Patrick Maber who wrote the screen play for ‘Closer’ is now working on adapting the novel ‘Notes from a scandal’
Watch out for an hilarious new Brit movie, a mockumentary, called ‘Rabbit Fever’ : about a vibrator and how an epidemic of nubile women the world over become addicted to it, starting 12 step rabbit anonymous groups ( never work with animals or children)!
CondeNast Traveller recommends http://www.ultimateears.com for the best noise canceling earplugs ( on a plane) $900!!
Feeling naughty? Stay at the College hotel in Lyon, France that was a school in a previous life and has kept alot of the old interiors (but all the hotel rooms are the chic and white) http://www.college-hotel.com/
Want Larry King to show you around Washington? Sigourney Weaver to show you around Lower Manhattan? Then go to http://www.talkingstreet.com/ And connect a recorded tour of the cities to your mobile phone for your own personal celebrity travel guide.
Check out http://www.islandoutpost.com for the best resorts in Jamaica: Wow! ( there’s a special package for Bob Marley’s 60th Birthday! )
In Paris check out the groovy new store of Worldstyle Design, now on Blvd St Germain , set up by the grandsons of Lanvin.
In London go to the Matisse Textiles collection exhibition at The Royal Academy, March to May.
Browns Hotel in London is being updated and is reopening in March.
To get right into the Bling backlash go to the Intenational Arts and Crafts exhibit at the V& A in London March to July.
WWD says that Milan fashion week got off to a sluggish — and grumpy — start on Monday. Strikes by Alitalia workers delayed the arrival of top editors from Elle, l’Officiel and other French magazines and otherwise wreaked havoc with a city already prone to gridlock. Adding to the woes was a steady snowfall slowing the advance of Town Cars and staining new suede shoes. Tempers flared outside of Prada Monday night as editors arriving for the second show were asked to wait outside under a damp snowfall. “Just let us in,” pleaded Vanity Fair’s fashion director Anne McNally (rain hail or shine)
A handsome, six-foot-three hunk in the front rows has created more buzz during the Milan collections than what’s on the runway. But James Cracknell is a star — from the world of sport. The Olympic champion rower, who won two gold medals for the U.K., is on special assignment for London’s Telegraph Magazine. “I’m writing about what I would like to see women wear,” Cracknell explained. “What normal guys think looks sexy.” (Let me guess…)
In Paris check out the new store of designer Karine O’Hana Berrebi at 62 Rue des Saints-Pères.
Or go to the new restaurant ‘Auguste’, 54 Rue de Bourgogne.
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