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TV season preview
Fall broadcast ABC Here are synopses, time slots and premiere dates, where available, for new series, movies and specials from the broadcast networks, cable channels and PBS. TV critic Hal Boedeker assesses the programs. Opportunity Knocks, 8 p.m....Tags: Fringe, Glenn Close, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Ian McShane, Miley Cyrus
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Meet the 'Project Runway 5' Designers, Guest Judges
Zap2It.comPrepare for fierceness. "Project Runway" is back. Bravo's "Project Runway" returns for its fifth season on Wednesday, July 16 at 9 p.m. ET/PT with 16 designers vying for the $100,000 cash prize, an editorial feature in Elle magazine, the opportunity to...Tags: Heidi Klum, Edith Head, Michael Kors, Christian Dior, Karl Lagerfeld
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Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent dies at 71
Yves Saint Laurent, one of the most influential and enduring designers of the 20th century, will be remembered for empowering women through his fashion, a longtime friend and associate said.
Saint Laurent died Sunday at his Paris home after a yearlong...Tags: Medicine, Retirement, Christian Dior, Western Medicines, Gucci Group NV
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Superheroes invade highbrow Met
Move over Picasso and Van Gogh--Superman and Spiderman are in the house.
A cadre of superheroes has invaded one of Gotham's top cultural institutions, bringing swaths of bright color, pop graphics and an everyman theme to the hallowed halls of the...Tags: George Clooney, Michelle Pfeiffer, Superman, Spider-Man, Christopher Reeve
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Kids critique fave reads
We recieved enough wonderful submissions to fill an entire newspaper--many have been published each Saturday in August in the Books section. See related links, below left, to view PDF versions of the published sections. Here are 100 titles recommended...Tags: Robert F. Kennedy, Motorcycling, Carl Hiaasen, Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln
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Legendary Designer Yves Saint Laurent Dead at 71
PARIS -- Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent, who reworked the rules of fashion by putting women into elegant pantsuits that came to define how modern women dressed, died Sunday evening, a longtime friend and associate said. He was 71.
Pierre Berge...Tags: Medicine, Retirement, Armed Forces, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Christian Dior
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Audiences loved Audrey Tautou as 'Amélie.' Now she's all sexed up in 'Priceless.'
Special to The TimesAUDREY TAUTOU became famous for playing a naif in "Amélie" seven years ago, but clearly, she's over it now. In "Priceless" (Hors de Prix), a new comedy directed and co-written by Pierre Salvadori, Tautou stars as a woman dependent on the kindness of...Tags: Prostitution, Audrey Hepburn, Eliot Spitzer, Gad Elmaleh
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No Pressure From Fame
Special to The CourantAsked about the tame sex scenes in her new movie "Priceless," French actress Audrey Tautou says, "You are disappointed? I understand." Giggles fill the phone, and one can almost see her espresso eyes growing wide at the jest. Tautou's Gallic...Tags: Marion Cotillard, Edith Piaf, Popular Music, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Gad Elmaleh
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Grand fashion revealed
Even if you've never stitched a hem, Gioia Diliberto's novel about a young seamstress who goes to Paris in 1919 to work for designer Coco Chanel is a lesson you won't want to miss. Diliberto, writing with style and attention to detail worthy of the great...Tags: Book, Clothing and Textiles Industry
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France has banned its Frenchness
The reams of news stories on the new French ban on smoking in cafes, restaurants and night spots have invariably focused on the aura of glamour those little death sticks once conveyed. In newspapers around the globe, nostalgic descriptions of the likes of...Tags: Values, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Ethics, Beverage Industry, Laws
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Fashion's piracy paradox
'BEING COPIED is the ransom of success," Coco Chanel once said. The fashion designer laughed when people dug through the trash outside her Paris atelier looking for fabric scraps from a forthcoming collection. She smiled approvingly when she passed...Tags: Labor Markets, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, University of Virginia, Claire McCardell, H&M
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A thing of beauty from a lowly mollusk
PEARL: A dense variously colored and usually lustrous concretion formed of concentric layers of nacre as an abnormal growth within the shell of some mollusks and used as a gem A step down from a diamond, at least in the hierarchy of the court, a pearl...
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