| Audrey Hepburn's 'Tiffany's' dress sells for $800000 | | Posted Monday, January 01, 2007 1:06:44 PM by Blog57 Team | | Audrey Hepburn, the on and off-screen beauty that stole the hearts of millions through her acting and her humanitarian causes, has found a way to raise more money for charity more than 13 years after her death, as the little black dress Hepburn wore in Breakfast at Tiffany's brought in a stunning price at auction. .... | |
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| | | Humor that stings: Diva's desire to go Hollywood gets high society buzzing in 'Bees' | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:28:43 AM by Blog57 Team | | It's probably not surprising that the screenwriter of the movie To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar has a thing for a certain brand of catty women with out-there personalities. And many of them -- fashionably played in film by the likes of Rosalind Russell, Liza Minnelli, Tallulah Bankhead and Audrey Hepburn -- are wrapped up in the character of New York socialite Alexa Vere de Vere in Douglas Carter Beane's comedy As Bees in Honey Drown. In Bees, which closes Stage West's 2005-06 season, Alexa wants "next big thing" novelist Evan to write the screenplay for the story of her life. He's gay, but perhaps because of her resemblance to movie divas who have become gay icons -- another gay character calls her "a mixture of every woman I've ever loved in the movies" -- Evan falls in love with her.... | |
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| | | Rome, in Bid to Revive `Dolce Vita,' Bets on Festival (Update1) | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 3:05:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Rome inaugurates its first film festival today, seeking to restore cinematic glory and recapture ``La Dolce Vita'' more than half a century after Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck rode a Vespa through the cobblestoned streets and Anita Ekberg waded into the Trevi Fountain. ``It's a chance to put Rome on the map,'' said Elio Germano, a 26-year-old Roman actor who stars alongside Monica Bellucci in ``Io e Napoleone,'' one of the six films being premiered. The event, which opens tonight with the European premiere of Nicole Kidman's ``Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus,'' is an upstart rival to the internationally known Venice festival. Both have similar budgets of about 9 million euros ($11 million). Venice festival organizers have complained that the city's crumbling Palazzo del Cinema, built under fascism in the 1930s, is long overdue for a facelift.... | |
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| | | 'My Fair Lady' had an unfair, sterile love story | | Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 7:08:58 PM by Blog57 Team | | Hollywood actor Audrey Hepburn desperately wanted to have children, but she always ended up getting hooked to sterile men, according to a new biography on the Oscar-winning actor. In the early 1950s, Hepburn hooked up with married star William Holden, who was 11 years her senior, as the two made Sabrina, and "she was completely won over when he promised to divorce his wife and marry her," Donald Spoto writes in Enchantment, out this week from Harmony Books. "Audrey at once raised the issue of children: she wanted two, three, four and more—she would abandon her career to have a family... then he broke the news of his sterility." It turned out that Holden had undergone a vasectomy a few years earlier—at the request of his wife. Later, Hepburn, after marrying Mel Ferrer in what turned out to be an unhappy union, hooked up with Robert Anderson, who wrote the screenplay classics such as The Best Years of Our Lives and Rebecca.... | |
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| | | Prada Placement | | Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 5:32:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | The thing is, it isn't annoying. When plucky, fashion-proof heroine Andy reveals her ignorance by asking a caller how to spell "Gabbana," we all laughed. (No, the movie's not out yet in Italy, but we expats have our secret channels). The litany of fashion A-listers, the clusters of glossy big-name store bags, the endless trays of Starbucks actually seemed to make the movie more realistic. In fact, the one false note was the stupid pretend name of the magazine where the heroine works, "Runway." It's a sad day when product placement stands for realism. Remember "Funny Face?" OK, so it was Gershwin, Stanley Donen, Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire and Paris. But the same basic concept: a Cinderella story, based on a real one, revolving around "Vogue" magazine and its frighteningly powerful editor.... | |
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| | | STYLE FILE: Tahnya Williams | | Posted Sunday, August 27, 2006 11:03:15 AM by Blog57 Team | | Despite what you may think about their unrealistic body dimensions, Barbie dolls provide a fertile field for fashion-minded little girls to explore their inner designers. Tahnya Williams, 37, was no exception. When she was 6, Williams spent hours creating fabulous outfits for her Barbies from washcloths, pillowcases and other scraps of household fabric. Williams graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with a degree in industrial relations, and after a career in corporate human resources, went to work for custom clothier Cary Mitchell. Now she is the manager of Personal Touch, a complimentary personal shopping service for women, men and children at Nordstrom in SouthPark mall. "I think I have a very good sense of what women look for," says Williams. "We want to wear clothes that make us look sexy, that we can wear during the day and transition to a night out." Q.... | |
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| | | Audrey Hepburn’s Little Black Dress Hawked Off At Auction | | Posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 9:06:52 AM by Blog57 Team | | The famous little black dress that Audrey Hepburn wore in Breakfast At Tiffany's is to be auctioned off for charity at the end of the year, and is expected to raise between £50,000 - £70,000. Although why anyone would spend that much is beyond us - it's a 45-year old sliver of material that probably stinks of cigarettes, cats, ukuleles and Hannibal out of The A Team. There's probably no better way of raising a load of money than to auction off stuff that used to belong to someone dead who used to be famous, and the more famous the better. A John Lennon suit can sell for £66,000, a Jerry Garcia toilet can sell for £40,000 and a load of old Marlon Brando crap can sell for £1.2 million. At the other end of the scale, a kidney stone that's been inside William Shatner's penis will cost just £13,000.... | |
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| | | Auction proceeds of Hepburn's dress to go to Indian NGO | | Posted Saturday, August 05, 2006 7:06:16 AM by Blog57 Team | | Melbourne: The classic black gown worn by yesteryears' Hollywood heroine Audrey Hepburn for the film "Breakfast at Tiffany's" will be put up for auction this year with the proceeds going to an Indian charitable organisation working for slum children.The cocktail dress worn by the Oscar-winning actress in the film's opening scene will be auctioned by Christie's in London in December.The dress is expected to fetch USD 100,000 with proceeds going to the City of Joy Foundation, a Kolkata-based NGO that works for slum children, Sydney Morning Herald daily said in a report.The evening gown was designed by French designer Hubert De Givenchy and also featured in the film's promotional poster, boosting its publicity.Hepburn has been ranked as the third greatest female stars of all times by the American Film Institute.The Academy award winning star of the 1953 classic "Roman Holiday" also worked as a goodwill ambassador with UNICEF.... | |
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| | | Marni Nixon Autobiography Due in Stores in September | | Posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 1:12:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | Marni Nixon, who will play Mother Abbess in the Hollywood Bowl's upcoming presentation of The Sound of Music, has penned her memoirs. Entitled "I Could Have Sung All Night," the tome co-written by Nixon and Stephen Cole will be released by Billboard Books in September. The hardcover autobiography, which features a foreword by Marilyn Horne, will retail for $24.95. Nixon is perhaps best known for dubbing the vocal performances of such film stars as Audrey Hepburn (in "My Fair Lady"), Deborah Kerr (in "The King and I") and Natalie Wood (in "West Side Story"). In "I Could Have Sung All Night," the singer-actress recalls her numerous Hollywood and Broadway experiences, including working with Julie Andrews, Leonard Bernstein, Liberace, Cary Grant, Otto Preminger and Victor Borge.... | |
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| | | Roman Holiday | | Posted Saturday, July 15, 2006 3:07:24 AM by Blog57 Team | | THAT is the title of the movie that stars Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. It was released in 1953 and it is in magnificent black and white. The film is about a princess (Hepburn) who gets bored with her being a princess and decides to run away and see the sights of Rome. There she meets Peck who plays a reporter. I will stop there. It is a very interesting movie. Two weeks ago, my wife and I watched Roman Holiday. And right away, we noticed a couple of things. The beautiful, almost angelic face of Audrey Hepburn and her unbelievable waistline. She is a wonderful actress but it is her face that really is so beautiful. In fact, my wife kept saying that she was so pretty and beautiful and whatever. In the first part of Roman Holiday, Hepburn had her hair long but as the movie went on, she decided to it have cut.... | |
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