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...spaghetti western changed that. Sergio Leone filched the plot from Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo (Hollywood had already remade Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai as The Magnificent Seven) for his 1964 Fistful of Dollars. Clint ambles into a rotten town commandeered by rival miscreants and takes both gangs down. In Fistful and the Leone-Eastwood followups For a Few Dollars More (surely the most honest title every slapped on a sequel) and The Good, the Bad & the Ugly, society was run by outlaws. The moral choice was among various shades of black. Anarchy ran riot, and the only recourse was martial...
...Among the prime directors of Italian Westerns (most of them shot in Spain, by the way) was Sergio Corbucci, who vaulted to prominence with the 1966 Django. It was The image of star Franco Nero coming into town not on horseback but on foot, dragging a coffin, was an instant sensation that cued more than 50 Django films, all unrelated to the original. Its theme song, by composer Luis Bacalov, remains one of those melodies that worms its way into a listener's brain and, as I can testify, can't be extracted for weeks. The Corbucci film also inspired...
...majority of our stores and very successful," says Stordahl, a Minnesota native who, overseeing women's apparel for Neiman Marcus for the past 13 years, has long been a regal fixture in fashion's front row. "It's very funny, because I grew up in a tiny little town in Minnesota. We were nowhere near a big city, and our source of fashion was catalogs, but I just knew this was what I wanted to do, so I started designing my own clothes, sewing," says Stordahl. Was she a trendsetter? "In my own mind," she says, laughing. She did something...
Natori quit her job as a vice president at Merrill Lynch and set to work creating her first collection. Thirty years later, the woman who gave us the seamless bra and modern, chic camisoles that can be worn either to bed or out on the town has four lingerie lines available everywhere, from Saks to Dillard's. She is also expanding into menswear and home, with a bedding collection and, down the road, rugs, tableware and lighting...
...whole existence of wine-making is a contradiction to most of the preconceived notions people have Lebanon," said Ramzi Ghosn, who along with his older brother Sami founded Massaya, one of Lebanon's newer wine-makers, near the Bekaa town of Chtaura. The Ghosn brothers are part of the generation that left Lebanon during the country's brutal 15-year civil war, and who began returning in the 1990s to rebuild the country with skills they learned abroad. For Ramzi, who studied marketing in the United States, wine is a perfect vehicle for changing the perception that Lebanon is haven...