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...“My grandfather became Clark Gable, my grandmother Helen Hayes, and my mother was more Joan Crawford . . . I watched these people perform these extraordinarily flamboyant ideas of gender.”...
...Pinned to her moodboard were images of Ingrid Bergman as Joan of Arc and Sorcières, a 1970s feminist magazine....
...More recently, distinctive exhibitions have spanned a freewheeling visual essay on Joan Didion, curated by writer Hilton Als with the Hammer’s chief curator Connie Butler, and a gem of an exhibition, Picasso...
...In 2011 she married her partner Maggie Butler....
...Didion and Judith Butler....
...There’s Desmond Barrit’s splendidly aloof butler and David Roberts’ repressed French chef who rebels against boiled vegetables in a wonderful tango accompanied by quivering jellies....
...and a smattering of famous names: Arthur Miller, Joan Didion, Gore Vidal and so on....
...Old songs such as “Joan of Arc” were retooled in line with Reflektor’s more groove-based sound, but the results lacked heft....
...These include pieces by Fernand Léger, Georges Braque, Joan Miró and a ceramic sculpture by the pool by Sean Scully....
...Irish theatre and literature has a long history of tackling social taboos and critiquing politics with the likes of satirist Jonathan Swift, William Butler Yeats and Sean O’Casey....
...As with the fathers of James, Jorge Luis Borges and VS Naipaul, John Butler Yeats was a failed writer....
...As they grew older, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford were reduced to the grotesquerie of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?...
..., Joan Didion, Chris Kraus and Grace Paley....
...The trend suggests not just the modern desire to be less showy with jewellery – check out the new Joan Collins look – but also, “a more relaxed, modern attitude”, says Mr Souza....
...In January, the Socialist politician Ségolène Royal – “Joan of Arc” to the satirists – found herself portrayed as a male politician competing to sell his wares against a telesales girl....
...Towards the film’s close, Joan Fontaine bumps into her former lover at the opera on her birthday, and he begs that she come see him at home....
...He married Joan Ethel Blacksley, of Fulham, west London, in 1942....
...In 2004 Vettriano’s most celebrated painting, “The Singing Butler”, sold for a staggering £744,500....
...Donald Maxwell executed her butler’s duties crisply. Alessandro Corbelli made a sly old puppy-dog of Sergeant Sulpice....
...At 102, the former butler of Joan Crawford - who served Clark Gable and Charlie Chaplin - still drives, lives on his own and twice a week attends church in his home city of Tulsa, Oklahoma....
...Wodehouse had shown a late, sudden talent for writing noir thrillers, had hit the bookstands with The Maltese Cow-Creamer or Farewell, My Butler....
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