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...long," said ex-Model Marisa Berenson, 28, as she recalled her difficulties with 18th century plumbing in Stanley Kubrick's new film Barry Lyndon. The movie, based on William Thackeray's novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon, features Ryan O'Neal as a young Irish rogue looking for wealth and Marisa as the countess who supplies it by marrying him. The bathtub, where she goes to brood after catching Ryan flirting with another girl, proved to be as annoying as it was authentic. "They had to keep rilling it with hot water. And since there...
After Oxford, Clark became a protege of the art collector and critic Bernard Berenson. (His devastating vignette of B.B. in these pages is a small classic by itself.) Before he was 30 he had been appointed director of the National Gallery, and was on his way to becoming Lord Clark of Saltwood, the most influential tastemaker in the London art world...
...Gardner bought what she liked--that was her only criteria. Bernard Berenson (who would will his Florentine villa to Harvard) was her European buyer; he found that the best way to sell her anything was to claim it had been painted for, or had belonged to, an Isabella. She bought one of the world's 36 Vermeers because she found it "charming," and a portrait of Mary Tudor because the queen wears a pearl that once belonged to Isabella of Spain...
Born. To Anthony Perkins, 41, laconic star of Psycho, Friendly Persuasion, and co-author of The Last of Sheila, and Berinthia ("Berry") Berenson, 25, a freelance photographer and granddaughter of Paris Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Osgood Robert...
...firsts, among them tailored evening jackets, the use of synthetic fabrics and the color, shocking pink. Schiaparelli closed her couture house-where her designs had been sold for as much as $5,000-in 1954, and later reappeared in the spotlight as the grandmother of Celebrities Marisa and Berry Berenson...