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...It’s said that the hotel’s name, after the Italian word for the nearby islands of Brijuni where Tito lived and worked for six months every year, was proposed by Sophia Loren, a serial visitor to the resort...
...We catch the waft of spices, frankincense and myrrh, commodities traded on the sagging decks of the dhows and houris as they have been since the time of the Queen of Sheba and the Axumite empire....
...At 29, she became the youngest recipient of the Queen’s Medal for Music. She has two permanent, visible scars on her neck from playing....
...In many respects, the studio of photographer Tony Vaccaro, found on the fifth floor of a converted factory in Long Island City, Queens, is like any other state-of-the-art facility....
...He’s been a clown, a beggar, a drag queen and a ventriloquist’s dummy. Tolstoy thought him ridiculous; Orwell, essential. In 1681, Nahum Tate cut him from the play altogether....
...Ferruccio Ferragamo, then a young boy, says he was always “impressed to hear my father was attending Audrey Hepburn or a queen of somewhere”....
...“I’ve become a bit of a rehab queen,” she laughs now....
...However, Paris’s Yvon Lambert did sell (for €250,000) a Francesco Vezzoli sculpture, “Portrait of Sophia Loren as the Muse of Antiquity (After Giorgio de Chirico)” (2011), again to a local collector....
...The list of cinematic worthies to have slept here includes Buñuel, Hitchcock, Scorsese, Bacall, Taylor and Loren – though not all at the same time....
...In his heyday of non-alignment Sophia Loren, Princess Margaret and others of the international jet set came to call....
...“Jack, don’t light me to look like a goddam fag,” wheezed Bogart on the deep-jungle set of The African Queen in 1950, one of only two people at that moment not to be struck down with water-borne infections...
...Dionysus would surely rejoice at the spectacular demise – watch out for it – of the Queen of Night....
...His gowns appeared on numerous red carpets thanks to a clientele that included Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, and Sharon Stone as well as Bernadette Chirac and Queen Raina of Jordan, but his speciality...
...From the cult of Queen Margherita of Savoy, which strengthened support for Italy’s lacklustre monarchy in the late 19th century, to the huge popularity of actresses Gina Lollobrigida and Sophia Loren, female...
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