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Gone are the decades-old study carrels scrawled with "Ec 10 bites" and "Orgo 'till I die, baby." Banished are the cracked pleather sofas and clunky table lamps that took up space but never turned on. In their place are sleek new desks, armless chairs and retro light fixtures. Welcome to the new Lamont, a stylish cross between traditional elegance and '90s minimalism...
...brand extensions, while Island Records founder Chris Blackwell's laid-back Island Outpost retreats in the Caribbean have become destinations in their own right. With help from pals Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz, Andre Balazs, the owner of Los Angeles' fabled Chateau Marmont, recently added the Standard, a retro-kitsch palace for young, hard-partying hipsters, complete with inflatable sofas and an AstroTurf pool deck. Balazs hopes to create a chain of anti-Best Westerns...
...vaguely resembling a play by William Shakespeare. The guys are played by girls in wigs and mustaches; the fairies by guys in loincloths and glitter; and Bottom is a pair of street dudes who together are transformed into the show's title ass. Shakespeare must be spinning, but the retro high spirits are hard to resist...
Some critics dismiss this as "retro," and that draws a grimace from Mays, who prefers words like "progressive." But he admits that one thing he learned in his 14 years of designing cars for Volkswagen/Audi is that you never look forward without first looking over your shoulder. Not surprisingly, the first design from Ford that bears Mays' signature is the 2001 Thunderbird, which at a glance looks distinctly like the 1957 model of the same name. Others must agree, given the fleet of nostalgia-tinged new models coming from the likes of Chrysler, Jaguar and Nissan...
...adults with fond recall of the retro James Bond TV show on which the movie is based, and with more recent memories of the sharp yet genial bite of director Barry Sonnenfeld's Men in Black and Get Shorty, the film is an unmitigated disaster. That's especially so considering that hotheaded Jim West is played by the coolly calculating Will Smith, his epicurean colleague Artemus Gordon by the subtly self-regarding Kevin Kline and Dr. Arliss Loveless by Kenneth Branagh, who seems more amused by Loveless' absolute evil than any audience will...