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...The ebullient Jean-Charles Boisset of Burgundy arrived at Raymond in 2009, Chanel Inc bought St Supéry in 2015 and the next year the Tesserons of Ch Pontet Canet in Bordeaux bought Robin Williams’ winery...
...At the bottom of a street lined with oleanders, the huge stone house where Baldwin hosted Nina Simone, Ray Charles and Maya Angelou had been redeveloped into a luxury apartment complex....
...The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr....
...Ray Charles, Édith Piaf and Grace Jones all performed at Forte’s Capannina club where, local legend goes, the Negroni cocktail was first concocted for Count Negroni....
...Best of all is a podium of objects from eccentric poet Edward James’s house, with its Dalí-designed champagne glass lamp, that sofa and a carpet woven with his wife’s footprints....
...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...Stoner was active in the Ku Klux Klan, described Adolf Hitler as “too moderate” and served as an attorney for James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King Jr’s assassin....
...“All of our heroes were black, from Ray Charles to Lightnin’ Hopkins, any way you want to go. Stevie Wonder was one of them . . . When I was 19 I tried to emigrate to Houston, Texas....
...Plus the city itself is super-gay, ostentatious and moody like David Lynch or Lana Del Ray.”...
...Dubbed the “black Beverly Hills” for its wealthy residents, including legends such as Ray Charles and Tina Turner, the community where Rae grew up serves as the canvas for Insecure, the HBO show that catapulted...
...Jonathan Ray is drinks editor of The Spectator and author of “Drink More Fizz!” (October 2017, Quadrille)...
...American entertainment executives mingled with former Kremlin apparatchiks as film stars sipped champagne....
...Fashion week in Paris typically sees Charles de Gaulle airport inundated with the shiny suitcases, which retail from €375 up to more than €800....
...In the 1950s, both Harry Bertoia and Charles and Ray Eames launched wire furniture....
...At home, it follows that the chef’s kitchen is often an anti-kitchen — a place where Michel Roux Jr, for example, would far rather eat sardines on toast than lobster mousse with champagne sauce....
...Dad once used Lithgow Jr as a guinea pig for experiments in childhood trauma. Now Mrs Lithgow Jr (Lolita Davidovich) is worried her spouse is doing the same....
...Shelves are packed with art and fashion books, and the room is full of furniture from celebrated designers such as Charles and Ray Eames, Verner Panton, Jean Prouvé and Isamu Noguchi....
...Michel Roux Jr’s pear tart with stilton and pistachios Pears are a well-known accompaniment to cheese but this recipe takes it to another level....
...Prince Charles has his own wine adviser, Adam Brett-Smith of Corney & Barrow, who is also a RHWC member....
...Almost six hours after I walk through the door of his music studio in Hollywood he is still going strong, stream-of-consciousness style, riffing about gamma rays, light spectrum ranges and how a sound recording...
...As Seagram grew, so did Sam’s family (his sons Edgar and Charles are now reputed to be worth a combined $5bn)....
...Much of the value in Goodman’s account lies in interviews with the likes of Ahmet Ertegun, the late industry legend who steered artists from Ray Charles to Led Zeppelin, and the book is full of anecdotes...
...Tenor Rafael Dávila, in beefy voice, contributes a sturdy portrayal of Joan’s king and would-be lover, Charles VII....
...Charles de Gaulle 21. Queen Victoria 22. Joschka Fischer, German Green party politician 23. Hillary Clinton 24. Golda Meir, Israeli PM, 1969-74 25. Martin Luther King Jr.26....
...Charles and, for one memorably surreal duet, Andy Williams....
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