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...with a soft lisp and a gift for gab, Alexie is an enrolled member of the Spokane tribe, though he also speaks proudly of his father's Coeur d'Alene heritage. Chatting in a plush Beverly Hills, Calif., hotel lobby a week before the movie's release, he's clearly stoked at the prospect that it might crack open doors for other budding Native auteurs. "Right away, we've given the whole idea of Indian filmmakers credibility," he says, beaming at the notion that Smoke Signals could do for his people what Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have...
Certainly her life was unpredictable. Even her death--in 1971, at the age of 87 in her private quarters at the Ritz Hotel--was a plush ending that probably would not have been predicted for Chanel by the nuns in the Aubazine orphanage, where she spent time as a ward of the state after her mother died and her father ran off. No doubt the sisters at the convent in Moulins, who took her in when she was 17, raised their eyebrows when the young woman left the seamstress job they had helped her get to try for a career...
...illustrate with a story: This past summer, Andrea did Let's Go in New Zealand. It sounded plush: traipsing through a lush English-speaking land of sheep and bungee jumps while breaking fresh territory for LG. But when Abby, en route from a semester in Australia, joined the party for a few days, she found nothing even resembling "party." Andrea was doing things in quintessential Harvard style--overdoing them, to the delight of her editors and at her own mental, physical and emotional expense. Repeated exhortations that this was "only a job", that Let's Go was as much about...
...honored guests were George Jones and Tammy Wynette. I sat slack-jawed and transfixed as they sang (We're Not) the Jet Set. ("No, We're not the Jet Set/ We're the old Chevrolet set/ Our steak and martini/ Is draft beer with weenie"*). She sat on the plush blue antique sofa, hair poufed out to here, with nails, makeup and outfit perfectly coordinated. She looked like a lotus blossom sitting next to George Jones, a perfect foil, but completely herself. It was the most relaxed I was ever to see her. Tammy was sweet, in the way that...
...signature seats in Sun City, Ariz. After a few drafting lessons from correspondence school, Shoemaker in 1928 joined a cousin to make a reclining porch chair using a piece of plywood and a yardstick. In later models, of which there were many, Shoemaker jazzed up the chair with plush upholstery, a retractable footrest, and during the '60s, a feature that allowed the sitter to recline and rock simultaneously...