Hints and tips:
...“I used to forget the tiniest everyday things: I’d put eggs on to boil, I’d forget. Papers were stacked four feet high on my desk,” said Davis, 74....
...Actor, singer and writer Billy Porter is expert at making a grand entrance....
...“In England, I’d become too well-known as a Tatler photographer,” Jones says of his move to the US. “It was wonderful to be invisible again.”...
...He also consults for Garesio in Serralunga d’Alba. Colombo’s 2022 Langhe Nebbiolo has more class than many much more expensive Barolos, though his 2020 Barolo was the star of his range....
...A new biopic, starring Billy Porter as Baldwin, was announced this year....
...been locked up by “bad people” who were demanding thousands of pounds, the Times’s Billy Kenber revealed....
...She also toured intensively as a performer, leading the Carla Bley Band with Mantler, Swallow, the trombonist Roswell Rudd and drummer D Sharpe....
...“No one knew where we were – we’d head out and not be back until teatime,” he says of those years....
...At the start of this year, though, I felt a strong urge to embrace everything I’d normally reject. I have no idea why: perhaps it was the “serious person” gene finally kicking in. Whatever....
...How could I possibly be in Liza Minnelli’s suite in the Savoy Hotel and Sammy Davis Jr walks in? I feel quite removed from the reality of it....
...I’d advise coming here for something more substantial than a flat white....
...“Sure, saving £100 on wine a month might save me £1,200 a year, but that’s a drop in the ocean compared with what I’d need for a house deposit,” says Billy Ford, a 29-year-old data scientist and wine hobbyist...
...He made Pippa Middleton’s wedding dress in 2017, and dressed Billy Porter in a gold-feathered bodice and skirt, incorporating a digital print of the Cupola Room at Kensington Palace, for the 2020 Academy...
...“I’m obsessed with fully carpeted rooms,” says Billy Cotton, the American designer behind the creative, often flamboyant interiors of artists including Cindy Sherman and Lisa Yuskavage....
...Waking up in hospital one weekend in July 2017, Davis was informed by doctors that he’d lost sight in one eye in an accident....
...I have to negotiate with a tyrannical maître d’ to get a stage view. Someone at my table orders a shrimp cocktail; the table behind me drinking Martinis....
...Between the quaint backdrop and imaginative premise, you’d be forgiven for expecting a breezy show full of gentle whimsy....
...“Tennis is not a 100m race, I’d say it’s an 800m to 1,500m race, sometimes even longer....
...“I’d be shocked if they don’t do a sizeable AI deal this year, because there’s an AI arms race going on, and Apple is not going to be on the outside looking in.”...
...“I thought I’d be designing chairs and lighting; music was a pipe dream,” he says....
...“Maybe I will make it to five years,” he’d say....
...I’m thinking they’d go nicely in the bedroom. The beauty staple I’m never without is a hot shower....
...We'd love to hear from you. What do you like (or not)? What topics should we tackle? Email the team at workingit@ft.com or Isabel directly at isabel.berwick@ft.com....
...We fall into an embrace or, as he’d probably describe it, “a polite hug”....
...I’d love to own one of her energising and mesmerising line drawings in sap-green watercolour ink, which were first shown in London back in 2017....
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