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COVER: Digital photomontage by Arthur Hochstein. Photos from 20th Century Fox, Universal and Miramax. Crowe by Nigel Parry...
...tastefully nude calendar in 1999 to raise money for leukemia research, Calendar Girls (out in the U.K. this week, the rest of Europe soon after) is a celebration of mature beauty with a giddy playfulness usually reserved for twentysomething romantic comedies. We don't know what director Nigel Cole said to convince some of Britain's most beloved actresses to bare all, but he didn't just want them for their bodies. Helen Mirren is superb as Chris, the brains behind the project. In a turnaround from her reserved roles in Gosford Park and Last Orders, she's wickedly witty...
...half a dozen appetizers, Lawson launches into her professional history. She tells a good tale, deftly mixing the grandiose and ironic (a recipe in her first book begins, "I first had salsa verde when I was a chambermaid in Florence...") with a healthy sprinkling of famous names. Her father Nigel was a journalist before becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer under Margaret Thatcher. After graduating from Oxford, Nigella followed her father into journalism at the Sunday Times of London. Soon she veered into her mother's territory (Vanessa Lawson was an heiress to a chain of tea shops) and started writing...
...works of art that represent the late 20th century. Sewell thought Saatchi intended one day to hand over his collection, but now "he's gone off on a trip of his own. He realizes that his connoisseurship is so much more exciting" than Tate Modern's. Saatchi Gallery director Nigel Hurst says that Tate Modern looks after the last century, whereas the new gallery focuses on the last 20 years: "It's very much art of the moment." Saatchi has donated some works to the nation, including gifts to the Arts Council Collection and to NHS hospitals. He will continue...
...Word on the street is that he pines for Mary Kelly ’04, who is exceeding clever, but unfortunately Irish. “She is more fit to be a chambermaid than a bride,” sniffed Spencer’s father, Lord Nigel Spencer...