Hints and tips:
...When it comes to decorating a house, Kathryn M Ireland believes you have to trust your instincts — which is something a lot of people find hard do, she says....
...The First Wives Club Bette, Diane and Goldie dancing to “You Don’t Own Me”. A cracking way to end a movie (spoiler) of three women having overcome the misery their husbands put them through....
...Admittedly I’m older than the target age group, but I’m not sure I want a metallic glow. It sounds a bit robot-chic....
...Matt — I’m sure somebody already suggested Andrew Wylie in the Guardian?...
...A talented artist dressed fabulously or someone self-important who makes extravagant demands for things such as fig-scented candles or pink M&Ms backstage?...
...She was Bette Davis, Joseph L Mankiewicz and Darryl F Zanuck rolled into one. But it may be a key aspect of her staying power....
...But I’m still not to be had for the price of a cocktail, like a salted peanut.” Even Bette Davis couldn’t fight age and its cruel combination of dwindling stamina and caricatured mannerisms....
...Born in 1942, Robert Michael Nesmith was raised by his single parent, Bette, an upbringing he characterised as “dirt poor, just miserable”....
...The first time, she had just become a colourist after years as Bette Midler’s assistant, and now she tends to the tresses of every major actress and pop star....
...There have been too many black showrunners who have had to shoulder the burden of making these big declarations of: I’m going to hire more women or I’m gonna hire more black people....
...I’m very proud to own it....
...He dressed Hollywood in couture before that was a thing – Bette Midler and Faye Dunaway wore Lacroix, as did the wives of M&A magnates and corporate raiders: Gayfryd Steinberg, wife of Saul; Blaine Trump...
...Last year’s FX TV drama series Feud: Bette and Joan highlighted the next phase of her career, the third, brave comeback co-starring opposite her rival Bette Davis in the camp horror Whatever Happened to...
...To my left, Dorothy Parker, to my right, Bette Davis, and underneath me, because I’m in his lap, Idris Elba. Who would you choose to play you in a film about your life?...
...Bette Davis was being back-lit, eye-lifted and de-sneered back when God was a boy....
...“I’m making images of things that might be disgusting even, like strings of spit, but I’m trying to make them gorgeous.”...
...Now she shares interview space with Bette Midler, Mick Jagger, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder . . . If you film them, they will come....
...A postcard from Anita Brookner leaning against Judy Garland’s actual 1950s white leather address book, open on the page with Bette Davis, Sammy Davis Jr and Doris Day side by side?...
...“For all the movies, I’m still just a theatre rat,” he admits, cheerfully. “I’m never happier anywhere in my life than when I’m in a rehearsal room for a play.”...
...Bette Davis sagely said that “old age ain’t no place for sissies”....
...And with a priceless expression during an exit, Debbie Lee Jones as M’s secretary shows even small parts can be indelible....
...(I’m not, it transpires, Bette Davis.) “Oh how awful!” they chorus. “Oh my God!”; “You poor thing!”; “That’s rough.”...
...I’m writing this before December 31 but I’m already thinking of New Year’s Eve parties and the inevitable expectations that come with them. I’ll be ringing in 2009 on the South American pampas....
...His tiered metallic python wedges were worn by everyone from Bianca Jagger to Bette Midler, David Bowie and Jackie Onassis....
...Bette Midler is widely regarded as one of the great all-round entertainers....
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