Word: showgirl
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...Provera married into one. His 1978 marriage to Cecilia Pirelli ended in divorce, but that didn't seem to hurt his stance with father-in-law Leopoldo, who continued to appoint him to top jobs at the family firm. (Tronchetti Provera has since taken up with a Tunisian model-showgirl known to Italians simply as Afef.) The Pirelli chairman does not yet yield the same kind of power as Agnelli, but he's trying. He took a major step in that direction last month when, together with the Benettons - of retail fame - he wrested control of Telecom Italia, the former...
...karaoke contest with a $5,000 grand prize. Throughout the film, there's a sense of dislocation: the characters are constantly on the go, traveling by bus, plane, and taxi; they've all lost hold of exactly where and who they are. Gwyneth Paltrow portrays a girlish Las Vegas showgirl (she wears pink tights and blue barrettes) who hits the road with a karaoke hustler played by Huey Lewis (yes, that Huey Lewis, as in the News). Paul Giamatti ("Private Parts") is a salesman who has grown so detached from his family that when he returns home, his kids...
...love mischief. And from what I can tell, the animal-loving freaks at the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are the only ones having any fun. So I called Tracy Reiman, leader of peta's Commando Chicks, a group of women who dress in skimpy showgirl outfits to protest chicken eating. These women were willing to degrade themselves for animals. That...