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Esquire has always taken a gentlemanly approach to the pin-up photo. Let Maxim grease up spray-tanned starlets. Esquire's game is to dub some top-drawer actress a ''Woman We Love'' (not, say, a ''Woman We Ogle''), pen a purplish essay on the woman's charms, often making reference to her wits, brains, and less obvious body parts (some ...
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Fans of Scott Schuman's street style blog The Sartorialist—which posts elegant, color-saturated photographs of enviably chic individuals loitering on sidewalks from Moscow to Rio—should check out the Pipeline's spot-on guide to ''getting shot by Scott.'' The blog presents a handy flow chart explaining which looks catch his eye. (If you're a man, ...
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If we are what we Google, then Google Hot Trends—an hourly rundown of search terms ''that experience sudden surges in popularity''—is the Web's best cultural barometer. Here's a sampling of today's top searches. (Rankings on Hot Trends list current as of 9 a.m.)
No. 85: ''who died yesterday.'' Though far down on the rankings, this search term ...
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When Michael Jackson introduced the moonwalk in 1983, people freaked—and then immediately began imitating him. We haven't stopped. Slate V has collected video footage of our best attempts to top the King of Pop in this great video.
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The Big Money Editor James Ledbetter offers this remembrance of Charlie's Angels icon Farrah Fawcett, who died today of cancer at age 62:
It must be next to impossible for anyone under the age of 30 to understand that there was a time when Farrah Fawcett Majors was actually cool. Looking now at that iconic mid-’70s poster, anyone can see the ...
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Variety reported yesterday that the Steven Soderbergh/Brad Pitt production of Moneyball, Michael Lewis' great book about how Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane used statistics to change baseball, was closed down just 96 hours before shooting began. Apparently, Columbia Pictures chief Amy Pascal read Soderbergh's latest revision to the script, ...
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We've just posted this week's Culture Gabfest, in which Steve Metcalf, June Thomas, and I discuss the awesomeness of Stephen Colbert's trip to Iraq, the oddness of the ''guest editor'' gig, the resurgence of Broadway, the amateurism of the Tonys, the death of GM, and whether the culture of the American road has hit a dead end. Click here to get ...
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If we are what we Google, then Google Hot Trends—an hourly rundown of search terms ''that experience sudden surges in popularity''—is the Web's best cultural barometer. Here's a sampling of today's top searches. (Rankings on Hot Trends list current as of 9 a.m.)
No. 1 ''air france flight status'': Six of this morning's top 10 Google searches are ...
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Welcome to Brow Beat, a new blog where Slate's editors and critics will be writing about movies, music, television, books, advertising, fashion, and anything else you might call culture, whether highbrow or low. Our critics will be able to write more frequently about happenings on their beats—this week, for example, movie critic Dana Stevens will ...
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People breaks the news that the Obamas have settled on a breed for their new pup: Portuguese water dog. In January, the president revealed that two breeds were in contention, the Portuguese water dog and the Labradoodle (a cross between the poodle and the Labrador retriever). Allow me to posit a theory about these choices: The Obamas really wanted ...