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Mickey Rooney 21 Ava Gardner 17 months 7 movie star...
...Italy for his first film at home in 15 years, yet his Stealing Beauty was also an English-language film--and a largely ludicrous one, filled with an international idle-class group of poseurs and gossips, all fawning over 19-year-old Liv Tyler. Her face, with its alluring Ava Gardner eyes and Halloween waxed lips reminiscent of her father's (Aerosmith's Steven Tyler), was plastered on billboards all over Cannes. It gave a clue to the triumph, at the Frenchiest festival around, of America the beautiful and banal...
DIED. LUIS MIGUEL DOMINGUIN, 69, bullfighter whose rivalry with toreador brother-in-law Antonio Ordonez was immortalized by Ernest Hemingway; following a stroke; in Sotogrande, Spain. His affairs with screen idols Ava Gardner and Lana Turner were chronicled in loving detail by gossip columnists...
...even when his clients have money, Koolhaas doesn't spend it on materials. The Villa Dall'Ava, outside Paris, cost $485,000, yet the architect still used orange plastic webbing, familiar from construction sites, for a balustrade on the roof. One room on the ground floor is surrounded on three sides by glass, which can be opened to the outside or enclosed by a curtain--almost like a hospital bed--for more intimacy. The clients asked for a "masterpiece," and they got an adventure. Neighbors, on the other hand, so opposed the plan that the house had to be fought...
...book's second section, Atwood looks outward to mythology, both ancient (Helen of Troy, Troilus and Cressida) and contemporary (Ava Gardner), often weighing in with satirical observations about sexual politics. In "Miss July Grows Older," another version of the modern myth, an aging pin-up girl comes to represent sexual charlatanry of all kinds ("Men were a skill," "Don't get me wrong: with the lights out/I'd still take on anyone"). The narrative voice is reminiscent of the prickly teenage heroine...