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...To be included in the same club as Queen Elizabeth II, a past recipient of the RBG award, is important....
...Back in 2017, John Wilson brought a semi-staged production of Oklahoma! to the BBC Proms....
...Two decades on, the latest is for the first ascent of a Nepalese peak called Jugal Spire (also known as Dorje Lhakpa II) which Ramsden spotted on Google Earth during the Covid lockdown and climbed with Tim...
...The BBC has sold music studios in London’s Maida Vale that had been used by The Beatles and David Bowie to a consortium including Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer....
...A 3D lightbox version sold at the Oscars party this March for $100,000. “With Elton you can’t crank it up too much,” chuckles Levine. “The more sparkle, the more effervescent you can get – the better.”...
...“It was one of the few resorts where you could still ski all the pistes throughout the season last year while much of Europe had very little snow,” says Oscar Pesch, a 55-year-old entrepreneur from The Hague...
...Who can forget when the late Queen Elizabeth II, a devoted brooch-wearer, wore a pin in the shape of a snowflake for Donald Trump’s first presidential visit to the UK?...
...Leaves flutter against a high glass pane; beneath it Oscar Wilde, lounging in silk and velvet, languidly appropriates the real-life backdrop....
...A good listen and useful snapshot of a strong UK jazz strand. ★★★★☆ ‘Blue Note Re:imagined II’ is released by Blue Note...
...a silver boned silk dress with large puff sleeves believed to have been worn at the court of Charles II by a young Lady Theophila Harris, against items such as the white floral lace minidress worn by Audrey...
...For all the golden moments its animators have conjured, there is a reason Disney has never won a Best Picture Oscar under its own banner....
...“If you are not a liberal at 25, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at 35 you have no brain.” So said Winston Churchill. Or US president John Adams. Or perhaps King Oscar II of Sweden....
...See if you can spot a painting of Elizabeth Taylor and a print of Oscar Wilde....
...clutch of architecturally striking pavilions and indoor exhibition spaces — designed by the likes of Tadao Ando, Oscar Niemeyer, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Jean-Michel Wilmotte....
...The Oscar-winning actress went so far as to call for a disclaimer at the start of each episode....
...In The Souvenir Part II, a film student named Julie got there en route to becoming a director. Now another Julie (Renate Reinsve) finds a calling harder to come by....
...Many of the pieces come with illustrious provenance (Savonnerie rugs designed for the Louvre; a sewing table made for Marie Antoinette; silver service commissioned by Catherine II of Russia), all of it arrayed...
...The 95th Academy Awards — the Oscars — are held in Hollywood on March 12....
...Queen Elizabeth II visited Tai Pak in the 1970s on a trip to Hong Kong, when it was still a British colony....
...featured in the Oscar-winning film Parasite....
...He won his fourth Oscar nomination for David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence (2006), as a gangster kingpin on a vendetta. Hurt himself was raised to privilege....
...He won an Oscar nomination in the jailbreak drama The Defiant Ones (1958) and the Oscar itself — the first Best Actor statuette ever awarded to a black performer — for Lilies of the Field (1963)....
...Stoya has won the equivalent of an adult Oscar. She’s been a headline star and a bit of an alternative porn icon....
...What A Grade II*-listed Modernist house with 5,000 sq ft of living space....
...Their historic, Grade II-listed mansion in Gloucestershire had made headlines years earlier when the couple sought to build a Palladian-style chicken coop at an estimated cost of £150,000....
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