Word: stylist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sleek Armani suit, the next in Vegas sequins, another in a pair of chic ragtag overalls. These days, though, Arsenio appears to be taking few fashion risks. During a recent tuxedo fitting at Los Angeles' posh JonValdi clothier, the 40-year-old comic was accompanied by a personal stylist, Julie Mijares, who had dressed him that evening in the loose-fitting jeans and Hush Puppies he was wearing. "I just like whatever she tells me to like," Arsenio happily confessed. At that moment Julie was trying to get him to like some peg-legged tux trousers and a pair...
...different from the rest of us. Which is probably why, in the early days of his term, when the Clintons spent a lot of time palling around with the likes of Barbra Streisand and, in the case of the President, being attended by a Beverly Hills stylist, they came across as parvenus rather than Kennedyesque sophisticates--and were attacked far more fiercely for sucking up to Hollywood than the Kennedys and Reagans ever were. None of us wants our own class anxieties magnified by the White House...
AILING. MEL TORME, 70, velvet-voiced song stylist; after a stroke; in Los Angeles. Torme was hospitalized in guarded condition after developing pneumonia and a partially collapsed lung...
...Rimes either knows the heartsickness behind country songs or can fake it brilliantly. There is a hint of girlishness in the choice of some lightweight material on the album (MCG/ Curb), and her singing sometimes is closer to the full-throttle glottal attack of Brenda Lee, a precocious stylist of the Cline years, than to Patsy herself. That's O.K., though--Rimes, who turns 14 later this month, is still a work in progress. Her voice already works handsomely...
Dashiell Hammett might be called the principal love of Hellman's busy love life. He is credited with inventing the hard-boiled detective with the dour, daring Continental Op of Red Harvest and Sam Spade of The Maltese Falcon. A clear, forceful prose stylist, Hammett was also a loner, a womanizer and a drunk. He had none of Hellman's worldly ambition, and he tailored his behavior to no one. Needless to say, she was crazy about...