Word: sheen
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...mogul or a movie star wants to enjoy untainted American spaces, what's left? Try Montana. For members of the names-in-bold-print set, from Ted Turner to Tom Brokaw, from Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan to Mel Gibson and Kiefer Sutherland, from Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen to Oakland A's owner Walter Haas, the Big Sky State has become the hottest of hideaways. Says Russ Francis, a former San Francisco 49er football star who recently joined the rush to Big Sky Country: "This is the last best place in America...
PLAYED IN THE USA (Learning Channel, debuting Oct. 6, 10 p.m. EDT). Martin Sheen is host for a 13-week series of documentaries and short films, produced by Stevenson Palfi and Blaine Dunlap, celebrating American music, from the making of the cast album for Company to profiles of singer Eartha Kitt, jazz/ rock fiddler Papa John Creach and legendary bassist and composer Charles Mingus...
...nothing else, the media hounds are a colorful group. The Washington newsletter Between the Lines bills itself as "your bi-weekly watchdog on the politics and personalities of the entertainment and news industries." Included among the menaces to the national well-being are Cher, Barbra Streisand, Martin Sheen, Debra Winger, Tom Cruise, Tyne Daly, David Crosby, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Weaver and Morgan Fairchild...
...Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas would stomp through such gatherings reminding people that he rode the rods out of Yakima, Wash., to go to Columbia Law School in 1922. Twenty-five years ago, Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey palmed his way around the stately chambers in the righteous sheen of polyester. And a labor leader like George Meany still had the hands of a plumber. If there was anybody at the Harriman reception who had done physical labor in the past 10 years, or now makes less than six figures, he was parking the Mercedes for the guests...
...Dyck loved the stuff of the world -- the shimmer and exact texture of fabrics (he was, after all, the son of a silk merchant in Antwerp), the brightness of flesh or the passing melancholy that settles on a face, the layering of vapor and light in the sky, the sheen of armor. In this sense of lavishness he was, of course, very much Titian's heir, and it is wonderful to see how much pictorial interest he could discover in inert substances -- particularly the brocades and velvets worn by his sitters -- in the course of translating them into patches...