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...His London-based architect son Ernst L Freud had prepared a spacious study cum sitting room for him....
...A: Marilyn Monroe Six stocks: AMC, Gamestop, Coinbase, Commerzbank, Credit Suisse, Nomura Which is the highest and the lowest by S&P’s ESG score? (High is good, low is bad.)...
...The latest, L’Heure Exquise, marks the 40th anniversary of her Covent Garden debut. The 70-minute piece was created by Maurice Béjart for the then 62-year-old La Scala legend Carla Fracci in 1998....
...Sales were boosted by three significant collections and topped by Andy Warhol’s “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” (1964) at $170mn ($195mn with fees)....
...The song devoted specifically to that incident, “Cigarettes”, begins with the brutal line: “Ma fille s’est foutue en l’air” (“My daughter fucked up,” Birkin’s own translation)....
...In London, Sadler’s Wells has as rich a programme as ever, it seems — once the Christmas fare is out of the way, we’ll see Pina Bausch, the BalletBoyz, Carlos Acosta’s 100% Cuban, and lots more....
...In Hollywood, from Clara Bow to Marilyn Monroe, lipstick meant glamour and sex, inciting teenagers whose parents regarded red as reprobate to clamour for pinks and lavenders instead....
...A former Bear Stearns trader, he later said that he managed money for billionaires, including Les Wexner, the founder of L Brands, which owns Victoria’s Secret business....
...Mr Berman said on Monday that the deal Mr Acosta struck only bound the US attorney’s office in Miami, not his own....
...In the same year, L’Oréal Paris named former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Kurtis Dam-Mikkelsen – who, when in drag, goes by the stage name Miss Fame – as a spokesperson....
...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....
...There was a clear line between the eroticism practiced by unofficial feminist ringleader Joan Semmel, who painted far tamer pictures of straight, coital couples, and, say, Marilyn Minter’s later canvases...
...Designed by architect Edward L Varney in 1956, it too was populated with movie and particularly sports stars....
...Think less Marilyn Monroe, more Lena Dunham. This is in large part because of social media, especially YouTube....
...I pick up moleskin ones at L’Arbre à Lettres in Paris....
...Sophie Dahl, the writer, model and modern-day Marilyn Monroe, attributes her hosiery addiction to her innate romanticism “and battle-scarred knees”....
...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....
...Asked when she plans to retire, Christine Acosta’s answer is emphatic. Never....
...He is in Cuba with Carlos Acosta; he is in Colombia with Hanif Kureishi; he is at Alan Rickman’s funeral. At the last minute he calls to confirm that, yes, lunch is on....
...Two operas new to Covent Garden will be performed: Enescu’s masterpiece Oedipe and Chabrier’s high-spirited romp L’Etoile....
...The other major casualty was Gerhard Richter’s abstract “U.L.” (1985), bought in at £900,000 (est. £1.5m-£2m). The sale totalled £14.9m, also shy of the £15.5m low estimate for the whole sale....
...Norman Mailer saw fit to call a book Marilyn, and Elton John sang goodbye to “Norma Jean”. Film directors tend not to inspire this kind of personal love....
...In France they boast of l’or noir, the black truffle variety, but Italians dismiss such claims, insisting that their own “white gold” truffles are superior and so justifiably more expensive....
...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....
...“L’Asie” lacks a sense of abandon, “L’indifférent” any trace of the sex or steaminess you find in the best versions, such as Marilyn Horne’s with Bernstein on Sony Classical....
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