Word: weirdness
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...mugging for the camera and the culture that accompanies it. Her first few shoots have revealed a lot about the profession. iI worked with one guy who was a student and he had me do a lot of fun poses, but then I had this guy who was real weird and dirty,i she remembers. iI was like, eYeah. Get away from me.ii She admits the situation was disturbing, but sheis excited to branch out into other aspects of the industryoparticularly runway work. Her manager, Cat, says the catwalk will be Ashantiis focus, but other than a low-key fashion...
...year of back-and-forth, DiCaprio finally agreed to meet at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 30, during what people tell me was the best fourth quarter of any Super Bowl in history. "I don't even know who was playing today," he admits. "St. Louis and some weird other team that beat somebody else that was supposed to get in the Super Bowl." DiCaprio isn't as in touch with American culture as American culture is with him. The son of a legal secretary and a hippie underground-comic-book artist, both retired, DiCaprio still thinks of himself...
Always remember this: for DiCaprio, Titanic--the all-time blockbuster that made him king of the movie world--was an anomaly, a fluke. He built his career not by playing the blameless hero in big swoony technotrash but by finding weird corners and gray areas in troubled teens in small, off-Broadwayish movies. He was a critics' darling before he was a heartthrob. The easy ingratiation he paraded in Titanic is one of his gifts, but not the most notable. We prefer his off-kilter choice of projects, his perfect pitch within so many of the characters he's played...
...posting questions to people who just like being helpful--instead of professionals billing by the hour--the exchange can feel as friendly and personal as leaning over a picket fence and asking a neighbor how he keeps his lawn so green. It also means you might get some pretty weird answers--or none...
...kook. When JACK GARGAN, Ventura's candidate, became the party's chair last year, war broke out. Then came the parade of drop-ins--first DONALD TRUMP, then WARREN BEATTY. By the time professional activist LENORA FULANI had relocated in PAT BUCHANAN'S kitchen, it was just too weird. Last week, Perot allies ousted Gargan in a meeting marred by shouting and shoving. When Ventura dubs the party a "dysfunctional family," he's being kind...