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...You might understand it as Bette Davis and Joan Crawford’s monstrous siblings in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?; as a drag queen’s stock in trade; and certainly as anything covered in rhinestones....
...Routine business took him to the CBS offices, where another lawyer, Clive Davis — later to become an equally legendary label boss — suggested he took a job....
...These included Bill Davis, the colourful editor of the satirical weekly Punch, who offered to launch a clubby, aspirational magazine for British Airways, sharing advertising revenue with the airline....
...You see Louise Brooks, Gloria Grahame, Susan Hayward, even hints of Elizabeth Taylor. She started wilful and stayed so....
...Sic transit Gloria Steinem. SM: Do you think she remembers that you likened her to a sadistic nurse? BJ: Not at her age. Anyway, she knows what I said about Trump. SM: Yes, we’re seeing him later....
...Gloria Cheng plays solo piano works by six of the most celebrated, from Don (The Matrix) Davis to John (Star Wars) Williams....
...Ralston Crawford, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Elsie Driggs, Louis Lazowick, Charles Sheeler — Piano has clearly studied the art as well as the city, the lumpy over-engineering of the High Line, the filigree...
...As they grew older, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford were reduced to the grotesquerie of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?...
...Over the course of our three-hour conversation he eats only some raw vegetables brought in by his sister-in-law, Gloria....
...Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis, Vintage, RRP£12.99 Davis retells the story of George Mallory’s doomed bid to conquer Everest – and uses it to examine...
..., although we tasters are saved much of the work by the fact that bordeaux merchant Bill Blatch of Vintex assembles all the samples, Rob Chase of Adnams opens and double decants them, and Aidan Bell of Davis...
...Zonca, essaying a pell-mell verismo, produces something resembling Gloria mugged by A Woman Under the Influence....
...Science: The Definitive Visual Guide Edited by Adam Hart-Davis Dorling Kindersley, £30 Hart-Davis and the DK team have produced the ultimate coffee-table – sorry, highly illustrated – book about science...
...Others, such as Michael Comte’s Marilynesque, pointlessly sugary shot of Geena Davis, are nauseatingly glib....
...We remember them for “Tainted Love”, their darkly subversive cover of a northern soul number originally sung by Marc Bolan’s wife Gloria Jones, but that only hinted at Almond’s proclivities....
...It was hard luck on the youngish Philippe Fénelon that his new Gloria had its British premiere in the same concert as Poulenc’s Gloria – not to mention Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, which is so much better...
...It was like watching Gloria all over again....
...With luck, he’ll see the spirit in playing Davis Cup for sometime yet....
...He chose the Countess Gloria von Schonburg-Glauchau, 34 years his junior and from an impoverished family: she is said to have (gasp!) once waitressed to keep herself afloat. Gloria was good fun....
...LANDALE’S 21st-CENTURY CAUTIONARY TALES by James Landale Canongate ₤7.99, 250 pages “Gloria, who made the wrong call” and “Julia, who shopped until she was dropped” join 16 other hapless characters in...
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