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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...
Last week, as I was getting my hair cut in Harvard Square, the stylist asked what my concentration was. When I told her it was American history and literature, I immediately added a sarcastic, "really practical, I know," to stave off any such comments from her. It's a reflex by now. She observed that many Harvard students major in such seemingly impractical subjects and wondered whether Harvard even offers more "useful" majors such as journalism or accounting. I told her no; she said, "I guess the Harvard name is all you need." I said I certainly hoped...
...QUESTION SHOULD NOT BE, "is the Bible Fact or Fiction?" but, rather, as fiction, how does the Bible stand up? As a stylist, God is uneven. He fails to speak with a consistent authoritative voice. His use of legendary material lacks the verisimilitude of a Homer or a John Ford. He often repeats himself, betraying his insecurity as a writer. What a better world this would be if its dominant faiths took their fictions not from God but from some author with greater compassion and understanding, such as Shakespeare or Herman Melville or Dr. Seuss. BOB BLACK Albany, New York...
Misa, who was trained in Japan, brings several year's experience as head stylist at Air Wave, a Japanese salon in the Porter Exchange. She is joined by Toru Yamomoto who also worked at Air Wave and was originally trained in London...
...took only a few dozen crates of lingerie and dresses, the attentions of a stylist and the gifts of photographer Annie Leibovitz to make 10 young actresses look this good for Vanity Fair's Hollywood issue. But the two men accompanying them on the billboard above Sunset Boulevard aren't quite the babes they once were. Thirty-six years after Some Like It Hot, TONY CURTIS and JACK LEMMON slipped into something less comfortable again for the shoot. "I don't do drag," said Curtis, 69. "I told them I wanted to look like a femme fatale." Luckily, the actor...