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...beautiful girl. But I went to high school with three girls who look like Cameron Diaz. Uma Thurman is a different species. She's up there with Garbo and Dietrich in goddess territory." Like a 3-year-old, Tarantino demonstrates his affection through inventive cruelty. In Pulp Fiction he gave Thurman an adrenaline needle to the heart (a nice metaphor for love, Tarantino style). But that was a barrel of rose petals compared with what he cooked up for her in Kill Bill. "I get shot in the head, raped, kicked, beaten and sliced by samurai swords," says Thurman brightly...
Thurman waited nine long years for the chance to be brutalized onscreen. After getting a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for Pulp Fiction in 1994, she performed with varying degrees of conviction in stiff period pieces (A Month by the Lake, The Golden Bowl), little-seen indies (Tape, Chelsea Walls) and a few conspicuously horrible blockbusters (Batman & Robin, The Avengers). "I never built a niche for myself," says Thurman a bit defensively. "Some of that was because I didn't want the niches I could have had--the romantic heroine, the victim, the girl who needs to be rescued...
...that in order to satisfy the ever fickle tastes of young Japanese patrons, domestic labels have had to double their output compared with European clothiers'. The endless search for the next new thing, dubbed shinhatsubai in Japanese, affects everything from orange juice at the convenience store, which contains less pulp in the summer months, to ever so slightly different shades of khaki cargo pants for each season. Some fashionistas sniff that mix-and-match collaboration is simply this year's shinhatsubai. But the trend's champions argue that this craze might have a longer shelf life because it allows both...
...serial killer Patrice Alègre confessed to the 1992 murder of a transvestite, and claimed he'd done it on the orders of former mayor Dominique Baudis, now head of the agency that oversees TV and radio programming. Baudis hotly denied the charges, and last week, in a pulp-novel plot twist, Alègre recanted. The French media , which spent the past six weeks hounding Baudis, was left issuing pious but guilty-sounding reminders about the presumption of innocence and the risks of believing psychopaths. Baudis also faced down another accuser, a former prostitute who alleges having seen...
...five-year plan like the Soviet Union's, only ours was successful," says co-author Bui, visiting London last week for the U.K. launch. (An unusual media tour: no television appearances or photographs. Avoiding the corrupting power of fame is a Blissett principle.) "We're fans of pulp novels," he adds. "We love Elmore Leonard. Also Dashiell Hammett. And James Ellroy, especially American Tabloid, his 1995 novel about John F. Kennedy. We wanted to write a book like that set in Europe." Over five years they sketched out a plot ("except for the ending, which would have been...