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...Butts: A Backstory by Heather Radke Simon & Schuster £20/Avid Reader Press $28.99, 320 pages...
...“The Art of Bob Mackie by Frank Vlastnik and Laura Ross”, Simon & Schuster, £35 Find out about our latest stories first — follow @financialtimesfashion on Instagram...
...This spring, the Brighton Museum staged a full retrospective of the 96-year-old US-born photographer Marilyn Stafford – her most comprehensive yet....
...Join FT columnist Simon Kuper on May 25 at 15.30 BST/10:30 EST for a conversation with journalist David de Jong on his groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions from...
...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....
...Lehmann Maupin will open with a Marilyn Minter show, followed by an exhibition of its latest charge, Chantal Joffe, whom the gallery now represents in Asia (she continues to work with Victoria Miro elsewhere...
...By 1946, he had won two Oscars for The Lost Weekend, and by 1958, he was directing Marilyn Monroe in the defining performance of her career in Some Like It Hot....
...Simon Schama is in New York and not able, as he himself rues, to visit the Ashmolean to see its Young Rembrandt exhibition, which covers the first 10 years of the artist’s career....
...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....
...Rushdie instead insulates his novels with his own enthusiasms: cue stray allusions to the lyrics of Paul Simon, The Beatles and U2....
...The WGAW’s criticisms in some ways evoke the story of MCA, which enjoyed dominion over Hollywood in the days of Alfred Hitchcock, Ronald Reagan and Marilyn Monroe....
...Simon Doonan, a self-described drag enthusiast and the creative ambassador for Barneys New York, has just written Drag: The Complete Story, tracing the art form’s origins and contemporary resurgence....
...irreverent approach to adapting Joyce. ★★★☆☆ The Misfits at the Smock Alley Theatre is billed as a “reimagined” version of Arthur Miller’s 1961 film about cowboys without a cause starring Clark Gable and Marilyn...
...Three years later, Marilyn Manson gave it the none-too-subtle industrial rock treatment, with Johnny Depp on guitars....
...Simon Schama discusses ‘The American Dream’, at the British Museum on March 17....
...Lighting up that ersatz swingathon is Sutton Foster, who invests the titular Charity with irresistible goofy charm and displays comic talents reminiscent of Lucille Ball and Marilyn Monroe....
...We talk cross-gender casting with Simon Godwin, the play's director, and to Kathryn Hunter, the first woman to play King Lear in 1997....
...Some like it hot A platinum and diamond Blancpain cocktail watch originally owned by Marilyn Monroe fetched $225,000, double its estimate, when it was sold by Los Angeles auction house Juliens....
...“It’s going to take a particular type of buyer,” says Marilyn Fisher of LW Reely, the agent marketing a Wright-designed home in Elmhurst, a city outside Chicago....
...Followers include the influential contemporary art specialists Brett Gorvy, Simon de Pury and, as of the beginning of this year, Serpentine Gallery director Hans Ulrich Obrist....
...For instance, James and Marilyn Simons, who gave Mr Obama his largest donation of $5m, have given Mrs Clinton $7m so far....
...The 110-year-old, 282-room Plaza, which has hosted celebrities such as The Beatles and Marilyn Monroe, is operated by Fairmont and was formerly owned by Donald Trump, the US presidential candidate....
...These two gentlemen are Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees (also famous for marrying Marilyn Monroe and being name-checked in a great Simon & Garfunkel song) and Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox: They...
...First published in 1959 and now reissued, Jump Book catalogues his most glorious examples, from Marilyn Monroe’s impressive bent-knee bounce, to Audrey Hepburn’s smiling — and full-skirted — bound....
...In the documentary Dior and I , Raf Simons sends a text to artist Sterling Ruby about recreating one of Ruby’s canvases for Simons’ debut couture show at Dior....
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