In just a few hours, the modern ideal of a fairy tale wedding will take place at Windsor Castle. A trip I took to the…
View More The Tapestry of HistoryTag: actors and actresses
I often use films as associations for design products and projects because set decoration, in my eyes, is interior design. The actors and actresses who move around in the movies must have interiors in which to exist.
In my diary entry Earnest in Paris, guest blogger Miles Stephenson delved into the differences between the writing of Ernest Hemingway and film director Wes Anderson. One wonderful evening in Paris, Anderson appeared with one of his favorite muses, Tilda Swinton.. In The Architecture of Tango, I admit envy regarding Sally Potter and her films, This post presents The Tango Lesson, a sensuous exploration of the Argentine Tango with Pablo Veron.
In A Midcentury Cougar on the Prowl, Anne Bancroft is the femme fatale; and in Heaven Shall Be Here, Alan Rickman stars in his own directorial debut alongside Kate Winslet and Matthias Schoenaerts. In The Seat of Scottish Power, a sexy Billy Connolly stars as John Brown, a Highlander who serves as Queen Victoria’s groom after she loses her husband. In How to Set a Mood, Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway play chess.
It’s the cast of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival I celebrate in Celebrating Shakespeare. In Find Your Red Carpet Style, I present beautiful Oscar gowns worn by Liz Taylor, Janet Gaynor, Scarlett Johansson, Lauren Bacall, Vanessa Williams and Margot Robbie. There are many more posts in which I feature actors and actresses so I hope you’ll stop by my blog and enjoy them.
Badgley Mischka Fashion at Home
Mark Badgley and James Mischka introduced their new furniture collection, Badgley Mischka Home, during April’s High Point Market. I had the pleasure of sitting down…
View More Badgley Mischka Fashion at HomeEarnest in Paris
This comparative look at Wes Anderson and Ernest Hemingway, Earnest in Paris, is a guest post by Miles Stephenson, a talented young writer whom I…
View More Earnest in ParisThe Architecture of Tango
I envy the pencil being held carefully between her fingers, the rasping sound the sharpener makes as a thin layer of wood peels away from…
View More The Architecture of TangoA Midcentury Cougar on the Prowl
The nickname cougar, signifying women who have “a thing” for younger men, hasn’t been around for as long as they’ve been cropping up in popular…
View More A Midcentury Cougar on the ProwlHeaven Shall Be Here
In the film A Little Chaos, Alan Rickman, who plays an unlikely Louis XIV, declares, “Heaven shall be here.” He’s speaking of a ballroom he…
View More Heaven Shall Be HereThe Seat of Scottish Power
As the opening credits roll during the film Her Majesty, Mrs Brown, a Markino marble bust, which has been tossed over a castle’s ramparts, tumbles…
View More The Seat of Scottish PowerHow to Set a Mood
The 1968 version of The Thomas Crown Affair starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway is a mercurial mélange of masculine and feminine charisma in equal…
View More How to Set a MoodCelebrating Shakespeare
Celebrating Shakespeare The 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death is April 23rd, the date he passed in 1616 at the age of 52 believed to…
View More Celebrating ShakespeareI Met Virginia Woolf in This Room
Who else is relieved that Lady Edith Crawley, played by Laura Carmichael, is finally finding happiness on Downton Abbey? Having binged on all of the…
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