Hints and tips:
...Being friends with Hank Medina is a dangerous game. Better known by his pen name Litquidity, he is always quietly looking for content — and even your attire could turn you into a viral meme....
...One friend notes the extreme lengths she’d go to find a particular item, or how she’d buy multiple versions of a white T-shirt, which she’d wear under a slip dress or black trousers....
...I’d hoped he’d go for his own creation — a Diet Cokagne, which went viral on TikTok earlier this year. “It’s not bad, actually,” he laughs. “A little champagne and a Diet Coke.”...
...I wish they’d say, ‘I’ve seen your sculpture, and they are wonderful but, no, they tell me, I still wear your clothes from 20 years ago, or my daughter does’.”...
...“Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy immediately popped into my mind.” She continued: “I think there’s so much impact in taking a breath.”...
...Pantomime isn’t exactly the first thing you’d expect at a hip-hop festival....
...“Whenever people left they’d try to get Hank’s folder to take wherever they were going.” “You could tell he was on to something even before he started the account....
...“I don’t think you’d ever know that it was him behind Litquidity, even if you met him or he told you point blank....
...“Ultimately Schofield’s affair is not very important . . . if you screwed up the handling of it, you’d be in trouble, but Carolyn hasn’t screwed it up,” said one senior industry figure....
...Manet/Degas Musée d’Orsay, Paris; Metropolitan Museum (to January 7) The European art story of 2023 is the rise and rise of Paris....
...Zurich-based Carolyn Tear and her family had skied all the high-end Alpine ski resorts: Zermatt, Kitzbuhel, Verbier, Val d’Isère and Courchevel 1850....
...It’s a lovely read (and Hanks is as thoughtful as you’d hope). How old is too old for your profile pic?...
...I’ve escaped the winter gloom for a weekend on the Côte d’Azur during Menton’s Fête du Citron, a celebration of all things citrus held every February....
...Joining Harrington, John Sherba (violin) and Hank Dutt (viola) a year ago was cellist Paul Wiancko....
...“You’d have one ship on patrol like you saw in [the Tom Hanks movie] Captain Phillips and so when there was some kind of problem, they’d come respond,” says Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute...
...You probably have to laugh, else you’d cry. But Alphaville, which often does both, was most interested by this section from the SEC’s order: Wha . . . ?...
...An Anderson sceptic might suggest you’d have an existential crisis too if you’d made the same film 11 times. But even haters will miss him when he’s gone. Sometimes my eyes rolled too....
...I blame Tom Hanks....
...Within three days, he’d bought the land he was shown. He bought the plot next door a year later, too....
...Musk’s service is beginning to take off in other exclusive vacation hotspots such as the Maldives and Antibes on the Côte d’Azur....
...We walk in silence for a few minutes and then suddenly he asks me if I remember the Tom Hanks film Cast Away. On his island, Hanks has a volleyball called Wilson, his only companion, whom he loves....
...“I’m here for Hank Paulson,” I tell the maître d’ at Le Bernardin. He doesn’t bat an eye....
...“Crime was the issue,” said Hank Sheinkopf, a political strategist....
...Certainly I’d be interested to see the stats on trials lost by defendants in aviator glasses....
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