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...The director is William Oldroyd, a former rising star of the British stage gone over to cinema....
...Guests included Naomi Campbell, Dame Joan Collins, Hugh Grant and John Travolta, with entertainment by Robbie Williams....
...Whatever his sniffy opinion, we will continue our dig for victory against docks, nettles, brambles, ground elder and ivy, won’t we?...
...With a script by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, based on the 1933 film, it comprises a fairly slender rags-to-riches success story....
...Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe, Agatha Christie’s Arlena Marshall (from Evil Under the Sun), mermaids, red lips, bananas and leopards are just some of her go-to inspirations for both her personal style and...
...For the then 19-year-old Eilish, the Marilyn Monroe-inspired ball gown marked a departure from her usual style of baggy T-shirts and tracksuits and cemented her shift from neo-goth teen pop sensation to...
...A superb room of William Blake’s and Chris Ofili’s iridescent, mysterious watercolours absorbingly converges formal and intellectual concerns — blending figure and background, popular culture segueing into...
...The artist I would collect if I could is William Blake – I have a few bookplates framed, but it would be amazing to have an original piece, particularly his print Pity....
...Long before Campbell’s Soup cans and Marilyn Monroe, Warhol made his first fortune in commercial art, running a multidisciplinary studio throughout the 1950s cranking out everything from magazine illustrations...
...Another nod, meanwhile, went to Ana de Armas’s portrait of Marilyn Monroe in Blonde, despite the film itself being widely derided....
...The Harvard academic Daniel Lieberman, along with biologist Dennis Bramble, pursued this theory....
...William Felton Russell was born on February 12 1934 in Monroe, Louisiana, where his father worked in a paper bag factory before moving the family to Oakland, California, when his son was 9....
...Transfer Market Tim Williams, former chief financial officer of Inter Milan, is back in football....
...Andy Warhol painting of Marilyn Monroe sells for record The iconic Andy Warhol silkscreen portrait of Marilyn Monroe, “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn”, sold for $195mn at Christie’s last night....
...Kirkland & Ellis has hired Nicole Runyan, William Tuttle, Brad Green, Erin Lett, David Marcinkus and Lisa Goldstein as partners in its investment funds group. All join from Proskauer Rose....
...I tried the diet of America’s fattest president, William Howard Taft: a Victorian nightmare of glutinous biscuits and the sniping memoirs of his best friend and mortal enemy Major Archibald Butt....
...Taking Million Dollar Mermaid Esther Williams as your swimming style cue is akin to dressing for the pool or beach as one might for dinner – that is to say, embracing all-out glamour....
...They have come to join a house tour — long sold out — of Maison Bleue Moderne, a 1950s home by William Krisel, one of a generation of “desert modernists” who specialised in the postwar architectural glamour...
...Meanwhile, in 1950s New York, Willem de Kooning was developing blocky post-cubist renderings of huge-limbed, pillow-breasted women with exaggerated Marilyn Monroe lips and fanged teeth....
...Here is a world of teddy boys and retro swing dresses, with the Marschallin as a Marilyn Monroe lookalike and Baron Ochs a faded, prewar Lothario sporting ginger hair and a garish tartan suit....
...They were a foil to all the glamour and glitz and, like Shane Connolly’s avenue of field maples and hornbeams for the marriage of Kate Middleton and Prince William in 2011, they signalled a new mindset in...
...All I got was nettles and brambles.” She portrays the aristocracy as “custodians” of Britain’s great estates, burdened by worry for them. Her youth at Holkham was not that jolly....
...Heidi Seaborn’s new collection of poems, ‘An Insomniac’s Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe’ is published by Pank Books in June Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...The garden, meanwhile, was a dump that would take three years to clear of brambles, weeds and rubbish....
...She gives credit to the remarkable William Dampier, born in 1651, who combined his early collections of plant material with a fashionable type of free trade: piracy....
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