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...Hilary Swank is cranked up. The high-cheekboned, high-energy beauty is nearly popping from the chair outside her local Starbucks. It's not the Tazo Awake tea that's got her this way; it's her schedule. "The ninth is the New York Film Critics Awards," she begins, beaming a toothy grin. "The 10th I do Jay Leno, the 11th I fly to Paris to find a dress, the 18th is the National Board of Review, the 19th is the Los Angeles Film Critics and the 23rd is the Golden Globes...
...weeks? Life for a young actress doesn't get much better than this. Following last fall's release of the indie sleeper Boys Don't Cry--in which she portrays Teena Brandon, a sexually confused Nebraska woman who was raped and murdered for posing as a man--Swank won Best Actress honors from critics in Los Angeles, New York City, Boston and Toronto. Her Golden Globe competitors are Meryl Streep, Annette Bening, Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore--and she's a near cinch for an Oscar nomination. Not bad for a 25-year-old whose flashiest roles before now were...
...Marines, always proud of their mud-and-blood traditions, will soon be tooling around in swank, new Mercedes-Benz sport-utes. The World War II-designed jeeps have finally worn out, and the Marines decided that the Mercedes Gelandewagen best meets its need for a rugged off-road vehicle small enough to fit into helicopters. Most of the 62 vehicles have been sent to bases in California and North Carolina, and the final dozen will be delivered to Marines in Okinawa in time for Christmas...
...garish movie mural, Diego Rivera-style. While Welles (MacFayden) and producer John Houseman (Elwes) try to persuade their government patron (Jones) not to cancel the show, Nelson Rockefeller (Cusack) romances Rivera (Blades), then literally trashes his work. There's also a young actress (Watson), an old ventriloquist (Murray), a swank saleswoman for fascism (Sarandon)--just about anyone who was alive then, and dabbling in the arts, is in this too-much of a movie...
Wallpaper designer Patty Madden is a regular at Manhattan's swank W Hotel, but she's not there for its minimalist-chic decor, or the hipper-than-thou people who pack the bar. Instead she can usually be found in the hotel restaurant Heartbeat, eagerly waiting for the end of her meal. That's when James Labe, the tea sommelier, will bring out a platter of 10 loose-leaf teas. Some neophytes might balk at offerings like Bao Jong, a honey-tasting Taiwanese tea, which goes for $10 a pot. Madden, 45, who only started drinking such teas in earnest...