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...considerable artistic coup of the producers and director Justin Lin (who also helmed the third episode, Tokyo Drift) is to reunite the cast of the 2001 film: Diesel as superdriver Dominic Toretto, Paul Walker as FBI agent Brian O'Conner, Jordana Brewster as Dom's sister Mia and Michelle Rodriguez as his girlfriend Letty. Iconographically, the two male leads balance nicely, since Walker boasts California good looks - half surfer boy, half altar boy - and a face that reads as clean-shaven even with his careful stubble. And Diesel and M-Rod are a perfect pair. She showed off her muscular...
Rome-ing Heart. Rome Cavalieri, part of the Waldorf-Astoria collection of luxury hotels, brings out the big guns. Dazzle your opera-loving sweetheart with a private in-room performance by a tenor, followed by a ride in a vintage Rolls-Royce Silver Spur, a bottle of Dom Perignon Rosé, red roses and a gift from Tiffany's. At $1,290 per night, all this glamour doesn't come cheap. But, hey, your 401(k) isn't going to buy you much in 20 years anyway. Via Alberto Cadlolo 101, +39-06-3509-1 (See 10 things...
Even More Sparkly. For people you really like, Dom Pérignon, the name that has become synonymous with champagne, is releasing three special vintages this holiday season: Dom Pérignon Vintage 2000 ($150), with toasty, mineral notes; Oenothèque Vintage 1995 ($400), which "is killer with caviar," according to Dom's Chef de Cave, Richard Geoffroy; and Rosé Vintage 1998 ($450), which, with notes of salt and fruit, is rare and sold in limited quantities and goes well with everything...
After the French Revolution, Dom Pérignon's legacy was kept hushed until the 20th century, when it re-emerged as a sensation. In 1936, Doris Duke purchased 100 bottles of the first vintage sold in the U.S.; 68 years later, a case of that vintage sold at auction for nearly $25,000. Grace Kelly requested that it be served at her wedding to Prince Rainier, Elizabeth Taylor celebrated her 1961 Oscar win over a bottle of it, and Aristotle Onassis was known to keep a chilled bottle at the ready at Maxim's restaurant in Paris. Marilyn Monroe...
...Dom Pérignon was Marilyn Monroe's favorite Champagne 2 A statue of Dom Pierre Pérignon 3 A bottle of Dom Pérignon 1993 Oenothèque 4 The Benedictine Abbey of Hautvilliers, outside the town of Epernay, France. Pierre Pérignon became the cellar master there in 1668, at age 30, and held the post until his death in 1715 5 Sean Connery, as James Bond, reaches for a bottle of Dom Pérignon in the 1964 film Goldfinger 6 Drew Barrymore, with Cameron Diaz, holds up a bottle of Dom Pérignon en route to the premiere...