Hints and tips:
...The question strikes you watching Dreaming Walls, a slim, ethereal documentary portrait of New York’s fabled Chelsea Hotel....
...What the latest talks show is that investors aren’t just eyeing up the biggest global brands, following the £2.5bn auction of Chelsea FC and €1.2bn sale of AC Milan this year....
...Birkin was a shy 21-year-old Chelsea-raised starlet, trapped in an unhappy marriage with the British composer John Barry and mother to a one-year-old daughter, when she arrived in Paris in 1968....
...“It’s our godless civilisation approaching zero point,” said its review of 1966’s Chelsea Girls, “[It’s] the same terror and hardness that is burning Vietnam”....
...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....
...Under the Clintons, the Blue Room was restored in Monroe’s favoured style....
...The 110-year-old, 282-room Plaza, which has hosted celebrities such as The Beatles and Marilyn Monroe, is operated by Fairmont and was formerly owned by Donald Trump, the US presidential candidate....
...show Made in Chelsea....
...According to Shirley Bassey they are forever, Marilyn Monroe sang that they were “a girl’s best friend” and Zsa Zsa Gabor once said: “I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back”....
...flat styles, including Lanvin’s iconic ballet slippers (£325) and androgynous loafers (£470, Net-a-Porter); Maison Martin Margiela’s distressed gold brogues (£565); Manolo Blahnik’s goes-with-anything Chelsea...
...One day I remember opening the doors here and there was Marilyn Monroe looking straight at me. I always call it sitting by the river of art.”...
...The exception, in 1994, was a supposed sex garden – a rubber bed and a reference to Marilyn Monroe – but it somehow lacked allure....
...Adapted from ‘A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Game of Thrones Companion Cookbook’ (HarperVoyager, US $35), by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel and Sariann Lehrer...
...We were much taken with a cupcake from Cake Boy, topped by a square of white chocolate bearing a pouting image of Marilyn Monroe....
...Not like Kirk Douglas – he named them all, Marlene Dietrich, bleedin’ Marilyn Monroe, everybody!” As for the films, he says, touching every piece of wood in the vicinity, they keep rolling in....
...themes such as Marilyn Monroe, Campbell soup cans and colourful flowers....
...Monroe, Campbell soup cans and colourful flowers....
...You lived at the Chelsea Hotel in New York in the late 1960s. Tell me about that....
...Bamford, 61, speaks slowly and carefully in a soft, low voice that’s part Marilyn Monroe whisper and part Joanna Lumley smoothness....
...Nowhere has this cultural mission been more obvious than at the Royal Court Theatre in Chelsea, London, which next year celebrates its 50th anniversary at the vanguard of international playwrighting....
...be called Project Monroe?...
...This is all complemented by some original paintings from French and Spanish artists as well as a Warhol print of Marilyn Monroe....
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