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...In 1956, he was recruited as Marlene Dietrich’s arranger, conductor and accompanist. The German star doted on him. “You don’t vant my autograph. You vant his!”...
...My style icon is Marlene Dietrich, who had a European mindset long before the days of the EU....
...Dietrich Bonhoeffer? Jane Addams? W E B Du Bois? Mahatma Gandhi?...
...Kolodko, I.B. Tauris, RRP$21.66/£16.09 The rise of China is the greatest political and economic event of our era....
...SoftBank Ventures is now buying into the concept, participating in an additional $30m financing to bring Carro’s Series B round to a total of $90m....
...Letter in response to this article: Amazon’s ploy has given it a huge advantage over competitors / From John B Griffiths, Seattle, WA, US...
...“While we have done better than some of our rivals in working on big deals on the continent, we have not invested significantly in the UK recently or added to headcount,” Dietrich Becker, head of PWP’s European...
...Ellis at 28 was a stunner in the Dietrich mould with peroxide hair, heavy eyelids and tiny waist....
...Letter in response to this article: Don’t miss McDormand’s unbeatable performance / From W B Carnochan, Portola Valley, CA, US...
...He became a kind of Buddha in B-movie horror films, though for director Roger Corman he could still sometimes conjure the magical-mysterious....
...But plot well-turned and pace moodily rubato, as in the best kind of B-movie....
...That testament against wartime rationing was designed by Edith Head (once Banton’s assistant) in a film directed by Mitchell Leisen, who began his career doing costumes for Cecil B DeMille....
...It is the Marlene Dietrich of bungalows....
...“For the moment, China is extremely into very high-end, pricey goods – and the complete opposite,” says Claus-Dietrich Lahrs, chief executive and chairman of Hugo Boss, the luxury menswear group....
...He also talks about working with Dietrich – who knew better than anyone how she ought to be photographed....
...Friend lacks the variety to present Chéri as more than a pampered toyboy, so Pfeiffer is left making most of the shots....
...Exploring how men’s fashion can reflect an era’s notion of the ideal man, as well as considering the effect that a woman can have in men’s garb (don’t miss Marlene Dietrich’s dinner jacket), An Ideal Man...
...Goerner brought out the anguish of Janacek’s forbidding Piano Sonata and offered a stunning account of Liszt’s Sonata in B minor that was demonic in its intensity....
...But Loose is smashing: high-tech R&B beats, blaring Latin pop and one of the singles of the year, the mighty “Maneater”....
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