Word: rogerism
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...riff on the Michael Moore style of confrontation, it's a tactic I'm usually not crazy about, since anyone can seem a fool when he's not allowed in on the joke. As Moore once made me uneasily sympathetic to (or feel pity for) General Motors chairman Roger Smith, so Ali G. nudged me to the side of the politicians and aged authors who were the butts...
...models' mile-long legs strutting out from tiny '80s-style mini skirts at Proenza Schouler. Or you could study the beautiful workmanship on a short swingy white Carolina Herrera dress with black lace inserts. Or you could sit front row at Oscar de La Renta and alternately marvel at Roger Federer seated nearby and a crisp white shift dress breezing down the runway on the model Jacquetta Wheeler...
Swarovski claims to offer the highest quality on the market and the most extensive range of sizes and colors?15,000 in its catalog. In July, Bruno Frisoni launched a couture shoe-and-bag collection for Roger Vivier starring clusters of colored Swarovski crystals. The same week, Dior, Chanel and Jean Paul Gaultier all sent gowns embroidered with Swarovski crystals down their runways...
James Blake, formerly of the Class of '01 and the No. 5 ranked tennis player in the world, lost 7-6 (7), 6-0, 6-7 (9), 6-4 to No. 1 Roger Federer in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open tonight. Federer has won eight Grand Slam titles and is seeking his ninth. A victory would have been Blake's first in a Grand Slam quarterfinals match. (THC/AP...
...Cooler contretemps (which ended with the scene "substantially intact," in Roger Ebert's tantalizing phrase) is among the titanic Hollywood battles itemized in Kirby Dick's very entertaining documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated. The movie is a broadside against the MPAA on behalf of indie filmmakers, and is sponsored by the Independent Film Channel. It's a jazzy jeremiad that dances around the whole dilemma of ratings. Should children be kept from seeing adult films? Can a child's movie maturity be determined by his or her chronological age? If there's a ratings system - by any other...