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Launching initially in London and Hong Kong, Sarment - the name refers to a grapevine's stem - is the brainchild of retired businessman Bertrand Faure Beaulieu and sommelier Philippe Messy. The idea is simple: poach a crack team of sommeliers from Michelin-starred and other top London restaurants like Papillon, the Square and Tom Aikens, and make them available to a select invited few. Seventy-five, to be exact...
Some years, size matters. Remember Josh, the Newfoundland the size of a minivan, which took the top prize four years ago? Some years are precious and prim, a papillon with attitude. But in this age of Authenticity, the beagle romped past the poodles, all fluffed and clipped, and the terrier, whose kin have taken Best in Show more than 40 times. Sometimes change beats experience. "I'm lucky to be at the end of his leash," said his trainer, Aaron Wilkerson, as Uno proceeded to chew on the microphones of reporters hoping for an interview...
Little did he know that the change would involve his dog, a pocketbook-size Papillon named Genevieve. Just for fun, Fried had written a handful of comic essays about his pooch, which his wife Katrina distributed to several online dog groups. After getting enthusiastic e-mail responses to the stories, Fried decided that he might have enough humorous anecdotes about Genevieve to sustain a book. With time on his hands and a marketing background to help him get a book into stores, he started Eiffel Press in 1999. Fried hired a book packager to help design the publication...
...coal mines are closed and the real places to avoid are New York holding cells and Texas pens--and policeman's bathrooms nationwide. Stay out of trouble for a full 150 minutes--and match the candlepower of Connery and Harris with McQueen and Hoffman with the 1973 prison epic Papillon. A good look at Guyana and you'll never jaywalk again. Still fidgety? Catch Paul Newman's two-spot in Cool Hand Luke alongside George Kennedy (who won an Oscar for the role) for cutting the heads off--what was it--gumball machines? Stay away from leaders, and watch your...
...Scaphandre et le Papillon underlines Bauby's determination to deny locked-in syndrome total victory. His condition may have defined the rules, but he was still able to play the game. And play he did. Not content to wink out one book, he proposed other book projects before his death, founded an association for victims of locked-in syndrome and their families and participated in a film aired on French TV last week about his struggle. "He loved life, and he lived it intensely--both before and after his accident," says Susanna Lea, a spokeswoman for Laffont who worked with...