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...This did not save it from difficulties in casting the fiendish lead roles, with both Diana Damrau and Bryan Hymel cancelling due to ill health during the rehearsal period....
...With Valentine’s Day approaching, what better time to pay homage to Cartland’s lurid sensibility and reflect on the sometimes toe-curling history of recipes and romance?...
...You had to be both gifted and incredibly stubborn to dream of following in the footsteps of a Diana Edulji, a Rachael Heyhoe Flint....
...(A small musical sidestep finds soul singer Diana Ross playing Billie Holiday in the 1972 biopic Lady Sings The Blues.)...
...Diana Nneka Atuona is modest but driven as a new playwright....
...Dubai remained their home until his death on St Valentine’s Day. He and Allen are now interred in the same corner of the emirate’s desert Christian burial ground....
...At Oyster Bay, where he lived with his partner, British diplomat Valentine Lawford, and, in later years, his adopted son Ricki, Horst was a convivial host....
...The same sense of invention that we see throughout his life provides a clue to a man who was to create, in the pages of 1960s Vogue, under the editorship of legendary Diana Vreeland, a contrived yet perceptively...
...Dubai remained their home until his death on Valentine’s day. He and Allen are now interred in the same corner of the emirate’s desert Christian burial ground....
...Diana Lynn Thompson has accompanied her signs with short poems which bring out meaning....
...The music, with Diana Krall on piano, lopes by in a warm, respectful fashion....
...Sure, the last designer to do such a hotly anticipated gown, Elizabeth Emmanuel, of Princess Diana meringue fame, eventually went bankrupt, but before that — wow, the notoriety!...
...Waters himself has released an eclectic compilation of Christmas songs as well as a Valentine’s collection called A Date with John Waters, but says another album looks unlikely as there are few record stores...
...As for the designers most closely linked to current royal family weddings, Robinson Valentine (who made Camilla’s wedding dress) and the Emanuels (who made Princess Diana’s), not to mention the British fashion...
...The haughty music master who objects to his pupils’ opera being placed in a double bill with a commedia dell’arte troupe’s “vulgar buffoonery” is here played by Martin Gantner, while Diana Damrau plays saucy...
...After all, the wise thing would have been to declare herself a champion of young British fashion, thus avoiding unfortunate Caroline Charles/ Robinson Valentine-inspired comparisons to her predecessors,...
...There was Diana Vreeland, the legendary style maven. She turned red lipstick into characterful stuff. It was a happy marriage; they suited each other with their boldness....
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