Grace Kelly
- Thread starter oanadobre
- Start date
scriptgirl
Active Member
- Joined
- May 1, 2006
- Messages
- 12,232
- Reaction score
- 5
Again, humbled that you like my pics!
east news
east news
Sensibility
Active Member
- Joined
- Aug 13, 2008
- Messages
- 997
- Reaction score
- 0
i know all her looks year to year! a lot of year being fan of grace... have consecuence! thanks!
scriptgirl
Active Member
- Joined
- May 1, 2006
- Messages
- 12,232
- Reaction score
- 5
iespaa
scriptgirl
Active Member
- Joined
- May 1, 2006
- Messages
- 12,232
- Reaction score
- 5
scriptgirl
Active Member
- Joined
- May 1, 2006
- Messages
- 12,232
- Reaction score
- 5
ebay
scriptgirl
Active Member
- Joined
- May 1, 2006
- Messages
- 12,232
- Reaction score
- 5
ebay
scriptgirl
Active Member
- Joined
- May 1, 2006
- Messages
- 12,232
- Reaction score
- 5
cbs news
Philadelphia Magazine: Top 100 City Moments
Reporting
Ukee Washington
PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) ―
Click to enlarge CBS
1 of 1
Close
numSlides of totalImages
Related Slideshows
Holiday Lights 
2008 Year Of Weirdness 
Snapshots With Santa 
2008: Local Year In Review 
iWitness Snapshots 
2008 Celebrity Deaths 
Real Or Fake? 
Openly Gay Celebrities 
Celebrity Visits To CBS 3
A century of Philly facts! You won't find this in any history book. But you will find the Philly facts in the 100th Anniversary Issue of Philadelphia Magazine.
CBS 3's Ukee Washington lists just a few of the magazine top 100 moments in the City of Brotherly Love.
To borrow a line from a classic cop drama, there are 8 million stories in the naked city.
And there are 100 moments of this city's history in Philadelphia Magazine, all in a ranking of one to 100.
Philadelphia Magazine writer Michael Callahan says the ranking doesn't necessarily represent Philly's most important moments.
"This is what made us who we are," Callahan said. "How did we get here? What does it really mean to be a Philadelphian? That's what we really hope this list represents."
We can't tell you about all 100 but we can highlight a few.
Ranked at Number 2. The 1985 standoff between the black radical group Move and the city. It ended in horror when the city dropped a bomb on the group's West Philadelphia rowhouse. 11 people died.
"Something that was going to mark the city for decades, if not centuries," said Callahan of the tragedy.
With a ranking of eight, the completion in 1959 of the nearly always jammed Schuylkill Expressway.
More recently and coming in at number 6 is the Phillies 2008 World Series victory, despite all meteorological odds.
The Hollywood saga of Rocky ranks in the top five. The "Rocky Balboa" movie was the final chapter but Philadelphia's relationship with the gritty boxer lives on. Fiction or not he's a real hometown hero.
In the middle of the rankings pack is Hollywood star Grace Kelly and her real-life Cinderella wedding to the prince of Monaco in 1956.
"Grace Kelly established Philadelphia in an aura of glamour and celebrity," says Callahan
Philadelphia Magazine: Top 100 City Moments
Ukee Washington
PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) ―
1 of 1
Close
numSlides of totalImages
Related Slideshows
Holiday Lights 2008 Year Of Weirdness Snapshots With Santa 2008: Local Year In Review iWitness Snapshots 2008 Celebrity Deaths Real Or Fake? Openly Gay Celebrities Celebrity Visits To CBS 3 A century of Philly facts! You won't find this in any history book. But you will find the Philly facts in the 100th Anniversary Issue of Philadelphia Magazine.
CBS 3's Ukee Washington lists just a few of the magazine top 100 moments in the City of Brotherly Love.
To borrow a line from a classic cop drama, there are 8 million stories in the naked city.
And there are 100 moments of this city's history in Philadelphia Magazine, all in a ranking of one to 100.
Philadelphia Magazine writer Michael Callahan says the ranking doesn't necessarily represent Philly's most important moments.
"This is what made us who we are," Callahan said. "How did we get here? What does it really mean to be a Philadelphian? That's what we really hope this list represents."
We can't tell you about all 100 but we can highlight a few.
Ranked at Number 2. The 1985 standoff between the black radical group Move and the city. It ended in horror when the city dropped a bomb on the group's West Philadelphia rowhouse. 11 people died.
"Something that was going to mark the city for decades, if not centuries," said Callahan of the tragedy.
With a ranking of eight, the completion in 1959 of the nearly always jammed Schuylkill Expressway.
More recently and coming in at number 6 is the Phillies 2008 World Series victory, despite all meteorological odds.
The Hollywood saga of Rocky ranks in the top five. The "Rocky Balboa" movie was the final chapter but Philadelphia's relationship with the gritty boxer lives on. Fiction or not he's a real hometown hero.
In the middle of the rankings pack is Hollywood star Grace Kelly and her real-life Cinderella wedding to the prince of Monaco in 1956.
"Grace Kelly established Philadelphia in an aura of glamour and celebrity," says Callahan
scriptgirl
Active Member
- Joined
- May 1, 2006
- Messages
- 12,232
- Reaction score
- 5
houston chronicle
After the Sunset
Go to showtimes
By AMY BIANCOLLI Copyright 2004 FOR THE CHRONICLE
Jan. 14, 2005, 11:02AM
Share
Print
Email
Del.icio.us
Digg
Technorati
Yahoo! Buzz
Movie details
After the Sunset
MPAA Rating
PG-13
for sexuality, violence and language
Running Time
100 minutes
Released
Nov 12, 2004
(Nationwide)
Distributed By
New Line Cinema
Official Web Site
For just a second, pretend you're making a movie about a retired jewel thief with a mellifluous accent. He is tall and dark and yummy, and he lives a quiet life in a breezy, sun-dappled tourist paradise.
Now pretend the movie you're making is After the Sunset. You're deathly afraid of comparisons with To Catch a Thief, that classic Hitchcockian bonbon starring Cary Grant, Grace Kelly and an elegant succession of costume changes. Your movie is different -- it's more of a comedy, with buddy-flick overtones -- but still, you feel Hitch's long shadow darkening every shot. You can't avoid his rotund silhouette: It's ubiquitous and judgmental.
So, what do you do? You throw in not one, not two, but three direct references to the earlier film, hoping the outright homage will defuse criticism from film snobs or even -- dare to hope! -- make them feel warm and squishy about After the Sunset.
Whether such logic coursed through the brain of director Brett Ratner I can't say, but whatever tortured dialectic he used, I'm not falling for it. After the Sunset is about as flat-footed a heist caper as I've ever seen: clumsy where it should be graceful, lumpy where it should be sleek. It may covet a gem like a To Catch a Thief, but it doesn't yield one.
Pierce Brosnan stars as the mellifluous jewel thief, Max, who fled to a Caribbean island with his partner in all things, Lola (Salma Hayek), after the pair of them successfully lifted two of three colossal diamonds once embedded in the hilt of Napoleon's sword. Max and Lola's luxurious retirement is interrupted by the arrival of FBI agent Stan (Woody Harrelson), who's convinced that Max has his eye on the third Napoleon diamond, now on display in a cruise ship docked nearby.
Max says he has no intention of stealing the diamond. Stan doesn't believe him. Lola doesn't want Max to steal the diamond because she'd rather sit on her deck and watch the sunset, a Hallmark metaphor for peace and contentment (``Now the challenge is to find joy in simple things"). Then the skipper of the cruise ship says, ``We have the most sophisticated security system ever installed on a seagoing vessel," which is rather like the captain of the Titanic bragging about his lifeboats.
You know it's going to happen: At movie's end, the Napoleon diamond is getting snatched. But by whom? And how? Is Stan the key? Why is he such an idiot? Why did Max and Lola move to such a tourist trap, anyway? With all that money, couldn't they have bought a string of islands in, like, the South Pacific, where no one, especially Stan, could find them? After the Sunset's cat-burglar climax recalls The Return of the Pink Panther, but the humor doesn't: It's all gummed up with sentiment. And parts of the film have an incongruously sinister tone, especially the scenes featuring Don Cheadle as a pervy gangster with big ambitions. Cheadle's one of those immensely gifted actors that Hollywood doesn't know how to channel: He's too complex, his charisma built on intellect instead of abs. His presence is wasted in Ratner's film. Hitchcock's is wasted, too.
After the Sunset
Go to showtimes
By AMY BIANCOLLI Copyright 2004 FOR THE CHRONICLE
Jan. 14, 2005, 11:02AM
Share
Print Email Del.icio.usDiggTechnoratiYahoo! Buzz
Movie details
After the Sunset
MPAA Rating
PG-13
for sexuality, violence and language
Running Time
100 minutes
Released
Nov 12, 2004
(Nationwide)
Distributed By
New Line Cinema
Official Web Site
For just a second, pretend you're making a movie about a retired jewel thief with a mellifluous accent. He is tall and dark and yummy, and he lives a quiet life in a breezy, sun-dappled tourist paradise.
Now pretend the movie you're making is After the Sunset. You're deathly afraid of comparisons with To Catch a Thief, that classic Hitchcockian bonbon starring Cary Grant, Grace Kelly and an elegant succession of costume changes. Your movie is different -- it's more of a comedy, with buddy-flick overtones -- but still, you feel Hitch's long shadow darkening every shot. You can't avoid his rotund silhouette: It's ubiquitous and judgmental.
So, what do you do? You throw in not one, not two, but three direct references to the earlier film, hoping the outright homage will defuse criticism from film snobs or even -- dare to hope! -- make them feel warm and squishy about After the Sunset.
Whether such logic coursed through the brain of director Brett Ratner I can't say, but whatever tortured dialectic he used, I'm not falling for it. After the Sunset is about as flat-footed a heist caper as I've ever seen: clumsy where it should be graceful, lumpy where it should be sleek. It may covet a gem like a To Catch a Thief, but it doesn't yield one.
Pierce Brosnan stars as the mellifluous jewel thief, Max, who fled to a Caribbean island with his partner in all things, Lola (Salma Hayek), after the pair of them successfully lifted two of three colossal diamonds once embedded in the hilt of Napoleon's sword. Max and Lola's luxurious retirement is interrupted by the arrival of FBI agent Stan (Woody Harrelson), who's convinced that Max has his eye on the third Napoleon diamond, now on display in a cruise ship docked nearby.
Max says he has no intention of stealing the diamond. Stan doesn't believe him. Lola doesn't want Max to steal the diamond because she'd rather sit on her deck and watch the sunset, a Hallmark metaphor for peace and contentment (``Now the challenge is to find joy in simple things"). Then the skipper of the cruise ship says, ``We have the most sophisticated security system ever installed on a seagoing vessel," which is rather like the captain of the Titanic bragging about his lifeboats.
You know it's going to happen: At movie's end, the Napoleon diamond is getting snatched. But by whom? And how? Is Stan the key? Why is he such an idiot? Why did Max and Lola move to such a tourist trap, anyway? With all that money, couldn't they have bought a string of islands in, like, the South Pacific, where no one, especially Stan, could find them? After the Sunset's cat-burglar climax recalls The Return of the Pink Panther, but the humor doesn't: It's all gummed up with sentiment. And parts of the film have an incongruously sinister tone, especially the scenes featuring Don Cheadle as a pervy gangster with big ambitions. Cheadle's one of those immensely gifted actors that Hollywood doesn't know how to channel: He's too complex, his charisma built on intellect instead of abs. His presence is wasted in Ratner's film. Hitchcock's is wasted, too.
scriptgirl
Active Member
- Joined
- May 1, 2006
- Messages
- 12,232
- Reaction score
- 5
usa today
Philly fans can't wait; non-fans work out remote
USA TODAY staff reports
Philly fanatics eager for good cheer
The wait weighs heavily on Philadelphia. It has been nearly 22 years since its 76ers swept the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1983 NBA Finals, the last time a major sports team from the city won a title.
That's the longest such drought of any of the cities with teams in the four major leagues.
Chris Stefankiewicz, a 46-year-old mother of three, lives in Audubon, Pa., but grew up in northeast Philadelphia as an Eagles fan.
"I remember being excited about them going to the Super Bowl (in 1981), but I remember the crushing things so much more," Stefankiewicz says. "The last three years can break your heart, so I'm a little apprehensive."
Family members, depending on how the Eagles are doing, are considered antennas for good or bad luck when a game is on TV.
"A year ago, I had to stand in the kitchen," Stefankiewicz says. "Last week, we lost my husband in the laundry room."
An Eagles Christmas wreath has been up in the house since September. The only time it wasn't on was a loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers when the family was away. They've stayed at home with the wreath on for every game since.
Stars line up behind home team
This isn't just about Chowder vs. Cheesesteaks, Donovan McNabb vs. Tom Brady, Andy Reid vs. Bill Belichick or which city has the best beer ... Philadelphia's Yuengling or Boston's Sam Adams.
Beyond the office cubicles and water coolers, Super Bowl XXXIX is about bragging rights for some celebrity types. A few possible matchups:
Philadelphia boasts Will Smith; Boston brings Matt Damon.
For laughs, Philadelphia has Bill Cosby; Boston has Denis Leary.
Philadelphia lists Richard Gere; Boston has Ben Affleck.
Philadelphia's Boyz II Men against Boston's New Edition in a battle of boy bands.
Uma Thurman hails from Boston, with the best-known Philadelphia blonde being Grace Kelly.
Aerosmith hails from Boston, as does 1970s rock band Boston. Philadelphia is known for the O'Jays, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Patti LaBelle, Chubby Checker and Pink.
Elton John may have sung "Philadelphia Freedom," but the British pop star is a Patriots fan.
From Philly: NBA players Kobe Bryant and Rasheed Wallace, Wilt Chamberlain and Earl Monroe. From Boston, Rumeal Robinson and Patrick Ewing played at Ridge and Latin High in nearby Cambridge, Mass.
Boxers: John L. Sullivan and Rocky Marciano were from the Boston area, while Joe Frazier and Bernard Hopkins hail from Philly.
City ties begin in owners' boxes
The connections between New England and Philadelphia begin at the top, where the Patriots' Robert Kraft and the Eagles' Jeffrey Lurie are good friends and two of the NFL's most powerful owners. Their franchises are among the richest, too: The Patriots are worth $861 million, Forbes magazine reports, and the Eagles $830 million.
Indeed, Lurie, a native of Chestnut Hill, could have been sitting in the luxury box occupied by Kraft. Lurie once made a play to purchase the Patriots before buying the Eagles in 1994.
Lurie can be linked to Boston like a clam to chowder. He grew up a passionate fan of the Red Sox, Celtics, Bruins and Patriots (and still roots for the first three), so he could relate to a city's sports angst as the Eagles fell short of the Super Bowl. He also graduated from Clark University before earning a master's degree in psychology from Boston University and a Ph.D. in social policy from Brandeis.
• Among the players with ties to their opponent's hometown: Patriots center Dan Koppen grew up in Philadelphia; Eagles linebacker Keith Adams was born in Norwood, Mass., and is the son of former Patriots star Julius Adams; and Patriots linebacker Dan Klecko played college football in Philadelphia for the Temple Owls.
Non-fans can catch TV marathons
With the Super Bowl garnering a 56 television rating last season, other networks' counterprogramming can be an exercise in futility.
Fox carries this year's Super Bowl, but the other networks have to put something on. The programming generally falls into four categories: marathons of popular shows, more sports, shows of the Lifetime/Oxygen genre and people and their children do the oddest things.
•Marathons: TNT will hold a Charmed marathon, Bravo will carry 71/2 hours of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, USA Network will run a Monk marathon and Hallmark will carry Little House on the Prairie episodes as far as the eye can see. The celebrity minded will be able to see parts 1-5 of 101 Most Starlicious Makeovers on E!
•More sports: ESPN will go with figure skating, with the European Championships followed by the U.S. Championships. ESPN2 will rerun the 2004 World Series of Poker.
•People and their children do the oddest things: ABC will carry back-to-back episodes of America's Funniest Home Videos, including several clips on funny pinata incidents and video of people snoring. Pax will show America's Most Talented Kids, where seven children compete for a chance at stardom. After the local news, ABC will carry a special on child prodigies.
•Lifetime/Oxygen wannabes: By going with a series of estrogen-endorsed films such as What Women Want, TBS is hoping that it won't be pro football. That movie will be followed by Serendipity and The American President. VH1 counters with How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Why Do Fools Fall in Love. HBO might have the market cornered with two episodes of Sex and the City preceded by the aptly named Intolerable Cruelty.
Contributing: Jim Halley, Tom Spousta, USA TODAY
Philly fans can't wait; non-fans work out remote
USA TODAY staff reports
Philly fanatics eager for good cheer
The wait weighs heavily on Philadelphia. It has been nearly 22 years since its 76ers swept the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1983 NBA Finals, the last time a major sports team from the city won a title.
That's the longest such drought of any of the cities with teams in the four major leagues.
Chris Stefankiewicz, a 46-year-old mother of three, lives in Audubon, Pa., but grew up in northeast Philadelphia as an Eagles fan.
"I remember being excited about them going to the Super Bowl (in 1981), but I remember the crushing things so much more," Stefankiewicz says. "The last three years can break your heart, so I'm a little apprehensive."
Family members, depending on how the Eagles are doing, are considered antennas for good or bad luck when a game is on TV.
"A year ago, I had to stand in the kitchen," Stefankiewicz says. "Last week, we lost my husband in the laundry room."
An Eagles Christmas wreath has been up in the house since September. The only time it wasn't on was a loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers when the family was away. They've stayed at home with the wreath on for every game since.
Stars line up behind home team
This isn't just about Chowder vs. Cheesesteaks, Donovan McNabb vs. Tom Brady, Andy Reid vs. Bill Belichick or which city has the best beer ... Philadelphia's Yuengling or Boston's Sam Adams.
Beyond the office cubicles and water coolers, Super Bowl XXXIX is about bragging rights for some celebrity types. A few possible matchups:
Philadelphia boasts Will Smith; Boston brings Matt Damon.
For laughs, Philadelphia has Bill Cosby; Boston has Denis Leary.
Philadelphia lists Richard Gere; Boston has Ben Affleck.
Philadelphia's Boyz II Men against Boston's New Edition in a battle of boy bands.
Uma Thurman hails from Boston, with the best-known Philadelphia blonde being Grace Kelly.
Aerosmith hails from Boston, as does 1970s rock band Boston. Philadelphia is known for the O'Jays, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Patti LaBelle, Chubby Checker and Pink.
Elton John may have sung "Philadelphia Freedom," but the British pop star is a Patriots fan.
From Philly: NBA players Kobe Bryant and Rasheed Wallace, Wilt Chamberlain and Earl Monroe. From Boston, Rumeal Robinson and Patrick Ewing played at Ridge and Latin High in nearby Cambridge, Mass.
Boxers: John L. Sullivan and Rocky Marciano were from the Boston area, while Joe Frazier and Bernard Hopkins hail from Philly.
City ties begin in owners' boxes
The connections between New England and Philadelphia begin at the top, where the Patriots' Robert Kraft and the Eagles' Jeffrey Lurie are good friends and two of the NFL's most powerful owners. Their franchises are among the richest, too: The Patriots are worth $861 million, Forbes magazine reports, and the Eagles $830 million.
Indeed, Lurie, a native of Chestnut Hill, could have been sitting in the luxury box occupied by Kraft. Lurie once made a play to purchase the Patriots before buying the Eagles in 1994.
Lurie can be linked to Boston like a clam to chowder. He grew up a passionate fan of the Red Sox, Celtics, Bruins and Patriots (and still roots for the first three), so he could relate to a city's sports angst as the Eagles fell short of the Super Bowl. He also graduated from Clark University before earning a master's degree in psychology from Boston University and a Ph.D. in social policy from Brandeis.
• Among the players with ties to their opponent's hometown: Patriots center Dan Koppen grew up in Philadelphia; Eagles linebacker Keith Adams was born in Norwood, Mass., and is the son of former Patriots star Julius Adams; and Patriots linebacker Dan Klecko played college football in Philadelphia for the Temple Owls.
Non-fans can catch TV marathons
With the Super Bowl garnering a 56 television rating last season, other networks' counterprogramming can be an exercise in futility.
Fox carries this year's Super Bowl, but the other networks have to put something on. The programming generally falls into four categories: marathons of popular shows, more sports, shows of the Lifetime/Oxygen genre and people and their children do the oddest things.
•Marathons: TNT will hold a Charmed marathon, Bravo will carry 71/2 hours of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, USA Network will run a Monk marathon and Hallmark will carry Little House on the Prairie episodes as far as the eye can see. The celebrity minded will be able to see parts 1-5 of 101 Most Starlicious Makeovers on E!
•More sports: ESPN will go with figure skating, with the European Championships followed by the U.S. Championships. ESPN2 will rerun the 2004 World Series of Poker.
•People and their children do the oddest things: ABC will carry back-to-back episodes of America's Funniest Home Videos, including several clips on funny pinata incidents and video of people snoring. Pax will show America's Most Talented Kids, where seven children compete for a chance at stardom. After the local news, ABC will carry a special on child prodigies.
•Lifetime/Oxygen wannabes: By going with a series of estrogen-endorsed films such as What Women Want, TBS is hoping that it won't be pro football. That movie will be followed by Serendipity and The American President. VH1 counters with How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Why Do Fools Fall in Love. HBO might have the market cornered with two episodes of Sex and the City preceded by the aptly named Intolerable Cruelty.
Contributing: Jim Halley, Tom Spousta, USA TODAY
scriptgirl
Active Member
- Joined
- May 1, 2006
- Messages
- 12,232
- Reaction score
- 5
fox news
Prince Albert to Attend Newport FestivalThursday, August 10, 2006
By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Prince Albert II of Monaco will attend the opening-night concert of the Newport Jazz Festival on Friday, part of an anniversary celebration of the 1956 film"High Society,"which starred his mother, Grace Kelly.
Set against the scenic backdrop of Newport and its storied mansions,"High Society"was Kelly's last film before her marriage to Prince Rainier III. She then became Princess Grace.
The musical comedy also starred Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, with original music by Cole Porter. Louis Armstrong sang the title song.
The Friday-night concert, a tribute to Sinatra, will be performed by guitarist and vocalist John Pizzarelli, who opened concerts for Ol'Blue Eyes in the early 1990s.
"There's an extra, added excitement to the whole thing,"Pizzarelli said in a phone interview from his country home in New York State."It's more than just a music story, it seems, at this point."
The weekend festivities will include a private dinner-dance gala for Albert, 48, at Marble House, constructed as a Vanderbilt family summer"cottage,"where"High Society"will be screened in different rooms.
"Newport has always been the sort of resort of royalty in the northeastern United States,"said Brian O'Neill, owner of the Carnegie Abbey Club in nearby Portsmouth. The exclusive golf, equestrian and yachting club invited Albert to Newport.
(Story continues below)
Founded in 1954 and now formally known as the JVC Jazz Festival-Newport, the festival has hosted a who's who of jazz over the years.
Miles Davis made a memorable comeback performance at a jam session in 1955, followed a year later by Duke Ellington and his orchestra. Sinatra, Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane and Harry Connick Jr. have also played Newport.
The festival runs through Sunday. Other featured performers include jazz guitarist George Benson and pianist Dave Brubeck.
Festival founder George Wein, now 80, said he was looking forward to meeting Albert, and acknowledged that his attendance was good for publicity.
"If he comes to Newport and he wants to see jazz, he's got to be a nice guy,"Wein said."Nice people go to jazz festivals."
___
On the Net:
Prince Albert to Attend Newport FestivalThursday, August 10, 2006
By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press Writer
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Prince Albert II of Monaco will attend the opening-night concert of the Newport Jazz Festival on Friday, part of an anniversary celebration of the 1956 film"High Society,"which starred his mother, Grace Kelly.
Set against the scenic backdrop of Newport and its storied mansions,"High Society"was Kelly's last film before her marriage to Prince Rainier III. She then became Princess Grace.
The musical comedy also starred Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, with original music by Cole Porter. Louis Armstrong sang the title song.
The Friday-night concert, a tribute to Sinatra, will be performed by guitarist and vocalist John Pizzarelli, who opened concerts for Ol'Blue Eyes in the early 1990s.
"There's an extra, added excitement to the whole thing,"Pizzarelli said in a phone interview from his country home in New York State."It's more than just a music story, it seems, at this point."
The weekend festivities will include a private dinner-dance gala for Albert, 48, at Marble House, constructed as a Vanderbilt family summer"cottage,"where"High Society"will be screened in different rooms.
"Newport has always been the sort of resort of royalty in the northeastern United States,"said Brian O'Neill, owner of the Carnegie Abbey Club in nearby Portsmouth. The exclusive golf, equestrian and yachting club invited Albert to Newport.
(Story continues below)
ADVERTISEMENTS
Founded in 1954 and now formally known as the JVC Jazz Festival-Newport, the festival has hosted a who's who of jazz over the years.
Miles Davis made a memorable comeback performance at a jam session in 1955, followed a year later by Duke Ellington and his orchestra. Sinatra, Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane and Harry Connick Jr. have also played Newport.
The festival runs through Sunday. Other featured performers include jazz guitarist George Benson and pianist Dave Brubeck.
Festival founder George Wein, now 80, said he was looking forward to meeting Albert, and acknowledged that his attendance was good for publicity.
"If he comes to Newport and he wants to see jazz, he's got to be a nice guy,"Wein said."Nice people go to jazz festivals."
___
On the Net:
scriptgirl
Active Member
- Joined
- May 1, 2006
- Messages
- 12,232
- Reaction score
- 5
NYT
9:30 P.M. (TCM) REAR WINDOW (1954). -- In this Hitchcock classic, James Stewart (below, with Grace Kelly) plays a photographer laid up with a broken leg who, out of boredom, spies on his neighbors and is soon convinced that one of them has been murdered. Luckily, in the evenings, he has his expensively dressed Park Avenue girlfriend (Kelly) to look at instead.
9:30 P.M. (TCM) REAR WINDOW (1954). -- In this Hitchcock classic, James Stewart (below, with Grace Kelly) plays a photographer laid up with a broken leg who, out of boredom, spies on his neighbors and is soon convinced that one of them has been murdered. Luckily, in the evenings, he has his expensively dressed Park Avenue girlfriend (Kelly) to look at instead.
scriptgirl
Active Member
- Joined
- May 1, 2006
- Messages
- 12,232
- Reaction score
- 5
asia times
Front Page
COMMENT
John Lehman on the warpath
By Tom Barry
Blame the CIA. That's a political agenda that has found bipartisan support in the US Congress. Both the right and the left saw the departure of Central Intelligence Agency chief George Tenet as a first step toward improving US intelligence capabilities.
This month two bipartisan committees - the independent 9-11 Commission and the Senate Intelligence Committee - reviewing US counter-terrorism policy and the George W Bush administration's response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, have fingered the CIA as having led the US government astray. This assessment conflicts with the popular assumption that right-wing politics and ideology have driven all decisions by the Bush administration, including the war on Iraq. But rather than blaming the politicization of intelligence, the congressional bodies have followed the traditional route of scapegoating the CIA.
One of the most vocal critics of the CIA's performance has been John F Lehman Jr, former navy secretary under the late president Ronald Reagan and member of the independent 9-11 Commission, which will release its final report this month. Lehman is also a leading candidate to replace Tenet as director of central intelligence.
The present danger, then and now
Over the past four decades Lehman has been a consistent advocate of US military supremacy and ever-increasing military budgets. During his tenure as navy secretary, he oversaw the expansion of the US naval fleet in opposition to many in the navy who believed that the young hot-shot - who took over the job at the age of 38 - vastly overestimated the Soviet threat. He pushed out highly regarded officers such as Admiral Hyman Rickover, while winning the admiration and friendship of the most ideologically driven members of the Reagan administrations, such as assistant defense secretary Richard Perle and national security adviser Robert McFarlane.
Unlike many of the neo-conservatives and militarists who have shaped and supported the aggressive foreign policy of Bush, Lehman is no chicken hawk. As a naval reserve officer, Lehman flew combat missions during the Vietnam War. But he has long traveled in the same ideological circles of the militarist right wing. He has been a longtime critic of the CIA, not because of its propensity for covert operations but because of its passivity and timid threat assessments. He blames the CIA for misleading assessments of the tactics of the Vietnamese guerrilla armies and for downplaying Soviet military strength.
Lehman's ideological and class origins have catapulted him into national politics and into the center of the military-industrial complex. A scion of one of Philadelphia's oldest and wealthiest families, Lehman owns an investment firm and sits on the board of directors of numerous corporations, many of which are major defense contractors. His credentials as a navy secretary dedicated to expanding the fleet and technological capabilities of the US Navy, combined with his family background in investment banking, have made Lehman a major figure in the new frontier of private equity investing in aerospace and defense industries. A member of Philadelphia's high society, Lehman can trace his family line back to an aide to William Penn, founder of the Quaker colony. The late Grace Kelly was Lehman's cousin and, while a student at Cambridge, he frequently spent weekends at the palace of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace in Monaco.
Front Page
COMMENT
John Lehman on the warpath
By Tom Barry
Blame the CIA. That's a political agenda that has found bipartisan support in the US Congress. Both the right and the left saw the departure of Central Intelligence Agency chief George Tenet as a first step toward improving US intelligence capabilities.
This month two bipartisan committees - the independent 9-11 Commission and the Senate Intelligence Committee - reviewing US counter-terrorism policy and the George W Bush administration's response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, have fingered the CIA as having led the US government astray. This assessment conflicts with the popular assumption that right-wing politics and ideology have driven all decisions by the Bush administration, including the war on Iraq. But rather than blaming the politicization of intelligence, the congressional bodies have followed the traditional route of scapegoating the CIA.
One of the most vocal critics of the CIA's performance has been John F Lehman Jr, former navy secretary under the late president Ronald Reagan and member of the independent 9-11 Commission, which will release its final report this month. Lehman is also a leading candidate to replace Tenet as director of central intelligence.
The present danger, then and now
Over the past four decades Lehman has been a consistent advocate of US military supremacy and ever-increasing military budgets. During his tenure as navy secretary, he oversaw the expansion of the US naval fleet in opposition to many in the navy who believed that the young hot-shot - who took over the job at the age of 38 - vastly overestimated the Soviet threat. He pushed out highly regarded officers such as Admiral Hyman Rickover, while winning the admiration and friendship of the most ideologically driven members of the Reagan administrations, such as assistant defense secretary Richard Perle and national security adviser Robert McFarlane.
Unlike many of the neo-conservatives and militarists who have shaped and supported the aggressive foreign policy of Bush, Lehman is no chicken hawk. As a naval reserve officer, Lehman flew combat missions during the Vietnam War. But he has long traveled in the same ideological circles of the militarist right wing. He has been a longtime critic of the CIA, not because of its propensity for covert operations but because of its passivity and timid threat assessments. He blames the CIA for misleading assessments of the tactics of the Vietnamese guerrilla armies and for downplaying Soviet military strength.
Lehman's ideological and class origins have catapulted him into national politics and into the center of the military-industrial complex. A scion of one of Philadelphia's oldest and wealthiest families, Lehman owns an investment firm and sits on the board of directors of numerous corporations, many of which are major defense contractors. His credentials as a navy secretary dedicated to expanding the fleet and technological capabilities of the US Navy, combined with his family background in investment banking, have made Lehman a major figure in the new frontier of private equity investing in aerospace and defense industries. A member of Philadelphia's high society, Lehman can trace his family line back to an aide to William Penn, founder of the Quaker colony. The late Grace Kelly was Lehman's cousin and, while a student at Cambridge, he frequently spent weekends at the palace of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace in Monaco.
scriptgirl
Active Member
- Joined
- May 1, 2006
- Messages
- 12,232
- Reaction score
- 5
Hulton
Last edited by a moderator:
scriptgirl
Active Member
- Joined
- May 1, 2006
- Messages
- 12,232
- Reaction score
- 5
Maxxppp
thanks nmyngan for that photoshootshe really is a natural beauty
thanks to srepac at simplyclassics
you are so welcome, Kochie, love the pic too.
interfoto
