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The Barbara Daly Baekeland Case
The Mail Online has a feature on the true-life circumstances and events that led to the murder of socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland at the hands of her son Antony Baekeland in 1972.
Sep 7, 2006 0
You Can Choose Your Family
Multi-billionaire, stock investor, businessman and philanthropist Warren Buffett is enraged that his granddaughter Nicole Buffett took part in a documentary about the lives of the rich and is telling her she is no longer part of his family.
Nicole, who is the adopted daughter of Buffett’s son Peter and biological daughter of Peter’s ex-wife Mary, was featured in Johnson & Johnson heir Jamie Johnson’s documentary, “The One Percent”.
Aug 2, 2006 Comments Off
One Special Summer
The always radiant Lee Radziwill at Rizzoli Bookstore for the signing of Lee’s and sister Jacqueline Bouvier’s book “One Special Summer”.
First published in 1974, “One Special Summer” is a nostalgic, hand-illustrated and hand-written book created by the Bouvier sisters, while on their journey to Europe in 1951. The handwriting is Lee’s and the illustrations are Jackie’s.
Jun 28, 2006 Comments Off
Uninspired
Source: WENN
Streep: “Wintour Didn’t Inspire Me”
Oscar winner Meryl Streep insists she didn’t base her The Devil Wears Prada character Miranda Priestly on US Vogue editor Anna Wintour, because she hadn’t heard of her until the movie was screened. The David Frankel-directed film is based on a novel by Wintour’s former assistant Wendy Finerman and is based on her experiences working for the fashion bible. But Sophie’s Choice actress Streep based her performance on a number of ‘uberbosses’ rather than directly portraying Wintour in the fashion industry parody. She tells the New York Daily News, “I know the book was based on an assistant’s view of Anna Wintour, but it didn’t interest me to do a documentary on Anna Wintour, and I don’t know anything about her. I only met her at the first benefit screening. She was a good sport, but I think she’d been told that I don’t resemble her. It was much more fun for me to make the uberboss out of a (combination of people), so that’s what I did.” Wintour brought her boyfriend Shelby Bryant and daughter Bee Shaffer to watch the movie at New York City’s Paris Theatre last month, but she declined to pose on the red carpet with Streep. Her spokesman tells website PageSix.com, “She thought the movie was very funny.”
Below is a sneak peak at Streep as the Anna Wintour-like character Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada, which opens this Friday.
May 2, 2006 0
Cooper's Own 360
Cooper’s Own Sad Story
By Rush & Molloy
Source: New York Daily News
Anderson Cooper has traveled the globe covering war and famine and disaster, but he’s been reluctant to report on his own family tragedy – until now.
In his new memoir, “Dispatches From the Edge,” Cooper writes that reporting the horrors of Hurricane Katrina cracked open a levee holding back memories of his brother Carter’s 1988 suicide.
“For so long, I tried to separate myself from my past,” Cooper recalls. “I tried to move on, forget what I’d lost, but the truth is, none of it’s ever gone away.”
As the children of heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, Cooper and his brother knew a childhood of privilege, where artists like Truman Capote and Andy Warhol were regular guests at their townhouse. Then their father, Wyatt, died in 1978 when Anderson was 10 and Carter was 12. “The world,” he writes, “seemed a very scary place.”
Apr 20, 2006 Comments Off
Stop The Madness!
Jocelyn Wildenstein had another tune up. When is too much, too much?…about eight years ago.
Mar 9, 2006 Comments Off
It's Not Easy Being Lee
Page Six reports Lee Radziwill “bolted” out of Tuesday’s night’s opening preview of “Grey Gardens” after the first act, when she “witnessed a little girl onstage playing a pre-pubescent version of herself, singing a song called “Being Bouvier” and expressing a wish to someday marry a prince.”
Among the audience members who attended the critically acclaimed musical adaptation of the Maysles Brothers 1975 documenatry of the same name, were fabled journalist Ben Bradlee and his wife Sally Quinn, who bought the historic East Hampton estate 25 years ago.
Also there was Albert Maysles himself, who along with his brother David Maysles, made the now cult classic documentary about the eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.