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In this week s Rewind, Robert Smith recalls a few of the details of an award s night banquet held 35 years ago in Kingston back in 1986. Gatherings such as this one have been held for many years to honour numerous individuals involved with racing at a certain track and usually associated with the local Turf Club. They weren t quite an equal to the modern day O Brien Awards nights but they were still special. Additionally a few older pictures taken at the Kingston track are displayed and will serve as this week s mystery photos.
President-elect Joe Biden’s German Shepherd Major is getting an “indoguration” of his own, thanks to the Delaware Humane Association from which he was adopted.
Joan wears cape and gloves, Eliza Jane Howell. Earrings, Merola London. Dress, Deadly Is The Female
She’s a legend, icon and our most enduring movie star of all time. As JOAN COLLINS celebrates 70 years in the business, her best friend Piers Morgan joins her for lunch. And, from sex (‘two times a day is too much, dahling’) to rich men (‘mean and selfish’), nothing is off limits…
Dame Joan Collins elegantly speared a large piece of sea bass at Club 55, our mutual favourite St Tropez beach restaurant, and made a sudden dramatic, table-silencing announcement. ‘This year is my 70th year in the movie business!’ she declared. ‘Sorry, WHAT?’ I replied, astounded by what I’d just heard. ‘You’ve been making films for 15 years longer than I’ve been alive?’
George Sanders was cinema s great poet of dry cynicism – and never better than in Voyage to Italy Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. began his suicide note. In this classic 1954 film, he reveals his cosmic self-contempt
George Sanders and Ingrid Bergman filming Voyage to Italy in 1953
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One day I’ll make a pilgrimage to the Hotel Rey Don Jaime in Castelldefels, 10 miles south of Barcelona, where George Sanders committed suicide in 1972. (“Dear World,” he characteristically wrote in his over-egged note for the police, “I am leaving because I am bored… I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool…”) Meanwhile, there’s always the Hotel Excelsior, in Naples, where Sanders, and Ingrid Bergman, made Journey to Italy in 1954. “What noisy people,” says Sanders’ Alexander Joyce of the Italians, with amused irritation, or irritated amusement. “I’ve never seen noise and boredom go so well together.”
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The Beverly Hills home of late fashion designer David Hayes sold on Wednesday for $4.26 million. PREMIER AGENT NETWORK Text size
The Los Angeles home of late fashion designer David Hayes, who famously dressed former First Lady Nancy Reagan, sold on Wednesday for $4.26 million.
Located in Beverly Hills, the three-bedroom, five-bathroom residence was originally listed in September for $5.9 million, according to listing records.
The house was designed by architect Bob Ray Offenhauser specifically for the designer. Sitting on almost half an acre, it combines European and Asian influences throughout the property. The rich formal floor plan is timeless and offers a stately lifestyle for those that may enjoy high-class entertaining,