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...Meanwhile, in 1950s New York, Willem de Kooning was developing blocky post-cubist renderings of huge-limbed, pillow-breasted women with exaggerated Marilyn Monroe lips and fanged teeth....
...I tried the diet of America’s fattest president, William Howard Taft: a Victorian nightmare of glutinous biscuits and the sniping memoirs of his best friend and mortal enemy Major Archibald Butt....
...Monroe and Howard Hughes (both at The Beverly Hills Hotel), Peter Sellers (The Dorchester), and the endless heap of junkies, bohos, beats and celebrity bums who got stuck at New York’s Chelsea Hotel....
...Many private collectors own great examples: the magazine magnate Si Newhouse has the 1964 “Orange Marilyn” but others would die for “Shot Red Marilyn” (1964), or one of his disaster series....
...: Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier....
...Six weeks before her death in 1962, Marilyn Monroe, a frequent guest at Los Angeles’ secluded Hotel Bel-Air, posed there for the Vogue magazine shoot that would be her last....
...Aged 26, Smith married J Howard Marshall, an 89-year-old billionaire....
...Some 120 years later, Marilyn Quayle, wife of a vice-president, had a similar, if rueful, thought: “Dan would rather play golf than have sex any day.”...
...“Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend” by Jule Styne and Leo Robin, sung by Marilyn Monroe....
...Marilyn Garrow is showing an example dating from about 1900, priced at £395. Another unusual offering is a pottery dog, made in Scotland in the mid-19th century (£4,500, with John Howard)....
...Howard Shelley, concert pianist. Neil Stoddart, managing director, A.K. Stoddart the food company. Sarah Storey, Paralympic cyclist. Hugh Taylor, chief executive, Hilmar Hotel Management....
...For example, André Kertész’s “Chez Mondrian” is on sale at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York with a seven-figure price tag....
...Marilyn Sugarhood, for services to Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. Amajit Talwar, chief executive, Punch Records, the music company....
...Though the play occurs on Christmas Eve and would be perfect Christmas fare, Howard Davies’s production is a very welcome addition to the London theatre scene right now....
...WRITERS ON HOWARD HODGKIN edited by Enrique Juncosa Tate ₤14.99, 208 pages The accompanying stocking-filler....
...The political writers of the 1970s, including David Hare and Howard Brenton, aligned themselves with the working classes....
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