17 women in Venezuela have died after having illegal buttock injections The practice is carried out in illegal makeshift surgeries 'Dr Gus' is a practitioner and performed the injections on a 20-year-old patient for ABC News cameras In the U.S. there have been deaths from black market buttocks injections in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Pennsylvania, Nevada and New York

By Alex Greig

PUBLISHED: 14:20 EST, 15 March 2014 | UPDATED: 15:06 EST, 15 March 2014

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The trend for curvaceous rear ends shows no sign of abating, with women across the U.S. and the world risking their lives for black market procedures to make their bottoms bigger.

Deaths from black market buttocks injections have been reported in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Pennsylvania, Nevada and New York. An interior decorator in Mississippi faces trial in the deaths of two women who were injected at her house.

In Venezuela, more than a dozen women have died from botched butt injections, but that hasn't stopped the illegal procedure being performed by practitioners such as 'Dr Gus,' who, for $300, will inject young women's rears with biopolymers in his Caracas apartment.

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Gunvor (Gunny) Inga-Britt Tiburzi, 93, of Pompano Beach, Fla. and a longtime resident of Ridgefield died with family members at her side on March 3.

Ms. Tiburzi was born in Stockholm, Sweden and immigrated to the United States in the 1930s. She was an accomplished artist, model, interior decorator and homemaker.

She is survived by her daughter Anita M. Tiburzi- Johnson, son Allan R. Tiburzi and daughter-in-law Karen N. Tiburzi, daughter Bonnie Tiburzi Caputo and son-in-law Bruce F. Caputo and grandchildren, Wendy C. Tiburzi Yancey, James W. Johnson, A. Anthony Caputo, B. Britt Caputo and five great-grandchildren.

Ms. Tiburzi is predeceased by August R. Tiburzi and her grandson Michael A. Tiburzi.

A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday March 22, at St. Martin Episcopal Church, 140 S.E. 28 Ave., Pompano Beach, FL. Donations may be made in her name to St. Jude Childrens Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN. 38105

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Fifteen Central Park West is New Yorks most exclusive address, an aerie of hedgefunders and celebrities, where a penthouse costs $40 million and a wine cellar costs $80,000 more.

In researching my book, The House of Outrageous Fortune, I learned that F. Scott Fitzgerald was right: The rich are different.

Heres a peek inside the $1 billion building:

The doormen at 15 Central Park West.Photo: Angel Chevrestt

A small army waits on 15 Central Park Wests residents.

There are seven concierges, six doormen, eight white-gloved lobby attendants, three package-room attendants, eight porters, a maintenance man, four security guards, 12 part-time engineers and an administrative assistant. Six people man Fifteens lobbies by day, two each for the doors, concierge desks and lobbies. Three more work the package room, and four porters and one or two engineers are always on duty.

Working at a building like 15CPW can be lucrative. Some titans of Wall Street tip very well.

The staff was excited when Sandy Weill, former chairman of Citigroup, handed out about $90,000 in his first year. But they were disappointed after that.

In 2008, he was very generous, says a former staffer, but the second year they cut their tips in half.

An ex-staffer recalls another early move-in, a former Goldman Sachs partner. It was December 2007 and he arrived bearing gifts, Christmas tips for everyone on the staff, even though hed just met them.

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Pnina Wilkins, an interior designer and past president of Hadassah, died Feb. 22 of heart failure at Seasons Hospice in Randallstown. She was 90.

The daughter of Benjamin Laikin, a wiping cloths manufacturer, and Anna Golomb Laikin, a homemaker, Pnina Laikin was born in Baltimore and later moved with her family to Detroit.

After graduating from high school in Detroit, she attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison for a year. She left Wisconsin after she met her future husband, Stanley Wilkins, in Atlantic City, N.J., during a family vacation.

The couple married in 1943, and after living for a few years in Detroit, moved to Mount Airy and then to Pikesville in 1963.

After owning several businesses, Mr. Wilkins went to work in the automobile business in 1950 and founded Wilkins Buick Inc. in Glen Burnie in 1969, which is now Wilkins Automotive. During the 1970s, he established Wilkins Yacht Sales in Edgewater that specialized in selling Hatteras Yachts.

Mrs. Wilkins, an interior decorator, was the founder in the 1980s of Bay Country Interiors, Dibert/Wilkins Associates of Towson, that designed residential interiors and later yacht interiors.

She was a longtime member and served as president of the Baltimore chapter of Hadassah from 1975 to 1977.

A resident of Pikesville for more than 50 years, she was an accomplished pianist and studied at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. She also designed and made jewelry and her own clothes.

Later in life, she designed and produced luxurious multi-colored blankets, throws and shawls, that combined wool, silk and cotton yarns.

Mrs. Wilkins and her husband, who died in 2001, enjoyed spending time on the Arrowhead, their 61-foot yacht.

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Photo courtesy of the Kips Bay Decorator Show House

NYCThis year's Kips Bay Decorator Show House, the decades-old annual project in which interior designers kit out an absurdly lavish mansion, will take over the north wing of the Villard Mansion, an 1884 McKim, Mead & White design that was renovated in 2011 and is currently seeking retail tenants. The list of designers hasn't been announced yet, but it's safe to assume these 20+ rooms within the Renaissance-style structure will be filled to the brim with gold-leaf Venetian plaster, geometric ombr sinks, fish-themed wallpaper, and other such typical Kips Bay flourishes. The showhouse opens to the public on May 1; proceeds from ticket sales will benefit the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club youth organization. [CurbedWire Inbox]

NYCHouse Beautiful's fifth annual Chair Chase will take place this Wed., March 12 in New York. The magazine's going for an eco-friendly twist this time around: all 20 chairs are sustainably produced by manufacturers ranging from Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams to Kravet. Follow House Beautiful on Twitter (@HouseBeautiful) on Wednesday for clues about where in the city these pretty perches landas always, it's finders, keepers. More info, right this way. [CurbedWire Inbox]

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2014 - IFC Films

Ed Harris and Annette Bening

Arie Posin's romantic drama tips its hand when we see that protagonist Nikki (Annette Bening), a widowed interior decorator, has chosen posters for Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia and Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo for the house she's currently sprucing up. This is moments before she first sees Tom (Ed Harris), a dead ringer for Nikki's late husband, Garrett (also Harris).

The Face of Love is also a few color gels away from being this decade's remake of Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows, as Nikki embarks on a relationship with Tom that doesn't defy contemporary taboos about age or ethnicity but instead is borderline necrophilic, while she lies to Tom about her past and tries to hide him from her adult daughter, Summer (Jess Weixler), and Nikki's lovesick, perpetually friend-zoned neighbor, Roger (Robin Williams).

Bening and Harris have excellent chemistry, and the deeply objectified Tom gets an interior life, particularly in his touching relationship with his own, still-alive former spouse (Amy Brenneman).

Wisely shrugging off the question of how Garrett and Tom can be identical, The Face of Love becomes a study of a woman gradually losing her grip on reality, thanks to the universe playing a seriously dirty trick on her.

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Leonardo Di Caprio got one of his best lines in The Great Gatsby thanks to production designer Catherine Martin and set decorator Beverley Dunn, the two revealed at Hollywoods Egyptian Theater Mar. 1, where a near-capacity crowd braved torrential rain to hear the 2013 Oscar nominees for production design explicate their craft, presented by The Art Directors Guild in association with the American Cinematheque and THR, moderated by production designer Thomas A. Walsh and set decorator Rosemary Brandenburg.

Baz Luhrmann is never happier than when hes rearranging the flowers, said Martin. He said, We love the flowers, but we need more -- ten times more. Leo said, Oh, this is ridiculous! Where will we get all these orchids? But he got to ad lib that line, Do you think its too much? and he always gets a laugh on that, so hes happy.

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With Lurhmann, said Martin, The budget keeps getting smaller and the ideas just get bigger. And when the dp says, Well only shoot this part of the set, its a total lie.

Her production designer K.K. Barrett and set decorator Gene Serdena said director Spike Jonze objected to the rug in Joaquin Phoenixs recently divorced, commitment-phobic character Theodores apartment. Spike said, We dont know if Theodore would be able to commit to a rug,'" said Serdena. "And K.K. had a master stroke -- What if we rolled it up and kept it propped up against the wall?

I know what David [O. Russell] likes, said American Hustle production designer Judy Becker, his frequent collaborator, who with set decorator Heather Loeffler crafted 140 sets for the film, but he always wants to shoot 360 [degrees], and in a period movie that can be a challenge. Becker and Loeffler transcended the challenge, having worked on 11 films together.

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For Gravityproduction designer Andy Nicholson and set decorators Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard, the tough part was, as Nicholson put it, so many problems had to be solved that had never been done beforea total pain in the ass. To convey the characters of the six astronauts who die early in the film, so the audience never meets them, Goodwin exhaustively researched NASA photo troves and studied what kind of people want to spend their lives in space. Goodwin said the character-revealing items in the film include crazy things -- an Australian speed limit sign, car registration, postcards from all over the world, chess sets.

The cost on every prop had a point value attached to it, added Goodwin. The VFX budget was not huge, said Nicholson.

The budget on 12 Years a Slave was not huge either, and production designer Adam Stockhausen said, There was huge pressure to get it right. That was particularly tricky, said set decorator Alice Baker, because the movie had to look different than the big recent films about the same period, which used up much of the limited supply of plantation-era locations. Django was filming and filming and filming, and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Killer had been there, so I really had to beat the bushes, said Baker.

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(CNN) -- Shelves full of knickknacks, chairs piled precariously atop tables, dusty toys dangling from the ceiling and barely enough floorspace to set a foot down: It's a scene that's caused more than one shopper to flee a flea market.

"Like where your garage is just thrown up in your face? I get that." said Kristie Rackliffe, an antique dealer at the Queen of Hearts antique mall in Buford, Georgia.

But there's no need to fear the antique mall, say some thrifting pros, if you know what you're looking for and how to navigate through a seeker's paradise to get to it. Just be prepared to pay more at those fancy booths that don't require mountain climbing equipment.

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