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...Who The Singular Space Compound, Chatsworth, California, US, $21.5m Where In the Chatsworth neighbourhood of San Fernando Valley, north of Los Angeles....
...The Seminole Ritz in which Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis hide out in drag with Marilyn Monroe for company? Actually the Hotel del Coronado, San Diego. I know — the subterfuge....
...Simultaneously sexy and serious, the power polo has been duly exploited by generations of stylish women: Jackie O, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn....
...Maison Bleue, with its poolside view of the San Jacinto Mountains, is even more dazzling. We are free to wander around, though volunteer guides are on hand....
...Lawson confirms that the fair’s in-person event in San Francisco and its virtual reality shows are on hold for now, with the focus on the Miami fair. “The digital component is still very real....
...The exhibition is taking place at the church of San Lorenzo, whose origins date back to the ninth century....
...I want to stay at the private members’ club San Vicente Bungalows, which I decorated for hotelier Jeff Klein in 2018....
...Unsurprisingly, “the Del” has since traded heavily on its supporting role to Marilyn Monroe and her cross-dressing co-stars, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon....
...Many private collectors own great examples: the magazine magnate Si Newhouse has the 1964 “Orange Marilyn” but others would die for “Shot Red Marilyn” (1964), or one of his disaster series....
...Throughout the Boulevard series we encounter people, such as the ageing Marilyn Monroe impersonator, who plainly want to be seen, who dress flamboyantly and pose confidently and unapologetically for the...
...Rosalyn Drexler, Garth Greenan Gallery A chic, commanding figure in the mould of Marilyn Monroe runs towards the viewer, pursued by a mysterious male, in Rosalyn Drexler’s 1963 work “Marilyn Pursued by...
...In 2011 she became an Adler Fellow at the San Francisco Opera. She also appeared with the Gotham Chamber Opera in Xavier Montsalvatge’s El gato con botas....
...Except for a few years in the San Francisco Bay Area — which the couple found too expensive — they established deep roots in the centre of the state....
...Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly: loves, suffers and dies by her own hand....
...Among the low-lying villas with their butterfly roofs and soaring concrete brises-soleil, another mid-century icon currently graces the landscape at Palm Springs: a 26ft statue of Marilyn Monroe, which was...
...“Understanding this [issue] is like doing breaststroke in quicksand because the information is so thick and murky,” said Marilyn Cohen, founder of Los Angeles-based Envision Capital Management, a private...
...“It’s really about creating democracy in the workplace and giving workers a sense that they own their own jobs,” says Marilyn Langlois, a former assistant to the city mayor who is now running for city council...
...The area was once a popular retreat for movie stars such as Marilyn Monroe and Bing Crosby, who came in search of sun and seclusion....
...The hero was Nicholas McGegan, who guided his Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra of San Francisco through the operatic cabals, curlicues and convolutions, anno 1733, with gusto and savoir-faire, also infectious...
...And then there was François Mitterrand’s legendary bon mot about the British prime minister having “the eyes of Caligula and the mouth of [Marilyn] Monroe.”...
...The ostensible subject is near-parodic – an emaciated girl in a Rio slum tries to make like Marilyn Monroe. But Lispector was a fierce and singular talent....
...Henry Brougham, Kidlington, Oxon, UK ● March 10 2011: Rail freight lobbyist overstepped mark From Dr John Savin, Wendover, Bucks, UK ● March 10 2011: Risky business of passenger forecasting From Ms Marilyn...
...The twin towers take the place of San Giorgio Maggiore, but the brooding poignancy is the same....
...Classic glamour in Montenegro In the 1960s the tiny islet of Sveti Stefan was the destination of choice for stars like Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe....
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