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Forget ringing cell phones. Last fall my younger brother introduced me to a new way to harass fellow passengers. On the ride in from Los Angeles International Airport, as he whizzed through traffic with my husband and me in tow, he suddenly began barking like a G-rated Tourette's sufferer: "Entertainment." Pause. "Restaurants." Pause. "Hollywood." Pause. Bleary-eyed from jet lag after our flight from Hong Kong, my husband and I exchanged confused glances. "Call!" Eric bellowed. The routine repeated itself until Eric pulled up at a trattoria moments before closing...
...Survivor 3" will be here before you know it. Probst will be back, with 16 ambitious new castaways in tow, camped out for 43 days in some faraway place (the word is, Africa). It won't be quite as breathless as "Survivor 2" - would the second season be as big as the first? - which in turn wasn't as breathless as "Survivor 1," which wasn't going to be an easy act to follow anyway...
...billion they paid to see new releases at theaters. Home entertaining is decidedly back to basics. Remember onion dip? The Mom Rule has re-emerged as America's primary meal- planning guide: if she never heard of it, don't serve it. With a couple of children in tow, mothers and fathers simply don't have time to hunt for goat cheese and sun-dried tomatoes in the supermarket. Marsha Bristow Bostick fondly recalls the leisurely evenings she spent at home before her children were born, ''cooking wonderful things with my husband while we sipped white wine...
...with a report about a 33-year-old villager nicknamed Psycho who conveniently left behind a note reading: "I will sacrifice myself, blast all, burn all, kill scores of them, all is over." Suddenly, the race among Chinese journalists to cover a hot story became a rush to tow the party line. Editors recalled their reporters and ran only official stories under headlines like: SCHOOL EXPLOSION AFTERMATH IN JIANGXI WELL HANDLED. Chinese Web portals deleted earlier newspaper articles that had mentioned the fireworks. Police told peasants not to talk to reporters...
...Plantes? Ask Sidney Toledano, president and chief executive of Christian Dior Couture, and he'll tell you: fraternit*. After all, Karl Lagerfeld, another legend who now designs for Chanel, was backstage taking photographs. And John Galliano, Dior's women's designer, was watching with actress Cate Blanchett in tow. "It was a great moment for Paris," Toledano said...