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...Valentino's departure represents a poignant passing of an enduring fashion generation which includes Yves Saint Laurent who retired in 2002, and Emanuel Ungaro, who sold his house and retired soon after in 2004, and it also points to designers like Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren, who have created enduring fashion empires and who are nearing retirement...
...About My Mother, Pedro Almodóvar's Oscar-winning film of 1999, identity is not a stable character trait. A nurse becomes a prostitute, a nun becomes pregnant, a prostitute becomes a saint and several men become women. The much-anticipated stage adaptation of the film, now playing at the Old Vic Theatre in London until Nov. 24, doesn't settle on a single form either. Containing a film sequence and several plays-within-the-play, it is, like its transgender characters, a type of crossover - a trans-genre. What it wants to say through its densely layered metadrama...
...Parisians and other French holiday makers who played the safe card by opting for the sunny Riviera were not disappointed, however. Vacationers in Nice, Saint-Tropez, Marseille and other Mediterranean coastal spots were treated to the heat and sun usually associated with summer. The downside of this, returnees from the Côte d'Azur still bitterly complain, was that the crowds were horrendous this year. You really can't please all the people all the time...
...psychoanalyst: "What is remarkable is that she integrated it in a way that enabled her to make it the organizing center of her personality, the beacon for her ongoing spiritual life." Certainly, she understood it as essential enough to project it into her afterlife. "If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of 'darkness.' I will continually be absent from Heaven - to [light] the light of those in darkness on earth," she wrote in 1962. Theologically, this is a bit odd since most orthodox Christianity defines heaven as God's eternal presence and doesn't really provide...
...time." He takes a breath. "Who would have thought that the person who was considered the most faithful woman in the world struggled like that with her faith?" he asks. "And who would have thought that the one thought to be the most ardent of believers could be a saint to the skeptics?" Martin has long used Teresa as an example to parishioners of self-emptying love. Now, he says, he will use her extraordinary faith in the face of overwhelming silence to illustrate how doubt is a natural part of everyone's life, be it an average believer...