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...Johnny Cash was a coup for the photographer. “I remember I was in a hotel in New York lying on a bed when the phone rang and this voice said, ‘Hi, it’s Johnny Cash’ [he mimics his American drawl].”...
...Consider a marble-topped table with serried ranks of mixer cans, bottles and glasses à la David Hicks, or a bar cart or butler’s tray, which takes up barely any room at all....
...I drank my beer in the Dromonts bar under walls covered with images of Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, Johnny Hallyday, Brigitte Bardot and more....
...Original engraved menu boards on the wall that date from a bygone brasserie era, with items ranging from eau de vie and calvados to chocolat liégeois via soupe à l’oignon, set the tone for today’s still...
...Jahnke was inspired to join Homecourt having noticed an increased appreciation for premium products while working at L’Oréal....
...There can’t be that much further to go before people start hiring butlers. “I’m just off to the high street. Does Madam want anything from L’Occitane?”...
...Johnny Valencia, owner of Pechuga Vintage in Los Angeles, is running on adrenaline as he seeks to fulfil “a whirlwind of requests” on behalf of stylists for guests including singer Anitta and models Emily...
...(former chief whip, now transport secretary) and Andrew Mitchell (former chief whip, now international development minister) are there, and for the same reason faction leaders such as Tom Tugendhat and Johnny...
...She discovered “Hurt” in Johnny Cash’s version by accident while on a listening excursion into her touchstones Dylan and Cohen....
...Rockefellers and Rothschilds, Nureyev and Johnny Hallyday started to arrive. They fell for its contours, built houses, and the jet set began to come in droves....
...Undoubtedly, one of the main reasons to get you all shook up is the startling performance by relative newcomer Austin Butler as the man himself....
...That’s F-L-I-C. For more information about your rights as a tenant, do check out the Generation Rent website. Jason Butler is on Instagram and Twitter. He’s @jbthewealthman. Timi is @mrmoneyjar....
...The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin (Canongate/Penguin Press) The legendary producer of artists from Adele to Black Sabbath, Johnny Cash to Jay-Z, distils the insights of a glittering career to...
...Captained by head butler Jean-Baptiste Crabit, an earnest blue-eyed Frenchman, the team offers much more than unparalleled room service to guests....
...“It’s Johnny Depp’s favourite, and Douglas Booth loves it, and so does Stephen Fry and also [23‑year-old English model and poet] Sonny Hall.”...
...Vargas Llosa’s latest novel opens in a New York PR agency, where we meet Edward L Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew and the world’s first PR mogul....
...If I weren’t doing what I do, I would be a butler. It would give me huge satisfaction to run a great house....
...Our butler, Rudolfo, unpacked our crumpled clothes then slid our luggage under the super-king-size bed....
...Or, until recently, Knightsbridge, where a tangle of steel L-beams poked out from behind a funereal black hoarding wrapped around an entire city block beside Harvey Nichols....
...Ed was sceptical: but mid-conversation a butler announced the arrival of Black. “Let Leon wait,” Epstein said....
...Even the usual mayhem of cars, bikes and buses circling around Place de l’Étoile is being paused at weekends. I had an unfamiliar feeling recently — “FOMO”....
...But no, the butler plays along, introducing him instead as Basil Brown....
...The butler was lazy. He just threw away the wooden cases, put the bottles on a shelf and never moved them, so the labels at the front were much more soiled than the ones at the back....
...“Hello, I’m Johnny Cash,” a deep, even voice announces at the start of Bill Callahan’s new album, Gold Record....
...As befits an ex-director of the London School of Economics, he demonstrated an encyclopedic knowledge of recessions, be they “U-shaped or L-shaped or, er, some other letter”....
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