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...Countess” is a fitting end to their legendary partnership. Fiennes plays Todd Jackson, a blind former diplomat who starts his own nightclub after losing both his wife and daughter in a tragic act of terrorism (which caused his blindness). When Jackson crosses paths with a comely Russian Countess (Natasha Richardson), he finds his muse and the film finds its title. The Russian Countess Sofia Belinsky, booted from her woe-begotten homeland, is a high-society call girl, who reluctantly assumes the profession to prevent her young daughter Katya from succumbing to the same fate. Sofia is a tragic...
...exercises like The Wave, in which a near abstract surf of marble/onyx rises above three capering nudes. But the Detroit show is frank in acknowledging the timidity, repetition and sheer mediocrity of some of her late work. Yet even when she was turning out retrograde sculptural commissions for the Countess de Maigret, who served for a time as her patron, she could not help sometimes but to produce them with authority. Perseus and the Gorgon, in which the son of Zeus holds high the severed head of Medusa while her winged body collapses in a long arc around his feet...
...when Countess Simonetta Brandolini d'Adda, an American who has lived in Florence with her Italian husband for 30 years, saw the need to help protect and preserve the city's staggering cultural legacy, she thought of her own countrymen. "So many Americans have a special rapport with Florence," says Brandolini, who sells and rents out luxury Italian properties through her real-estate agency, The Best in Italy. "They come back to Florence all the time." Thus in 1998 was born Friends of Florence, fashioned after the nonprofit art and architecture preservation foundation, Save Venice. Although based in Washington...
...Rita Dove provides you with gorgeously written advice to a young writer—“Writing poetry is one way of singing, of molding the ache of life into a beautiful shape”—it will quickly be forgotten in light of model/artist Vera Countess von Lehndorff’s vacant words a few pages later: “Life is like a bubble floating on the wind. It can vanish any moment.” Make your readers bemoan the fact that with more selective editing, this book could have been interesting, moving...
...singer and film star billed in the U.S. as the "thinking man's Marlene Dietrich"; of a lung infection; in Berlin. The diva who scandalized church officials with a fleeting nude scene in the 1951 German film The Sinner was best known in the U.S. for her role as Countess Liz in 1952's The Snows of Kilimanjaro with Gregory Peck...