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...Director Marilyn Agrelo spotlights the early years of the beloved show. The rhyme with the present is implicit but unavoidable....
...Napoleon’s march across Europe created an army of champagne salesmen; the clarity of Cristal was honed by Tsarist fears of poisoning; during the second world war, Churchill worried over the vineyards of Pol Roger...
...I’m reminded of Marilyn Monroe, who threw a crammed party on the top bunk of an open-berth sleeper train in Some Like It Hot. But there’s no party tonight....
...Perhaps, but it takes more than looks to make Marilyn Monroe seem dowdy (watch them together in How to Marry a Millionaire)....
...The glossy auction catalogue distributed to attendees during the evening included multiple images of Marilyn Monroe dressed in revealing, tight dresses....
...But Electra, led by chairman Roger Yates, has turned down the demand of the silver-haired raider for seats for himself and associate Ian Brindle....
...Dries van Noten concocted a clever story by juxtaposing images of Marilyn Monroe with a soundtrack that included “Pretty Vacant” by The Sex Pistols....
...“When you look at the divorce arena, emotions are extremely raw in a lot of cases,” explains Nick White, head of the in-house forensic accountancy with Marilyn Stowe, a specialist family law firm....
...Rogers comes over to ask how the food is. “I was more preoccupied by talking my head off than eating,” he admits endearingly....
...“Music autographs are more popular now than ever,” says Roger Epperson of Houston, Texas, who has traded rock and roll memorabilia for 25 years. “Sales are insane – the price keeps going up and up.”...
...Estimated to achieve £350,000-£550,000, it was made in 1970 with special modifications for the show starring Roger Moore and Tony Curtis. Aston Martin gave the DBS a four-litre straight-six engine....
...Over in Forest Hills, after all, as big stars like Andy Murray and Roger Federer flamed out before the semi-finals, Stanislas Wawrinka took the tennis world by surprise: though he didn’t make it to tomorrow...
...When British costume designer Joanna Johnston, nominated for an Academy Award for best costume design for Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, worked on her first big film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), she turned...
...‘Antonio Lopez: Fashion, Art, Sex & Disco’ by Roger Padilha and Mauricio Padilha (Rizzoli, £39.95)...
...Brett Rogers, director of London’s Photographers’ Gallery, says black-and-white adds gravitas to fashion, as it “hearkens back to the heyday of the hard-hitting photojournalism of the 1920s to 1960s, like...
...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....
...At the weekend, 250 Swindonians sang their hearts out in Swindon: The Opera, narrated by an actress playing local-born Diana Dors, Britain’s answer to Marilyn Monroe....
...This coming week we will welcome Dan Rogers, an alumnus and MBA2009, who is currently head of growth at the music start-up Songkick....
...Take Marilyn Monroe’s white halter-neck dress that famously blew up around her waist in The Seven Year Itch....
...Other high-value lots include Roger Brown’s $50,000 “Rabbit Head Logo” which graced the Chicago headquarters, and Larry Rivers’s Plexiglass sculpture of 1965 Playmate of the Year Jo Collins ($60,000-$80,000...
...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....
...Mr Joly was running CWT out of its one-time Paris headquarters when two years ago he was plucked by Marilyn Carlson Nelson, Carlson’s chairman, to relocate to Minnesota and take on the whole empire, becoming...
...So, the return to conservatism and reign of fear reminded me of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire....
...Marilyn Monroe is the femme fatale of the modern age, as Bizet’s Carmen and Massenet’s Manon have been for a century of opera-goers. And Princess Diana?...
...It needs to go beyond the Bohèmes and Traviatas, but there are works more deserving of the Pappano-Jones treatment: Hindemith’s Cardillac and Szymanowski’s King Roger for starters....
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