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...among Spain's poorest regions, became one of the classiest vacation spots on the Mediterranean in the 1920s, exploded as a package-tourism destination in the 1970s, and ended the century as the most expensive part of Spain, a favorite hangout for stars such as Michael Douglas and Claudia Schiffer...
...hard times (he's at work on a screenplay titled--in a nod to Waugh--Bridesmaids Revisited), is sleeping with his 22-year-old gold-digging assistant, Lola, a viciously, flawlessly drawn avatar of the rising generation of postfeminist girl-women. But Philip still yearns for an old flame: Schiffer, an Oscar-winning actress whose new TV show is turning out to be a smash hit. Among these characters moves gentle, sophisticated, thwarted Billy Litchfield, a kind of freelance Guy Friday to rich people, who is very nice but way too poor to actually live in One Fifth...
Like all good fairy tales, this one starts with Claudia Schiffer. Once upon a time a fireplace fell on Schiffer's foot. She was pregnant at the time. "When a marble fireplace falls on your foot," Neil Gaiman explains, "and you're 7½ months pregnant, you stop going places. You sit around, and you read." Schiffer read Gaiman's novel Stardust and told her husband that it was the best book she'd ever read. Schiffer's husband is the director Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake). And thus it was that Gaiman finally made his big Hollywood movie...
...Ports International grew into the perfect hybrid of foreign cachet and local sensibility that Chinese woman craved. Many customers believed that the clothes they were buying at Ports' growing chain of stores were imported. Chan's marketers encouraged that perception, using high-profile models like Kate Moss and Claudia Schiffer in their ad campaigns. Ports had obvious advantages over competition from other foreign luxury brands: it was less expensive and had much wider distribution. But its real assets were the intangibles the Cibanis picked up by living in and traveling around China. "We gained an amazing experience from being here...
...were in college, but all ages were eligible to compete, Lee said. “Some of the dancers are significantly older than college students,” he said. “You don’t even need to come with a partner.” Jamie Schiffer and LaFarge, both from NYU, placed third in the Samba Dance for the gold standard. “We didn’t expect to do as well as we did,” LaFarge confessed. “It’s really hit or miss...