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DIED. PAUL HENNING, 93, creator of the long-running 1960s sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies (and its spin-off, Petticoat Junction); in Burbank, Calif. Henning, who composed the show's theme song, The Ballad of Jed Clampett, based the hit series on locals he encountered during his boyhood camping trips in the Ozarks...
Even in Valvo's Collection line, which makes up 75% of his profit, underpinnings are key. One $390 beaded-lace skirt features a pleated-tulle petticoat. When celebrities do wear Valvo--Catherine Zeta-Jones; Beyonce, to meet Nelson Mandela in South Africa--they trade on his style, not his name. "There's an incredible simplicity to the lines but an impact and glamour you don't find a lot of places," says stylist Nick Steele, who has dressed Claire Danes and Radha Mitchell in Valvo's looks. Valvo, who spends four months of each year traveling to meet current...
...many of the ITMFG films swamp us with religious and sorcerous arcana. A priest in ?CESK? announces these rules, as if every educated person knows them: ?When two opponents have the same strength, the one with the taller altar will win,? and ?He who wears a red petticoat will be possessed by the god of war.? ?Devil Fetus? mixes ghost lanterns and paper money (actual paraphernalia of grieving) with a levitating mom, a bleeding mirrors and a flying carpet that?s less magic than black magic. To make a ?love hex? operable, in ?Eternal Evil,? a man needs his sister...
...boned, all-American kind of girl. She’s got chocolate brown eyes and windblown, I-combed-this-with-my-fingers and washed-with-tree-bark-herbs hair that really looks good wrapped in a simple leather string. Her assorted Laura Ashley-esque flower print dresses and full petticoat skirts are unadorned, yet ethereal. Jane bakes bread. She knows how to make those Little House on the Prairie daisy chains and how to tell if it’s going to rain in a fortnight by smelling the tree moss. Jane thought of leaving it all and getting...
Center Street (once called Petticoat Lane because all its businesses were run by women whose husbands were off hunting whales in the Pacific) is home to many wonderful art galleries, among them the Sailor's Valentine Gallery, which specializes in "art brut," or outsider...