A 1917 men’s urinal has been voted the most influential artwork of the 20th century in a poll of the great and good of Britain’s art world. The white porcelain urinal was mounted upside down in a New York Gallery by French artist Marcel Duchamp, who in one of the very earliest examples of conceptualism, declared it was art simply because he stated this was so.
“My mother and I thought Karl would design the best gown for me,” said Bee Shaffer, the 17-year-old daughter of Anna Wintour, about the Lagerfeld-designed Chanel gown she wore to the annual debutante ball at the Crillon Hotel Saturday night. Lulu De La Falaise watched her daughter along with other proud parents including Mikhail Gorbachev whose granddaughter, Versace-clad was whirled around by Europe’s most eligible bachelors.WWD
Zang Ziyi from Hidden Dragon will be in ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ ( average book)
‘A very Long Engagement’ is a new French movie, a mix of Amelie and Cold Mountain ( great book)
Finding Neverland has been named best film of 2004 by The National Board of Review, UK, the first major prize of the movie award season.
Run Lola Run” director Tom Tykwer will helm “Perfume: The Story of a Murder”, an 18th century period thriller based on the best selling novel from Patrick Suskind. (fantastic book). British rising-star Ben Whishaw will play Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a man born with no odor but a super-refined sense of smell. Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman are expected to co-star
Sacha Baron Cohen (a.k.a. Ali G) is working to star in “The Mortdecai Mustache Mystery,” a film project based on a series of British comic thriller books by Kyril Bonfiglioli and Craig Brown.
Tony Goldwyn (“A Walk on the Moon”) is set to direct “Last Kiss,” an American remake of the Italian romantic dramedy, “L’Ultimo Bacio.” Zach Braff (Garden State”) and Rachel McAdams (“The Notebook”) will be in it.
Go to http://www.eyestorm.com, the art website and buy a Damian Hirst Painting by Numbers 2, 2001. This edition consists of a stamped Hirst canvas (printed with a 90-dot pattern), 90 individually numbered, miniature tins of paint, and 90 brushes, all packaged in the artist’s distinctive pharmaceutical style. The two versions of this work, 1 and 2, are differentiated by their packaging and the color combinations of the spots. The box is signed by the artist for £5,500 (£6,462.50 inc. VAT)!
Please hire the Villa for New Year at http://www.roundhilljamaica.com/Or just go to
The QM2, The huge new Ocean Liner has a Canyon Ranch spa with 20,000 square feet of pampering and a pool (with a waterfall)…Do a virtual tour (Be warned it’s not groovy) http://www.cunard.com/tourQM2/
Please stay here in this cute Maison D’Hote in the south of France, so simple. http://www.lalouveterie.com/
Do a tour of your favourite (or least favourite) book The Da Vinci Code in London in a private car that follows the Holy Grail Trail www.britishtours.com/davincicodetours.html
Australian Virgin Mobile, is going to offer a new service to help stop you from drunk dialing your ex or your boss. You just call up a number, enter the number you want to make sure you don’t call, and then you’re automatically blocked from making calls from that phone until 6am, by which point you’ll probably be passed out on a sidewalk somewhere. It does require you to remember when you’re not drunk that you have this bad habit of making booty calls when you are drunk.( hic)
TRACEY EMIN was at the premiere of her new film, Top Spot but it was withdrawn from general release recently when censors awarded it an 18 certificate.
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