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...incontinent fluffy bunnies. Certainly, being a Vogue staffer had its perks. My first fashion event was a major skin care launch held at the penthouse suite of one of Sydney’s most exclusive hotels. I was sent to gather enough information to write a newsy puff-piece and to take photos for the social pages, but my secret agenda was to gather as many freebies as possible. But first I had to endure a seemingly endless babble of pseudo-science from PR representatives wearing faux lab coats. This was a none-too subtle tie-in with the company?...
...takes a while inside the Reeves' airy house an hour north of New York City before you notice signs that the place is home to a man who navigates his days in a sip-and-puff wheelchair. But those signs are there: the 31-in. spaces between obstacles; the tall-legged dining-room table, allowing the whole family to pull up to dinner together; the stubbornly fraying seam in the living room carpet ("Tire damage," Reeve says with a laugh). But such easy domesticity was hard won for a man whose body suffered such a catastrophic insult...
...Much as he loved music, Elvis also wanted to be an actor - a serious actor, like his idols, James Dean and Marlon Brando - but producers and directors kept sending him puff scripts. He appeared in 33 films, and while all of them were profitable, only a few (the mega-hits "Jailhouse Rock" and "King Creole" included) truly satisfied their star...
...company's AOL division accounted for some $270 million in revenue over the past two years. The amount involved is almost trivial in a $38 billion-a-year company, but the implications are not. The agencies are investigating whether AOL executives contrived to misstate advertising revenues to puff up the performance of AOL just as it was closing its merger with Time Warner. AOL Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons has been adamant in declaring the company's innocence and asserting that it followed accounting rules properly, a position backed by its accountant Ernst & Young, which reaffirmed its opinion after...
...time when far too many in this world are motivated to violence by a perception that Americans are shallow, frivolous and decadent, it's a bit unsettling that TIME would devote eight pages to a puff piece about the cosmetic contributions to humanity made by Tom Cruise--a man so dedicated to acting that he is willing to learn the remarkable skill of blowing a single underwater bubble with one nostril. How impressive! MARK BRUNER Chippewa Lake, Ohio...