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...assurance he says he has honed over the 40-odd years he has been dealing with diamonds, buying and selling some of the most expensive and famous stones in the world, including the 100.57-carat Star of America, an octagonal certified D-flawless; La Favorite, a historic 50.15-carat D-color, and the Idol's Eye, a 70.20-carat Golconda diamond with an extremely rare blue tint...
...late 1980s and '90s: Isabella Rossellini posing as an actress in the style of the neorealistic cinema that her father founded; Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington dressed as showgirls falling in love with Italian boys in New York City's Little Italy; Monica Bellucci re-enacting Fellini's La Dolce Vita. The designers' ad campaigns alone?most shot by Steven Meisel?are a lesson in vintage Italian style...
...same American soprano who got booed at Milan's La Scala a few years ago went to Paris recently to receive the Légion d'Honneur. After recording three new albums - the jazz-inspired Haunted Heart, the Strauss opera Daphne and a collection of sacred songs - Renée Fleming, 46, spoke with Time's Terry McCarthy about practicing in front of the mirror and learning to sing in Elvish. You have a Christmas album? Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc. Only now it's called a sacred collection. My father was a choral master...
...Sept. 19, 2005, I provided The Family Center for Missing Persons my DNA in Baton Rouge, La., on my way to my mother's house. I had not heard from her since the storm. I picked up my son, who accompanied me to Eastern New Orleans. We arrived at [my mother's] house at about noon, and discovered that the search and rescue team had already searched the house because of the markings on the house that indicated no one was inside. However, my 79-year-old mother's car was in the driveway. I noticed that there...
...mother on the floor; it was apparent that she was deceased. I told my son to call his Fire Chief at Headquarters Company and the N.O. Fire Chaplain. They arrived, and we said a prayer. On our way back to my son's house in Algiers, La., he informed me that his picture is in TIME Magazine's Sept. 19 edition. He is sitting on a tree on St. Charles Ave. in New Orleans. All of these events happened on Sept. 19, 2005. As of today, Nov. 27, my family and I are awaiting the release of my mother...