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Salma Hayek announces her engagement to (and impregnation by) wealthy French fashion magnate François-Henri Pinault. She even puts his name first on the press release. Celebrity blog WWTDD.COM muses, "What a lucky break that [her] soul mate would be a billionaire. Love is funny, I guess. Even with all our advanced technology, we still can't predict the heart." score...
...also a decidedly un-Gallic lawyer from the central Indian city of Bhopal. Nevertheless, according to the book Le Rajah de Bourbon, published last week by European blueblood Prince Michael of Greece (a Bourbon scion himself), Balthazar is a direct descendant of Jean de Bourbon, a swashbuckling nephew of Henri IV who joined the court of the Mughal Emperor Akbar in 1560. While Jean's progeny faded into obscurity in the East, Henri IV's ruled France for centuries until the guillotine ended the Bourbon line at Louis XVI in 1793. Now, Prince Michael claims Balthazar is Louis...
Lucien Clergue is one of only three photographers to receive the French Legion of Honor award. (Henri Cartier-Bresson and André Kertész complete the triad.) Given this distinction, it’s quite astounding that a nascent private gallery like the Pierre Menard Gallery, at 10 Arrow St., would hold an extensive collection of his work. Yet the gallery’s exhibition of 84 of Clergue’s prints, on display through March 15, is notable for reasons other than its mere existence. The massive assembly at once reinforces and threatens Clergue?...
...starting point" would be Al Fayed's testimony that Diana told him she was afraid for her life. In addition, Mansfield wants the inquest to look into the rumor that Diana was pregnant when she died, why her body was embalmed and questions surrounding the blood samples taken from Henri Paul, the chauffeur who also died in the Paris crash, which showed him over the legal drinking limit. Mansfield also noted that letters sent from Prince Philip to Diana and from Diana to her former butler Paul Burrell would be key pieces of evidence...
DIED. Heinz Berggruen, 93, German Jewish art collector turned unofficial diplomat; outside Paris. The Berlin-born Berggruen, who specialized in the works of 20th century artists, such as Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and his good friend Pablo Picasso, fled Nazi Germany for the U.S. and later established an esteemed gallery in postwar Paris. In the mid-1990s he famously moved his formidable collection to Berlin. Hailed for the conciliatory gesture by a once exiled Jew, he helped reinvigorate Germany's collection of modern art, earlier dismissed as degenerate by Hitler...