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...When the book was published in the US late last year, the New York Times made comparisons with Truman Capote’s true-crime masterpiece In Cold Blood....
...She was one of Truman Capote’s Swans and she was fantastic – very, very beautiful. She could wear anything and look great....
...(A host of novelists, from James Joyce to Truman Capote and Edith Wharton, also wrote in bed.) Even if you aren’t, there is another reason it might pay to ponder this ritual: brain science....
...Well, Monroe says, she was actually Capote’s first choice for Holly Golightly . . ....
...There will also be a spotlight section devoted to portraits taken by Helmut Newton from the 1970s-1990s and a collection of Andy Warhol Polaroids of celebrity icons from Grace Jones to Truman Capote....
...Among the mourners was Robert Lewis Burns, Shirley’s uncle and a Vietnam war veteran....
...Robert Saint-Brice, a visionary painter who died in 1973, features on the booth at the 1-54 fair (October 4-7), and simultaneously at Frieze Masters (also October 4-7) the gallery is showing works by the...
...Truman Capote, who rented DH Lawrence’s former house in 1950, wrote: “It is very like living in an airplane, or a ship trembling on the peak of a tidal wave: there is a momentous feeling each time one looks...
...Capote, no slouch when it came to the company of decorative women, understood well the business of chic....
...When in 1970 her husband Robert Lowell left her for his “muse” Lady Caroline Blackwood, his subsequent volumes of poetry cut, pasted and misquoted at will from Hardwick’s anguished letters....
...Truman Capote wore a version of the Lemtosh. And Jake Gyllenhaal wears a sunglasses version on the poster for Demolition....
...Auteur on the rise Bennett Miller (Moneyball, Capote) helms the truth-based Foxcatcher....
...Pacino’s contemporary and sometime co-star Robert De Niro appears to provide a contrary case. He won an Oscar for his very low-key performance as Michael Corleone’s father in The Godfather Part II....
...I went to where [the photographer] Robert Adams had worked, in Colorado. I made a pilgrimage to the location of one of Robert Frank’s images, in Montana....
...LITERARY NON-FICTION White Girls , by Hilton Als, McSweeney’s, RRP$24 The New Yorker critic’s first major work since 1996’s The Women, this collection of essays parses cultural figures including Truman Capote...
...Peter Beard, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Bruce Weber were among the photographers whose work we published very early in their careers....
...I think of Waugh and Capote, Graham Greene and Cecil Beaton and others who have lost their sense of time to this very spot over the decades – pristine, natural Jamaica, the patina of colonial 1950s glamour...
...By the 1970s it had become a world-class collection featuring the works of such artists as Ansel Adams, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe and David Hockney, to name but a few....
...There hasn’t been a loss to any victim,” says Robert Wittman, an investigator who used to run the FBI’s Art Crime Team....
...At the champagne opening, many of the subjects – Truman Capote, Lord Snowdon, Sylvester Stallone – turned up as guests, confirming the show as a microcosm of 1970s society....
...I never got a chance to ask him his name but if I had to guess I would hazard “Robert”: there’s an old and rusting van by the side of the house with the words “Robert’s Ultra-sonic Cleaning Service” written...
...By the end, though, it all just gets a little too silly: time travel is heaved into the mix, and the story turns into a blend of Robert Heinlein-style science fiction and Homer and Jethro’s country song...
...And yes, they are filmed with a panache that puts Babel on a higher level than Crash in the skyscraper of multi-story cinema (whose penthouse is still occupied by Robert Altman, with death a minor detail...
...The New York Times described it as a “coronation” for Mr Schwarzman, comparing it to Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball in 1966 and Saul Steinberg’s daughter’s wedding at the Temple of Dendur in the Metropolitan...
...To make matters worse, the Best Picture nominees do not include a single Titanic-style crowd-pleaser but smaller, more challenging stories, such as Brokeback Mountain, Capote and Crash....
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