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...After striking up a friendship with the ailing film star in the late 1990s, Bailey began visiting Brando at his Beverly Hills home....
...The Warners of the 1930s and ’40s was talked of as a kingdom, and Jack the autocratic king; his palace a neo-Georgian Beverly Hills mansion larger than that of any other mogul....
...But that image of innocence and ignorance, included in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new exhibition, Cars: Accelerating the Modern World, acts as a salutary jolt to the system....
...Rice’s staging fizzes with irrepressible life and mischief: here love blossoms too between station staff Myrtle (Lucy Thackeray) and Albert (Dean Nolan) and their younger counterparts Beryl (Beverly Rudd...
...“We do so many more things with our brands now — events, films, festivals, restaurants . . . there are so many different channels,” says Albert Read, managing director of Condé Nast Britain....
...Albert Cousins, a deputy district attorney, is an uninvited guest who arrives bearing a bottle of gin, a drink that laces its juniper scent throughout this wonderful novel. Cousins surveys the scene....
...The nearby village of Rolle is home to the country’s most exclusive school, Le Rosey, where alumni include the Aga Khan and King Albert II of Belgium....
...“The negativity was growing,” says Michael Rapino, Live Nation’s chief executive at the company’s Beverly Hills headquarters, when asked about relations with the Hyde Park operator....
...“Prince Albert gave Queen Victoria as a wedding present porcelain flower jewellery, with gold beads and it was also fashionable in the 1940s....
...The ewer, dated 1798 and inscribed “Property of the first church in Beverly” is estimated at $200,000-$300,000....
...Leigh’s Abigail’s Party (1977) is his most famous play because of the central performance by Alison Steadman as Beverly, the suburban hostess from hell....
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