Entries from May 2008


How a professional photo touch-up can improve you looks - but is it ethical?


May 25th, 2008

Pascal Dangin is the retouching genius for the worlds top glossies
So surprise, surprise — it’s not just great genes, talent and contacts that help budding starlets and their more famous friends grace the covers of the world’s glossiest magazines. According to The New Yorker, they have another secret weapon: retoucher extraordinaire Pascal Dangin.
With his painterly [...]

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New York: Join us for a reading/signing


May 25th, 2008

Wednesday, June 4th
7:00 PM
BORDERS
461 Park Ave.
New York, NY   10022
212-980-6785

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THE STORY SO FAR…


May 21st, 2008

The book’s here.  FedExed from New York.  Pristine, with un-thumbed pages.  A cover without a coffee cup ring.  Dry square corners as yet unsoaked by a reading in the bath. It begs to be scuffed up a little, in someone else’s hands, a stranger reading it on a train, because then it will really exist, [...]

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The next miracle worker cream? Olay!


May 18th, 2008

There’s a new wonder cream in town - and this time you can afford it.
There is a scene in Marian Keyes’s hugely successful novel Anybody Out There? in which the beauty PR is forced to present yet another face cream to yet another jaded beauty editor, to somehow convince her that it is worth the [...]

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