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...many parents, plain old dungarees will not do. At Annelise Plehn's Just So boutique in Washington, D.C., for example, some customers are willing to spend $483 for a pink silk taffeta party dress for eight-year-olds. Comments Stuart Robbins, a retail analyst with the Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette investment firm: "Children's apparel and accessories are now a fashion business, not the commodity business they were when the baby-boom generation was growing...
...black Trans Am. A pink...
...writing demands that you live inside your subject, and for Hughes the bell is always ringing on the first day of class. "He has an incredible memory--visual, audio, emotional--of his own high school years," notes James Spader, who played the deliciously haughty preppie Steff in Pretty in Pink. "He's very much in touch with the adolescent part of himself," Sheedy says. It's a golden touch. Who wouldn't grab the chance to remake one's adolescence, in which the geek in one's closet now has the swagger of fearless charm, and a rock symphony swells...
...well, Hughes was both an overgrown kid, with spiky hair and high-top basketball shoes, and a big brother. He encouraged his bright young actors to improvise dialogue and make suggestions about the films' structures. Says Howard Deutch, who directed Hughes' screenplay of Pretty in Pink, "I've never seen a writer who is so willing to adapt his dialogue and script." (Thanks in part to urgings from his cast, a female-flesh scene was removed from The Breakfast Club.) Hughes took the youngsters to rock concerts, hosted cast dinners or simply made himself available to listen. But in this...
Despite the sweltering heat, curious crowds of reporters packed the pink courtroom in Port-au-Prince day after day. Armed soldiers in steel helmets surrounded the defendant, who sat erect, dressed in a business suit, seemingly impervious to both the temperature and the allegations against him. Retired Army Colonel Samuel Jeremie, 52, who was once a close aide to former President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, had been charged with two counts of murder, each punishable by ten years in prison. He was also accused of military misconduct, a crime under Haitian law that could lead...