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11/29/11
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Current Affairs

Tobey Maguire and the Succès de Scandale

We’d like to congratulate Tobey Maguire on a scandal well played.

As we learned a few months ago, Maguire was said to be participating in high-stakes card games run by con man Bradley Ruderman and a made-for-Page-Six bombshell named Molly Bloom. Now, he’s agreed to pay back $80,000 (of the more than $300,000 that he won) to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of investors who had been bilked by Ponzi-schemer Ruderman.

In Maguire’s case, it’s what we call the good kind of controversy. Here’s why»

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11/22/11
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Filmic

The Shawl Collar of the Class Voyeur

Gatsby Shawl Collar

While Leo’s suit gets all the attention, we’ve got a different favorite from the latest batch of Gatsby pics: Nick Carraway/Tobey Maguire’s gloriously broad shawl collar. It’s remarkably close to the Ovadia & Sons cardigan that’s been making a splash in menswear circles lately—although finding that rounded club collar shirt outside of a custom shop would be quite a trick.

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10/26/11
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Gatsby Lives

Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby adaptation continues to trundle along, and a few set photos leaked out this week to prove it. By the looks of it, Tobey Maguire makes a pretty good Nick Carraway, right down to the summer suit. Just don’t try that straw boater at home.

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08/29/11
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Well Pressed

The Kempt Guide to the September Issues

Esquire September Issue

As you may have noticed from the stack of glossy pages threatening to break your coffee table, it’s time for the September issues—the print-world primer for everything that happens in style for the next six months.

So we took it upon ourselves to methodically flip through GQ, Esquire and Details (which add up to roughly the page count of Crime and Punishment) and provide scientific analysis.

Brace yourselves…»
 

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02/24/10
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The Fischer Boom

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If you didn’t recognize the well-dressed man in the picture, he’s the grandmaster of grandmasters, Bobby Fischer, and you may be hearing a lot more about him in the months ahead.

Word leaked today that Tobey Maguire’s producing a film version of the Fischer’s 1972 match with Boris Spassky—quite possibly the most dramatic moment of his career—and it might just the posthumous revival that chess’s most famous disappearing act needs.

In praise of Mr. Fischer»

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