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...The death of the Queen removed a much-loved figure who had been a constant presence in British life, outlasting 15 prime ministers and charming US presidents from Harry Truman to Joe Biden....
...Deeda Blair, the brains trustee Catherine “Deeda” Blair was born in Chicago in 1931 and made her debut into society at 18....
...Carrère, who had written several novels, decided that he wanted to write a non-fiction book about the Romand case in the vein of In Cold Blood, which he read obsessively and tried to imitate Truman Capote...
...Anyone versed in Russian history will detect a nod to Potemkin villages, the showcase façades built to impress Catherine the Great....
...Chapters are contributed by prominent central bankers, economists and economic historians including Paul Volcker, Maurice Obstfeld, Catherine R Schenk, Edwin M Truman, James Boughton and Harold James....
...The celebrities used to be more appealing, because they were Catherine Deneuve, Mia Farrow and Candice Bergen. Ali MacGraw did Vogue covers. They were still celebrities....
...Wickstead has dressed Samantha Cameron and the Duchess of Cambridge, and her show based on Truman Capote’s “swans” – socialites such as C.Z....
...(He was still married to Catherine of Aragón, the king’s daughter, which probably explains it.)...
...Generally, the co-writer/director Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Master and Commander) resists the story’s potential for heart-racing excitement....
...Eisenhower 1956: The President’s Year of Crisis: Suez and the Brink of War, by David A Nichols, Simon & Schuster, RRP£17.50 Eisenhower’s 1953-1961 presidency, sandwiched between Roosevelt and Truman before...
...The direction by Catherine Hardwicke makes Mel Gibson seem a madcap maverick. Which, of course, he is....
...For Catherine Keener’s Harper Lee read Sandra Bullock, who draws after her a royal train of actresses playing New York salon celebs....
...“The kind men in their nice suits and that lovely smell of silver and alligator wallets”, and maybe all the diamonds, too, cured the panic attacks from which Truman Capote’s engagingly wayward heroine suffered...
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