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The Duke and Duchess of Alba got a little antiquing in on Friday. He just loves antiques.
The Duchess wore a shapeless gray pullover as she was pulled all over the stalls.
It’s true, there’s someone for everyone.
The problem is that one of them usually doesn’t like the other one.
via hola.com
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Okay, Valentines… let’s do it. Ella swings it.
La vie en rose. Marlene Dietrich at 71 in ’72.
Dino croons it. So groovy.
Stevie, 1974.
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President Kennedy, now 94, sent a message from the beyond saying, “Yes, I, eh, did have sex with that, eh, woman. And it was pretty good.”
for Gina
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No, this isn’t one of the new queens on Ru Paul’s Drag Race. This isn’t even a man.
There’s happy news out of Spain, as you can see in the sanguine expression on the face of the Duchess of Alba. At least I think you can see it. Clearly she doesn’t have a care in the world, as evidenced by the fuchsia earrings and jaunty blue bow in her hair. Yes, this is ossified glee.
The Duchess of Alba and Alfonso Diez had no honeymoon after the October nuptials that solidified their July/February romance. There’d been a problem with Cayetana’s pelvis, requiring rest, and then there are the pesky austerity measures thrust upon the august duchess, which make traveling with an entourage a bit of conspicuousness best left behind palace doors, and heaven knows we don’t want to know what’s going on there.
Somehow, though, the newlyweds managed a getaway to the Loire Valley.
Speaking of grapes…
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Oh the horror of it all. Demi Moore, who hasn’t eaten since 2011, is now hospitalized after a bad reaction to nitrous oxide. If you’re going to use whip-its at age 49, you really should consider at least a nutritional breakfast. Or a power snack.
Meanwhile, Ashton is caught in a flood while visiting with models in Sao Paulo. That can’t be fun. Having your pick of the most beautiful women while nearly 40% of Brazil lives below the poverty line has to put a crimp in your biscuit.
Breaking up is hard to do.
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Carole Lombard, the exquisite screwball, died 70 years ago yesterday when the Transcontinental DC-3 in which she and her mother and 15 Army servicemen and five others were traveling from a bond rally, crashed into Double Up Peak near Las Vegas. She was just 33, and the wife of the King of Hollywood, Clark Gable.
Lucille Ball, a close friend, claimed that after Carole’s death, she would visit Lucy and advise on important decisions. Wild!
She also advised me to make her today’s Turban Tuesday, and to add this clip…
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Sylvester Stallone and his Danish wife Brigitte Nielsen (who was involved in a car accident last night) “back in the day,” and American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert and his Finnish boyfriend, Sauli Koskinen, who were both arrested last night for fighting outside of a club in Finland.
What would Jackie do?
Stallone’s mother, Jackie Stallone, photographed four years ago at age 86. Most of her just turned 90.
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Marion Davies, the first lady of Hearst Castle, film star and hostess extraordinaire, as seen in 1936, wearing a Cossack turban and matching coat. Hearst never married Davies because his wife wouldn’t grant him a divorce, or he wouldn’t pay the settlement.
Here’s Marion, doing her own singing, in 1934′s “Operator 13.” The handsome chap is Gary Cooper.
Publisher, movie producer and collector Hearst died at age 88 in 1951, leaving half of what remained of his fortune to Marion. “Citizen Kane” is loosely based on his life, with the Susan Alexander character based on Davies.
Davies died of cancer in 1961, leaving an estate worth $20 or 30 million. She bequeathed millions to UCLA for a children’s hospital, and half of the estate went to her “niece.”
After the 1993 death of Davies’ niece, Patricia Van Cleve Lake, it was revealed by Lake’s family that she was actually the birth daughter of Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst. Here’s Patricia in a modified turban…
It is said that Hearst told Lake that she was his biological daughter, on her wedding day at the castle, to actor Arthur Lake of “Blondie” fame. She’s entombed, with Arthur and Marion, at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
When in San Luis Obispo, visit Hearst Castle.
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Lee Wiley sings Cole Porter… and a little beefcake to go with it. Good morning!
Perhaps one less man.
Let Shirley sing it.
Hope springs eternal.
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That exquisite snowball of lamb hair, the lambs wool jacket, Duchess of Alba Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart and her Duke, Alfie, attended a recital in Seville last night… and it looks like marriage agrees with her… although it also looks like her dinner did not.
Cayetana wore a mini and fishnets, accentuating her arthritic limbs, while Alfie opted for something out of the Spanish version of a Lands’ End catalog. Adorable newlyweds!
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"If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.”
--Jimmy Buffett
