Word: ava
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Ferragamo was both couturier and courtier. The exhibition features many pictures of the natty shoemaker on bended knee, cradling the foot of one of his glamorous customers, like Sophia Loren, the Duchess of Windsor (who, he said, had perfect feet) and Ava Gardner. He was an artist for hire who worked for the new royalty of the 20th century: movie stars and socialites. Such clients tested his ingenuity. To fulfill the request of an Indian princess, he once fabricated a shoe of hummingbird feathers. But Ferragamo asserted that he was designing shoes not for the personality of the customer...
...Ava Gardner SHOW BOAT. She received mixed reviews for her 1951 portrayal of mixed-blood singer Julie La Verne, a part denied to Lena Horne. Gardner's songs were dubbed for the film...
While she tracks the Trumps, Liz continues to trail other celebs. A recent column crowed that "terrific, sexy" actor Alec Baldwin (The Hunt for Red October) was "busy, busy" and that Ava Gardner's grave had been stripped of flowers by fans. Observed the columnist without a smidgen of irony: "The price celebrities pay for their success is a lack of privacy." Bite your tongue...
...very scientific-minded when he was growing up," said Ava Gulick, his sophomore biology teacher at Pendleton High...