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    Style Icon of the Season: Cousin Eddie in Christmas Vacation

    18 Dec ’13 /

    He is the whitest of the white trash, the kind of man who dumps raw sewage in a storm drain and kidnaps your boss as a Christmas present. And the only man to ever combine a leather belt with a bathrobe. Randy Quaid has played lovable moocher ‘Cousin Eddie’ in four separate National Lampoon films, but his most famous performance still resides at yuletide. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989, directed by Jeremiah C. Chechik) has weathered years of apathy to become something of a seasonal favourite. Watching Chevy Chase’s bipolar family man Clark Griswold lose his rag every December is now a festive tradition . Yet Clark is not really…

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  • Clothes from Fantasy & Sci-fi

    Costume Designer Michael Kaplan Confirmed for Star Wars VII

    19 May ’13 /

    Star Trek’s Michael Kaplan confirmed as costume designer for Star Wars Episode VII.

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  • Costume Stories and Links

    Costume Stories: This Week, Game of Thrones and Liberace

    11 May ’13 /

    Pick of the week’s movie and television costume design stories.

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