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...bottom. The actress wears the plenteous prosthetic posterior under her 1950s Sophia Loren--inspired straight skirts and clingy cardigans in Pedro Almodóvar's new film, Volver. "Mothers have beeg bottoms," the Spanish director of culturally charged films says in accented English as he sprawls on a sofa next to Cruz in his suite at the Chateau Marmont hotel in Los Angeles. "Your curves here are natural," he says to her, cupping his hands on his chest, "but not here," he says, pointing to his seat. "You walk very lightly. I wanted someone linked to the earth, someone exhausted after...
...style gives her drawings an unpretentious air that allows viewers to be surprised by their greatness. But however ardently they flirt with profundity, Chast's cartoons are always rooted in the regular humiliations of daily life. Earlier this year, a cartoon came to her full blown, right on the sofa where she's sitting for this interview. Her daughter was doing her homework and listening to a CD. "Sometimes you just kind of want to see if they're paying any attention to you, you know?" Chast says. "So I started to do a little dance to the music...
...five-minute drive away, Adelson, chairman of Las Vegas Sands, is thoroughly unimpressed. Adelson, 73, is ensconced in a sofa-laden suite at his own casino, the shimmering gold Sands Macau, being fussed over by an overprotective bodyguard, an intrusive makeup artist and his doctor wife. The Sands has already been raking in a fortune in Macau for two years, and, after a recent expansion, it rates as the largest casino in the world. And he's just getting started. On a band of reclaimed land called Cotai, between Macau's two outer islands, Adelson is creating an Asian Vegas...
...should it last 11/2 months - why not 10 years or five seconds?") and what an artist does ("Am I just something that is for people's free time?"). He works hard to convey his ideas, at times folding his slim frame in two as he slides from the sofa to the floor, punctuating his more complex thoughts with "do-you-know-what-I-mean?" said all in one breath. The time theme really gets him rolling: "Art is not part of the culture. Whether it should be is another big question. But it is part of the mainstream of entertainment...
...year-old monarch settled into a stuffed sofa for a 1-hour TIME interview for a story to appear in the coming week's magazine, he drew a dark picture of a region consumed by conflicts old and new, threatened by emerging Sunni-Shiite tensions and at risk of being completely destabilized if the U.S. attacks Iran. "I believe the Lebanese war dramatically opened all our eyes to the fact that if we don't solve the Palestinian issue, the future looks pretty bleak for the Middle East," he said. "I'm one of the most optimistic people...