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...alumni and campus events. The acquisition contradicts earlier reports about the magazine’s future. Last month, WWD.com reported that the magazine was on the verge of being bought out by Sandow Media, a company whose publications, such as the money magazine Worth, generally target wealthy audiences. Tom Allon, the chief executive of Manhattan Media, said that his company intends to “continue building on the direction that the magazine has been taking.” “It’s a fine publication,” he said. “We hope...
MOVIES What Happens in Vegas Directed by Tom Vaughan; written by Dana Fox; rated PG-13; out now She (Cameron Diaz) has just been dumped by the creep she adores. He (Ashton Kutcher) has been fired by his boss--his dad. They meet in Las Vegas, get drunk and married and spend the rest of this hectic comedy trying to decide if they're in hate or in love. (Guess.) It's all pretty formulaic, but the stars make it, well, not nearly as awful as it should...
Recount is told largely from the Gore camp's perspective; the Dems even get the marginally bigger stars--Kevin Spacey, Denis Leary and Ed Begley Jr. to the Republicans' Laura Dern, Tom Wilkinson and Bob Balaban. When a Florida court decision holds out hope for Gore, stirring music swells. When Bush recount honcho James Baker III (Wilkinson) walks onscreen, the sound track all but plays Darth Vader's theme...
...embrace and describe and sum up the city by mixing fictional story lines about diverse characters--rich, poor, homeless; black, white, Mexican--with actual facts (somebody might want to check them) about L.A.'s freeways and crime rates and history and such. It's reminiscent of one of Tom Wolfe's billion-footed beasts, but it's even more reminiscent of the socially conscious early 20th century naturalism of John Dos Passos and John Steinbeck. Fittingly, Frey uses a hard-boiled, under-punctuated, Hemingway type of nonstyle that seems to growl, I'm giving you the straight dope here...
...want Barack Obama to be the next President of our country. As an official celebrity, I know my endorsement has just made your mind up for you.' TOM HANKS, endorsing the Illinois Democrat on his MySpace page...