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Your Initials, Please The easiest way to identify luggage on the claim carousel is still old-fashioned initials. The idea of customizing travel gear started in France in 1854, when Louis Vuitton, a purveyor of steamer trunks, began hand-painting initials on its goods. Gaston-Louis, a grandson of Vuitton's founder, was obsessed with the trend of customization, particularly the use of stickers as a way of identifying a trunk's journey around the world. Today Louis Vuitton still offers personalization services--including hand-painting initials, stripes and crests in a choice of 15 colors...
...Producer Laurence Mark knows the odds are against movie musicals. But Larry loves the form so much, for its modern potential as much as its glorious history, that he dares to dream of other projects. Could he remake Carousel with Hugh Jackman? Or do a Chorus Line movie - right, this time? Why not think big and put on an original film musical...
Over drinks and cigarettes at the Carousel Bar in the French Quarter recently, Keen explained New Orleans by telling the story of a 15-year-old named "Caveman." On April 14, 2003, at 10:30 in the morning, high school football player Jonathan (Caveman) Williams was sitting in his gym class. The gymnasium was packed with kids. Without warning, two men with an AK-47 and a handgun walked into the gym, strode up to Caveman and shot and killed him. They fired at least 18 times, blowing off half his face and pockmarking the floor tiles underneath his body...
...fell in love with his style of acting and with acting in general,” says Martin, who performed in the Avignon Theater Festival that summer.Since then, Martin has been involved in about a dozen Harvard shows in only four semesters.His favorites include “Carousel,” his one foray into musical theater, and last semester’s “Lulu.” This semester Martin has roles in the Mainstage drama “The Playboy of the Western World” and in the Sunken Garden’s Children?...
...Flags amusement park, and after my friends and I waited in line to park and buy our tickets, we entered into another long line right inside of the gates. It wasn’t until 10 minutes later that we realized it was the line for the carousel, which none of us wanted to ride (or admit that we did anyway). We had simply seen the line and blindly gotten in it. Lining up has become a natural instinct: I am often tempted to gather a dozen people, line up at nothing, and see how many people join...