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From the earliest days of moving pictures, directors have been obsessed with bringing William Shakespeare's Macbeth to the screen. Orson Welles played the tragic king among Stonehenge-like ruins. Akira Kurosawa's murderous medieval lord went down in the most furious fusillade of arrows ever filmed. Roman Polanski, funded by Playboy Productions, filmed Lady Macbeth sleepwalking in the nude...
...long ago, the only Indonesians you could see kissing in the movies were teens in the back row of the theater. Now it's all up there on the screen. When a determined gay client locks lips with his architect in the recent film Arisan!, a satirical exploration of Jakarta's nouveaux riches, audiences can't get enough. "Very little is taboo anymore," says Titi Kamal, an up-and-coming actress who appeared in the biggest hit of last year, Eiffel ... I'm in Love, a teen romance set in Jakarta and Paris. Since its November release Eiffel has drawn...
...marketers of clothes. Designers like Coco Chanel, Elsa Schiaparelli and, later, Donna Karan and Jil Sander conjured entire fashion universes and great fortunes with ideas that revolutionized the way women dressed. Madeleine Vionnet reshaped the silhouette with her bias cut one seam coiling around the body and enhanced 1930s screen stars' sex appeal. Claire McCardell's Popover dress answered the sartorial prayers of '50s housewives all across America. And with the simple invocation to "feel like a woman, wear a dress," Diane von Furstenberg sent 300,000 women rushing to stores in the 1970s. More recently, Gela Taylor...
...pick up the phone and tell Stewart he would not be much longer, but by then Stewart had worked herself into a lather and barked, "Tell Peter Bacanovic I'll leave him and Merrill Lynch unless the hold music [is] changed." Then came the e-mail. On a large screen, Apfel projected an e-mail Faneuil had written to a friend in October 2001: "I just spoke to MARTHA! I have never, ever been treated more rudely by a stranger on the telephone." Later in the message, he wrote that Stewart complained about the phone manner of Merrill employees...
Online-dating sites are responding by trying to be more like real-life matchmakers. The fastest growing site, eHarmony.com draws 10,000 new users a day with a 436-question screen. Match.com the largest of the services, recently added its own test as well as an advice site manned by live therapists. "We can get into the nuances of chemistry and attraction too, but on a mass scale," says Trish McDermott, vice president of romance for Match.com...