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Most of all, he couldn't focus on living there while his buddies were dying in Iraq. His mother Ava Tomson says, "He felt like the things he was doing in his job were insignificant compared to protecting his guys...
...studded shoes and lavish, Vegas-style embroidery--appear to be allergic to sobriety. Gucci designer Frida Giannini turned to the 1940s and the gunmetal-gray palette of wartime heroines like photographer Lee Miller. For Dior, John Galliano tried on a reverential perspective, paying homage to giant clients like Ava Gardner with beaded satin entrance makers. In both cases, their studied opulence seemed to miss this moment's modernist beat...
...decade, Sinatra pushed to make a cohesive LP at a time when no one else in the record business was thinking beyond singles. Finally his breakup with Ava Gardner provided the perfect catalyst. These 16 ballads, recorded in just a few days, are the authoritative take on masculine loneliness...
Kobal includes some exuberant memoirs. Producer Arthur Freed reconstructs the difficult casting of Show Boat: "I love Dinah [Shore], and she finally said: 'Why don't you give me the part?' And I said: 'Because you're not a whore . . . Ava is.'" Joel McCrea explains his laconic independence: "I owned 1,000 acres, which I paid very little for, and which I sold for $5 million...
Worthingtons had lived in Truro for generations. In fact, one of the first rescue workers at the scene was Christa's cousin. Christa had moved there from New York City to care for her sick mother. She had had an affair with a local fisherman, which produced Ava. After her mother died, Christa decided to stay. In her shingled house on a hill, surrounded by a tangle of spindly trees, she had started a new life, although not necessarily a frictionless one. What with family strains and frustrated romances, there were plenty of obvious suspects. Semen was found on Worthington...