Hints and tips:
...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....
...It’s true that his style and vision weren’t entirely his own — a little Andy Warhol, a lot of Joan Didion — but he forged them into idiosyncratic, brittle narratives of beautiful young Generation X-ers in...
...Alas, Hope has to marry rich Lord Evelyn Oakleigh to rescue the family finances, while Hope’s mother, Evangeline (Felicity Kendal, pleasingly beady and bonkers), has caught the eye of Billy’s boss....
...Art belongs in galleries, where anyone can see it — but if I had to pick something to hang on my wall, I’d have a Joan Mitchell or a Helen Frankenthaler....
...They were designs for textiles from the 1930s and 1940s that were never realised, as war and motherhood intervened between Joan Evelyn Thomson, known as Jet, and her professional ambitions....
...Joan Roca has a very good friendship with him and definitely would love to visit and enjoy his performance some day.”...
...By the time I arrived, we had realised the comedy of errors for which Evelyn Waugh could not have written a better Scoop if he had tried!...
...In Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies (1930) the Bright Young Things – a pack of rich, aristocratic waste-of-spacers – briefly find themselves living in a house together....
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