Word: audrey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps hoping to move her image Audrey Hepburn-ward, Julia Roberts flew to Haiti last week to act as unicef's goodwill ambassador to the newly democratic but still impoverished country. The actress visited orphanages, vaccination programs and schools. But while delighting the people of Haiti, she disappointed the folks at Disney by taking a pass on its script for the Pretty Woman sequel...
...watch the classic comedies, has acute ad-lib analyses of the pantheon residents. On Carole Lombard: "Elegant, but a little blue collar. She's not afraid to be funny at her own expense." Rosalind Russell: "A real quick draw, the fastest of them all, and extremely comfortable with winning." Audrey Hepburn: "In a class by herself. She was mysterious, but totally vulnerable and accessible. There was a light in her eye. And she loved being a woman...
While Tom named some of his plants after Twin Peaks characters (Catherine, Laura Palmer, Audrey) and Johnny often plays music to his "little ones," Mel decided that he didn't want to become too attached to his plants. "It's like in the olden days, when parents wouldn't name their kids until they were three or four years old because of the high death rate," he says...
...English designer John Galliano, meanwhile, was the chief prophet of another theme in the fall collections: Hollywood-inspired '40s retro glamour. His suits and dresses were stiletto-slim, with huge, dramatic sleeves or swaths of material around the shoulders or waist. Jackie wouldn't wear one of these, and Audrey would be overwhelmed in one, but it is easy to imagine Joan Crawford or Bette Davis stalking an errant lover using the costume as a weapon. Ghost, designed by Tanya Sarne -- who is also English -- was back in the black-and-white era too: waterfall dresses, flowing crepe trousers...
...made by Paris' reigning couturier, Cristobal Balenciaga, but the great man turned her away. The rejected muse then turned to another, younger designer, and it was rare affection at first sight. Eventually she called him her greatest friend, almost like a psychiatrist. He referred to her as a sister. Audrey Hepburn and Hubert de Givenchy...