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...Inevitably, the pandemic has made me think a great deal about love and grief — so I’m letting my eight-year-old son hand out peanuts and olives (my fantasy, my rules), which allows him to meet my dad....
...“I’m only kidding myself when I go through the motions of cooking protein,” he wrote. “All I ever really want is sugar.” Who doesn’t feel that way at least once a day?...
...Jean Simmons’s Estella had a perfect cruel twinkle; the new Estella, in grown-up form at least, is a soap commercial on legs....
...The show traces portrayals of Auerbach’s lover Estella Olivia West (“E.O.W.”) over two decades, from a sensuous figure reclining on her eiderdown to the final shockingly compressed, tense, angular profile...
...but potent backstory: jilted on her wedding day by her fiancé Compeyson, in shock and humiliation she kept on her wedding dress, battened down her home, left the wedding feast to rot and raised her ward Estella...
...Auerbach continued a relationship with Estella West (the “EOW” of many early portraits), which had begun when he was 17, she 32....
...Alexander Korda costume movies like The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) or David Lean’s Great Expectations (1946), in which John Mills was scared pipless by Finlay Currie’s Magwitch and Jean Simmons as Estella...
...“I’m thrilled, as this will enable us to compete fully on the international market,” says Christie’s European chairman François Curiel....
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