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Moviedom is filled with memorable fashion imagery--Vivien Leigh's Gone With the Wind green velvet, Audrey Hepburn's Sabrina cocktail sheath, Jean Seberg's T shirts in Breathless, almost anything Mike Myers wore in Austin Powers--but how often can articles of clothing be credited with having a performance-enhancing power akin to, say, a film's director? It happened, it seems, during the shooting of Todd Haynes' Velvet Goldmine, an homage to the David Bowie '70s and the world of men in makeup. According to Toni Collette, who played a rock-star wife, all the leopard print...
...Gates published a book (co-authored with Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson) called The Road Ahead. Peering far into the future, he glimpsed a technology-rich dreamworld where you will be able to "watch Gone With the Wind," he wrote, "with your own face and voice replacing Vivien Leigh's or Clark Gable's." Apparently this is just what the public had been dying to do, for The Road Ahead became a runaway best seller, though it is lustrous with earnest goofiness, like a greased-down haircut...
...that's just acting. In reality, she's more of an ingenue. Zimmett says people describe her as a Demi Moore-type and once someone said she looked like Juliette Lewis, but she concentrates on a resemblance to Vivien Leigh. "Our facial tics are the same," Zimmett offers, convincingly...
...25th-reunion book the secret in many of our 50-year-old hearts: how hard it is to come to terms with the fact that "I'm not at the top of my field ... that I will probably never do any significant or well-known intellectual work." Vivien Weir Russe says she was asked recently if she had fulfilled her life's ambition. "The irony is I have no memory of having any concept of my future." We were too busy chasing...
...several years with the idea that when they work, public funds will pick up the cost and continue the program," she says. "But that hasn't happened for years. It's an illusion. Anything you want to do in an organized way, a big way, needs government funding." Adds Vivien Stewart of the Carnegie Foundation: "In this country we are very good at pilot programs, but we are very bad at scaling up to a point where we can actually turn some of these things around. It can't be done with the resources of small organizations...