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...guestrooms channel Fendi's creativity and style. She used furnishings she discovered at antique fairs around the world to turn them into mini-museums, incorporating items like a 1930s Mies van der Rohe sofa bed, a rare Picasso foulard and green steel furniture by Italian designer Tobia Scarpa. The glamorous Crystal Room seems weightless with its transparent Fendi Perspex furniture. The black-and-white Karl Suite, decorated with 1920s Viennese armchairs, honors designer Karl Lagerfeld (Fendi's creative director) and displays dozens of his fashion sketches. (See the best travel gadgets...
...continue to proliferate and we've added the potential for ecological suicide to our arsenals of self-destructiveness, so why not redraw Day's moral for a new generation? Unfortunately, the new director is a dope named Scott Derrickson, who has teamed with a morally deaf screenwriter named David Scarpa, and they have made what must be the worst major release in what may be the most disastrous year in recent Hollywood history...
...feel of an awards show in there," says David Scarpa, writer of The Day The Earth Stood Still, as he exited the L.A. meeting, which followed an earlier, equally celebratory one in New York attended by some 500 WGA members. "There were a lot of standing ovations." The crowd cheered Verrone and negotiator David Young, as well as the Screen Actors Guild, for that union's solidarity with the writers over the last few months...
...winning jurisdiction over reality and animation writers. "The strike was worthwhile," says WGA member Keith Glover. "It needed to be done for the future." Unlike earlier writers' strikes, this one appears to have strengthened the guild, writers said. "The '80s strikes left the guild in acrimony and disarray," says Scarpa. "This time we're better off and more unified...
Benefits managers like Scarpa are falling in love with Internet-based procurement software--and asking where it's been all their lives. For years, companies have used the Net to obtain bids for everything from paper clips to laptops and industrial chemicals. Yet buying health care has remained an archaic, labor-intensive and costly process. Both employers and providers have treated health care as too complex and variable to be put up for online bids. As auction software has become more sophisticated, though, companies are using it to award gnarly contracts for relocation, travel and other complicated services. Today these...