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“Chapter One. He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Behind his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat. Oh, I love this. New York was his town, and it always would be.” -Manhattan (1979)

Filmmakers photographed by Xavier Lambours.

Favorite Classic Films of the Stars~

John Cleese: The Great Dictator, Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Ladykillers [1955], The Third Man 

Jeff Bridges: Abbott and Costello, Meet Frankenstein, Carousel, Citizen Kane, High Noon, Mister Roberts, ON the Waterfront, Out of the Past, Sunset Boulevard, Twelve Angry Men, Vertigo 

Michael Caine:  All About Eve, Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, The Great Dictator, The Maltese Falcon, On the Waterfront, The Third Man, To Have and Have Not, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 

Winona Ryder: Ball of Fire, Born Yesterday, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Dodsworth, The Heiress, The Lady Eve, Stalag 17, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Sullavan’s Travels, Sunset Boulevard 

Sidney Poitier: Casablanca, Double Indemnity, Enfants de Paris [1931], The Grapes of Wrath, Red River, Room at the Top, Shane, Sullivan’s Travels, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Watch on the Rhine 

Elijah Wood:  The Night of the Hunter, Harvey 

Sam Rockwell:  From Here to Eternity, His Girl Friday, It’s a Wonderful Life, The Killing, On the Waterfront, Paths of Glory, Some Like it Hot, The Thin Man, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 

Hugh Jackman: All About Eve, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Roman Holiday, Scaramouche [1952], Singin; in the Rain, Witness for the Prosecution, The Wizard of Oz 

Janet Leigh: Boys Town, Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Notorious, The Philadelphia Story, Rebecca, The Wizard of Oz, Wuthering Heights

Dame Helen Mirren steps in to grant a dying boy’s wish to meet the Queen

Oliver Burton, ten, may have just weeks to live after being hit by cancer for a third time.

Visiting the Queen at Buckingham Palace topped his list of dream activities — but his family was told a meeting would not be possible.

So Dame Helen stepped in, bringing him in a limo to see her West End show The Audience — in which she plays the Queen — then taking him backstage to meet her corgis.

The actress, 67, even KNIGHTED the excited schoolboy “Sir Oliver” during his visit, telling The Sun: “It was a pleasure and a privilege to meet such a brave young man.

Ex-Coldstream Guard James, now a full-time carer for his son, said of the visit: “She stayed in character for the whole thing and had a butler. “She was really lovely.”

Oliver, from Leicester, was first diagnosed with leukaemia in 2006, aged three. He recovered but in 2010 the cancer returned — and once again he pulled through.
Then last Christmas he was diagnosed with cancer in his spine and bone marrow — and this time intensive treatment is not possible, so he returned home with his mum, dad, and brother Ethan, six.
The family have raised £10,000 for special trips for Oliver through the National Children’s Tumour Leukaemia Cancer Trust, which arranged the visit with Dame Helen. [x]

Bringing Up Baby… Oscar De La Renta pre-fall 2013 rtw

Oscar de la Renta’s pre-fall  collection exudes the easy elegance,  savoir faire and dapper sophistication of Katharine Hepburn’s personal style.  The “Queen of Hollywood Noir” loved the menswear inspired look and frequently donned tailored trousers and crisp oxford shirts with such finesse and an air of such poise and refinement that she might as well have been wearing a Chanel suit. And of course De La Renta’s signature Intricately detailed gowns and beautiful dresses also make an appearance and the silhouette is much like Hepburn’s wardrobe in movies like Summertime - a cinched waist and a full skirt. Just like Katharine Hepburn’s larger-than-life personality and Joie de Vivre Oscar de la renta’s pre fall ‘13 collection is full bodied and utterly intoxicating.

~ If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased ~ 

Katharine Hepburn