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...Cord Jefferson, buoyed by the Oscar nominations, has said he hopes the film will help lead to a greater variety of black stories in Hollywood....
...Elton was an early adopter of the Franck Muller brand, which, for a while in the early to mid-1990s, enjoyed the sort of renown now associated with Richard Mille or F P Journe....
...All of which earned Wiseman an honorary Oscar in 2016, not exactly common for a documentary filmmaker....
...He has won two prizes at the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG), the Oscars of the watch world. His workshop in Geneva’s old town is a place of pilgrimage....
...Bollywood has rarely won best foreign film awards at major festivals and never at the Oscars, showing limited appeal on the global stage....
...“It was hate, it was violent: ‘You get out of my face, you f***ot.’ I thought, these people know better than me; they’ve had success.”...
...It’s charming and funny: portraits of a person, where they lived, and a little anecdote about them, from John F Kennedy to Sigmund Freud. I really recommend it....
...The Pentagon said two destroyers — the USS Oscar Austin and USS Philippine Sea — and the USS Carter Hall, a ship with a landing dock, were engaged in a retrieval operation off the coast of South Carolina...
...And so in show business, it's fantastic that I'm a 64-year-old woman that won the Oscar, and Michelle Yeoh was a 60-year-old woman who won the Oscar. That is fantastic....
...Which character in a 1922 short story by F Scott Fitzgerald ages backwards? What first name is shared by co-founders of both Wikipedia and Google?...
...Bottega Veneta ruched midi dress, £2,090, matchesfashion.com Fendi F-shaped-heel sandals, £1,120, farfetch.com Sophie Bille Brahe jewellery box, £60 Knoll Platner side chair by Warren Platner, £3,000,...
...My style icon is John F Kennedy Jr. I like his flow: a bit chic, but poetic and sporty at the same time....
...The 95th Academy Awards — the Oscars — are held in Hollywood on March 12....
...Earlier this month, a version of the Octo Finissimo won the top prize at the prestigious Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève, usually referred to as the Oscars of the watch world....
...When good Americans die, wrote Oscar Wilde, they all go to Paris. Of course, Americans can be impatient people, and quite a few, hoping to beat the queues, don’t wait for death....
...That designer was Ann Lowe, the couturier who had also created Olivia de Havilland’s flower-painted 1947 Oscars gown....
...And on my wishlist is a Ford F-150 Lightning Electric pick-up truck, with a four-door cab and zero emissions....
...“I don’t use the F word often, but I would say that they are… fabulous. I love their work, but it’s out of my price range.”...
...Besides suppliers, Ford operates an engine plant in Chihuahua where 2,400 workers make engines for its larger F-series trucks and the Escape crossover utility vehicle....
...She urged me to have a dinner during the film festival, similar to the one we were then doing in Los Angeles on the night of the Oscars....
...And f*** everybody else.” But what if you’re failing to pay the rent? “You have no choice.”...
...“I was really good at football and, suddenly, looking and going, ‘Wait a f**king second, I couldn’t be a professional footballer.’”...
...London Crossword 16,278: Peter Bromwich, Birmingham; James Reid, Fife, Scotland; EASherratt, Staffordshire, England Polymath 1,040: Patricia Blakemore, West Midlands, England Crossword 16,272: Martha F...
...He moved to Los Angeles in early 2009 and was among a group of writers who won an Emmy for Hugh Jackman’s opening number at that year’s Oscars....
...Pugin, C.F.A. Voysey, Edward William Godwin and Christopher Dresser....
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