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...there's no place like moan for the holidays. That's now the tradition for year-end movies, and this year the season of official good feeling is refracted in Oscar-envious films about troubled folks. A schizophrenic mathematician, a slow-witted father, an amnesiac writer, a disfigured playboy, unhappy families in Manhattan and on an English estate--all these sad souls threaten to turn the holiday film scene into a Yuletide reunion at Bellevue. But wait. Most of these tales are ultimately journeys to spiritual health. And if you need a dose of old-movie magic--reach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: O Come, All Ye Dysfunctional | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...Going Once Display of garish wealth or shopping opportunity of the century? Call it what you will, but the auction in Brunei to help pay off the massive debts of the Sultan's naughty playboy brother, Prince Jefri Bolkiah, was the tackiest display of useless extravagance ever assembled. If your shopping list included gold-plated toilet-brush holders, 8,500 slabs of Italian marble and an attack-helicopter simulator, you were in luck. The citizens of Brunei were not: in a victory for good taste, the auction raised a paltry $8 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scandals | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...border between the two countries. His murderous chief of police, Johnny Abbes, made sure that the Republic had the best-fed sharks in the Caribbean. "A toad in body and soul," Abbes would be the novel's vilest character were it not for Trujillo's son Ramfis, a playboy known abroad for his affairs with Hollywood stars and at home for raping schoolgirls. Vargas Llosa plants Trujillo securely in his time and place, but the book's dictator also crosses temporal and physical boundaries to remind us that tyranny remains the source of Latin America's best fiction. Like Gabriel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Survival of the Fittest | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

...Playboy is branching out into the doll business with anatomically correct replicas of playmates. Victoria Silvstedt is the first model. She’ll be on the shelves from now until March, for a total...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Fifteen Minutes | 12/6/2001 | See Source »

...glance, Adams House resident Stephen Smith ’02 does seem like a bit of a playboy. His peppermint smile, spiked, lemon blonde hair, and preppy wardrobe smack of Abercrombie and Wall Street. However, to evoke that hackneyed adage, appearances can be deceiving. If Stephen Smith is a playboy, he is the playboy of the collegiate socialist movement...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: The Social Socialist | 12/6/2001 | See Source »

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