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...American woman travels to Europe, where she acquires Old World sophistication and worldly acquaintances. In this case, the young woman is CHELSEA CLINTON, left, who last week hooked up with GWYNETH PALTROW and MADONNA for the Versace fashion show in Paris. Clinton, 21, who is studying in England at Oxford, sat in the front row wearing a Versace pantsuit and pin-straight hair, effectively stealing the spot-light from her companions, from whom she seems to have picked up some primping tips. At a nightclub later, she wore a Versace dress. Though her makeover was widely praised, there are still...
...Oxford, England...
...let’s call him Dusty) is wearing slightly different versions of the willowy rancher meets rugged mountain man outfit: a traditional wife-beater and stripped oxford (open, of course—wouldn’t want Dusty to overheat in the prairie sun), macho-man Texas-sized belt buckle and jeans. His seemingly unwashed, stringy, chin-length, dirty brown hair is either tucked innocently behind one ear or wisping across his rugged, bearded chin. Dusty is sensitive. He probably plays the banjo and knows how to speak Cherokee. He’s the kind of wilderness...
...watching Jim Broadbent act. His W.S. Gilbert in Topsy-Turvy, the impresario in Moulin Rouge and, most delectably, the barmy aristocrat in A Sense of History (which he wrote) all suggest a beguiling expanse of personality. His work in Iris--as John Bayley, the Oxford professor who escorted his wife, novelist Iris Murdoch (Judi Dench), through Alzheimer's disease--adds tragic bafflement to the gifts on display in Broadbent's work. A Golden Globe nomination and laurels from two critics' groups have given the Englishman a new sensation: "I seem to be entering into the strange world of awards...
AMERICAN PI The beauty of mathematics, says Harvard- and Oxford-trained mathematician Jonathan David Farley, can never be fully captured on film. Farley weighs in on A Beautiful Mind, math and the movies at time.com/sampler...