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Spade's notion that something as everyday as a handbag should tell a story--easy summer afternoon, for instance--springs from her mother's Kansas City, Mo., closet. "She had clutches, oranges, pinks, chocolates, huge pearl buttons," she says. While an editor at Mademoiselle in the early 1990s, Spade found little on the market that lived up to her mother's collection. So in 1993 Spade began sketching boxy totes in her Manhattan loft and buying burlap for her bags from a potato-sack manufacturer found in the Yellow Pages. "One [fabric supplier] said to me, 'Honey, you look like...
...followed 9/11. "The exhibits are designed to change, because who knows what issues the country will be facing in the future," says Frank Hays, superintendent of the Manzanar historic site. "Sixty years of looking back on 9/11 will give us the time we've had to look back on Pearl Harbor." Says Okui: "What Manzanar should do is say to people, 'God, we did this. These people were cruelly treated. And I hope it never happens again...
Other December releases fared just as poorly: besides The Last Samurai, holiday big shots like Big Fish, Something’s Gotta Give, and Girl with a Pearl Earring were largely ignored when the Oscar nominations were released. And this year’s Best Picture category is a reverse image of its recent self, with four out of this year’s five nominees in theaters by November. Only the endlessly hyped The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, whose Best Picture nomination had been a given for months, premiered during the holidays...
...transcending the Harvard stereotype. “I’m just a little more off-beat than that. I love rugby, James Bond movies, poker, feminism and finding great old clothes at thrift stores. I don’t have a perfect manicure or one of the matching pearl necklace and earring sets that seem so abundant here. The date went all right, but I don’t really see a second one in my future...
...companies were smart and lucky. Newmarket, unencumbered by the MPAA embargo, sent Academy members screeners of Monster and Whale Rider and was rewarded with Best Actress nominations for Charlize Theron and 13-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes. Lions Gate flooded the membership with early screeners of Girl with a Pearl Earring (three arts-and-crafts citations) and The Cooler (a Supporting Actor nomination for Alec Baldwin...