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...long after the project was announced, Snakes On A Blog was launched - a blog devoted solely to one fan's mission to attend the Hollywood premiere of the film. Complete with a petition that can be signed by visitors and speculation that Samuel L. Jackson may just win an Oscar for Snakes as payback for being snubbed in 1994 for Pulp Fiction, it also offers quick links to Snakes trailers, songs and, of course, fan poetry. One example: "Terror slithers on Silent foe, / miles above Earth / Snakes are on the plane...
...need to cinematize this play. Oscar Wilde's 1895 comedy of mannerisms is perfect as was. Just round up a brilliant cast--Michael Redgrave, Margaret Rutherford, Joan Greenwood, Dorothy Tutin and Edith Evans will do fine--and stand back. That's what Anthony Asquith did in the 1952 film: preserved the play's blithe, aphoristic elegance. In the main pairing of lovers, Redgrave's starch ideally suits Greenwood's cello-voiced sense of sexual mischief...
Puma found success with such star athletes as Joe Namath and soccer king Pelé, who led the brand to superstardom in major arenas. Athletes such as Walt Frazier, Oscar de la Hoya, Martina Navratilova and Serena Williams followed suit, and Puma further revolutionized the category with the introduction of Velcro fasteners. Not content to stay in the stadium, Puma branched out, marrying sports with fashion in 1998 with a collection of Jil Sander--designed sneakers. Lines for Christy Turlington's Nuala brand followed, as did Evisu's True Love Never Dies jeans and collaborations with Philippe Starck and Alexander McQueen...
...Oscar Niemeyer: Houses (Rizzoli) Alan Hess celebrates the work of the Brazilian architect with Alan Weintraub's photographs of houses designed by Oscar Niemeyer in his home city of Brasília. Some featured are those of Marco Antonio Amaral Rezende, Flavio Marcilio and Sebastião Camargo...
...Catholicism in 1954 and credited her faith for "inner stability which enables me to write better." Her best-known novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), about an eccentric, Mussolini-worshipping teacher at a girls' school, was based on Spark's Edinburgh school days. Maggie Smith won an Oscar for playing the title role in the 1969 film...