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Elton John and Madonna have made up, but why do famous people publicly go to war?

The Observer 13 Apr 2025
Madonna and Elton John have kissed and made up ... Her ensuing Instagram post, liked 420,605 times and counting, said ... Madonna continued ... “It’s not necessarily professional ... In US literary circles, Gore Vidal remarked of fellow author Truman Capote’s death.
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Three dead siblings and Ted Hughes: a strange true crime story

The Times/The Sunday Times 11 Apr 2025
BETA. Today's Quizle. Q. Test your knowledge ... Now it has been reissued and plumped up with juicy new details — including how a. certain poet with a “dray-horse face” stuck his “senatorial nose” in ... Books ... Truman Capote’s chilling classic In Cold Blood.
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Reading retreats led by bibliophiles and best-selling authors are the latest luxury travel trend

New York Post 10 Apr 2025
You may feel like your coworkers are illiterate, but the reality is that Americans are reading more, not less ... 6 ... Past Yaddo artists include James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath and Truman Capote, plus Edith Wharton’s last novel, “The Buccaneers” and E.L.
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Hal Frederick, trailblazing Venice restaurateur and owner of Hal’s Bar and Grill, dies at 91

The Los Angeles Times 08 Apr 2025
He was 91 ... A 1989 Times article described Robert’s as “a Venice restaurant-disco that was a West Coast terminus for Bianca Jagger and Truman Capote.” Following Robert’s, Frederick worked at Venice’s West Beach Cafe as maitre d’ ... And it worked ... No TV.
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America is about to be hit by a 'tsunami' of authentic Chinese restaurants

Business Insider 05 Apr 2025
The midtown Manhattan building where Jackie Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, and Truman Capote once dined, then the legendary French restaurant La Grenouille, is now a nondescript renovation site with wood, ...
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Richard Chamberlain, TV heartthrob and ‘king of the miniseries,’ dies at 90

The Spokesman-Review 30 Mar 2025
He was 90. The cause was complications from a stroke, said his publicist, Harlan Boll ... Chamberlin made a disastrous attempt in 1966 to conquer Broadway in a musical version of Truman Capote’s novella “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” that closed in previews ... Mr.
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Afdera Franchetti, fourth wife of Henry Fonda with admirers from Hemingway to Greta Garbo – obituary

The Daily Telegraph 29 Mar 2025
Truman Capote walked in on her while she was having a bath to make a reconnaissance of her cosmetic tubes, bottles and jars.
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Beyond Blue Beam

Weekly News 26 Mar 2025
Dear Readers, ... Starting next week, full access will require a small subscription fee ... thank you ... Dr ... DeMille, and Liza Minnelli; writers like Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, and Rod Serling, who created The Twilight Zone; and even Nelson Rockefeller.
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Stories by Harper Lee to appear for the first time in a new collection

Daily Press 25 Mar 2025
... and eight pieces of nonfiction that Lee published in various outlets between 1961 and 2006, including a profile of her friend, writer Truman Capote, a cornbread recipe and a letter to Oprah Winfrey.
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The New Yorker at 100: ‘We live in a world of misinformation ... a lack of verification. Our readers want what we do’

The Observer 23 Mar 2025
... on the political agenda; Hannah Arendt’s report from the Adolf Eichmann trial that examined the banality of evil; and Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, which effectively invented the true crime genre.
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