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...“Compared to all the other governments we’ve had [this one has] been excellent,” said Cornelio Leyva, a 36-year-old oil industry worker....
...She is played by Alicia Vikander, Swedish star of Tomb Raider and an Oscar-winner for The Danish Girl....
...Her genuine delight at visiting the apartment of film star Vittorio Vidal (Martin Marquez) is infectious: when she delivers “If They Could See Me Now”, it’s not as a polished dance routine but as the sheer...
...They include himself, as well as Giovanni Palandrani (aka Aquaria), Matthew Sanderson (Detox), James Andrew Leyva (Valentina) and Paul Jason Dardo (Violet Chachki)....
...Mike Hobart VISUAL ARTS Francisco Vidal Francisco Vidal paints brilliantly coloured cotton flowers directly on to metal machetes traditionally used to harvest cotton — a reference to the 1961 Malanje...
...Stein moves on, to Jack Warner, whose name still adorns the studio he founded with his brothers; to Jane Garland, a young woman with a broken mind; and to Jennifer Jones, the Oscar-nominated actress who...
...Following Streep in her long journey from New Jersey cheerleader to Oscar winner (her first for the 1979 film Kramer vs Kramer), this is above all a tribute to smart, steadfast professional judgment....
...His late dad left him a spiritual bequest: the memory of a concentration camp guard who humiliated him and who lives on in that wonderland for waifs, strays and demons-in-denial that Gore Vidal called the...
...“This report will not determine the viability of Conga,” said Manuel Pulgar Vidal, environmental minister....
...At the 2005 Venice Biennale he wowed visitors with a trailer for a film on the life of Caligula, featuring Helen Mirren, Gore Vidal and Courtney Love among others – a film that didn’t exist....
...Meanwhile, the man Gore Vidal called “the acting president” gets the starring role in the book’s longest chapter. Not that Ross toes the Vidal line....
...When the celebrity hair mogul Vidal Sassoon – or, to be entirely accurate, when the celebrity hair mogul Vidal Sassoon’s people – told me he wanted to have lunch at the Monkey Bar in Manhattan, my cynical...
...Estranged for years, but sharing their DNA with a haggard, growling, reformed-alcoholic dad (played by a Nick Nolte, who seems to be attempting a dawn raid on the best supporting actor Oscar nomination),...
...Ireland, London, Paris; with Gore Vidal, Tom Stoppard and Bono (!) for expert chat. We even go to Palestine to dig up Herod and his story....
...Liberatum stages discussions between cultural figures from architecture, music, literature and fashion – such as the writers Gore Vidal and V.S....
...a British brand 20 years to get across the ocean, but we opened three stores in America between our second and third years in business, and we were able to do it because of what we did by coming to the Oscars...
...Jicky, created in 1889, represents for Pierre the fin-de-siècle decadence of JK Huysmans and Oscar Wilde. “It’s supposed to be the first one with three layers of scent....
...Truthers picketed the Academy Awards in LA – despite this year’s winner of the best actress Oscar, Marion Cotillard, reportedly being one of them. But then, she’s French....
...Rodrigo Arias, the chief of staff and brother of Óscar Arias, Costa Rica’s president, said of the decision: “It seems to us that there is a political motivation.”...
...“Every time the price of oil declines the impact is felt very quickly in the Venezuelan economy, above all within government finances,” says Oscar García, president of Banco Venezolano de Crédito....
...Alvaro Leyva, a politician who is attempting to broker a prisoner exchange, said a swap could open the door to peace talks....
...This week Al Gore, Bill Clinton’s vice-president, basked in the Hollywood glory of having his documentary An Inconvenient Truth nominated for two Oscars....
...“The problem you have [in Afghanistan] is very similar to what we have in Colombia,” said Lt Col Oscar Atehortua, who led the team to Kabul....
...Her father, Tommy Yeardye, co-founded Vidal Sassoon; her mother, Anne, was a Chanel model....
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