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...cooking with gas. Forget Cate, Nicole or any of the other expected hopefuls - Harvek Milos Krumpetzki, an eccentric Polish migrant with pallid skin and ears protruding like Duchamp urinals, is Australia's unlikeliest Oscar contender. Last month the fictional Krumpet's life epic, from his Polish pine-forest birth before World War II to his Alzheimer's fug in a Melbourne retirement village, garnered his Claymation creator a nod for Best Short Film (Animated) at next week's Academy Awards ceremony. Up against toon titans Pixar, Disney and Blue Sky, Elliot and his tragicomic creation, who endures Tourette's syndrome...
Both lines include hair and skin-care products. "I would never create cosmetics without skin care," Iman says. "I find that in Western societies girls wear makeup way too young and worry about their skin way too late. I grew up with the opposite mentality." --By Nadia Mustafa
...upcoming ad for Estee Lauder's Clear Difference skin treatment, a ponytailed Carolyn Murphy lounges on leaf green and white pillows wearing homemade jewelry. "She looks pure and beautiful and approachable," says Aerin Lauder, who oversaw the campaign (and made sure the green pillows were exactly the same shade as the product's packaging...
...even if I don't have one, I look for one to squeeze," she says, her eyes widening. She also likes popping other people's pimples, sometimes going for them without permission. "Not a lot of people let me pop them anymore. And all my friends have pretty good skin. I should be a facialist...
...mystery. Every spywatcher knows about Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov, who was assassinated in London in 1978 in a ploy that James Bond or Austin Powers would appreciate: a shadowy stalker jabbed Markov in the leg with an umbrella rigged to inject a pellet of ricin under his skin (the killer was never found, but the KGB and the Bulgarian secret service were prime suspects...