John Currin Paints Jennifer Lawrence for Vogue September Issue
The actress, painted by American artist John Currin, will appear on the 125h anniversary issue of Vogue in September.
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Aaron Eckhart: The Hero With at Least Two Faces
Aaron Eckhart wants to show me some skin. We’re tucked away in the back of L’Ermitage hotel in Beverly Hills in the early afternoon, where Eckhart is nursing a Diet Coke, despite engaging the sommelier for a good 10 minutes in fluent French. The 48-year-old actor—known for his roles as charming if morally ambiguous characters, like Harvey Dent (or Two-Face) in The Dark Knight, a slick tobacco lobbyist in Thank You for Smoking and the sociopathic Neil LaBute’s In the Company of Men—sticks his arm out for me to inspect. He’s smiling in a way that underlines the basic premise of his appeal: With that cleft chin, that matinee idol swoosh of blond hair, the rugged stubble, who could resist taking Eckhart up on the chance to touch him?
The Bad Plus Tests Jazz’s Boundaries by Exploding the Art of the Cover Song
“There’s no road map for how a jazz band approaches this music. The cool thing is, that means we can do anything we want.”
