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...Preternaturally restless, Betty left home at 15 and came to Manhattan, hoping to be noticed by people who could get her into show business. By 17, she had hooked up with Vincent Lopez' decidedly demure band, to which she immediately brought verve and volume. One night when impresario Billy Rose was in the audience, did her madcap routine, picking up the elfin Lopez and carrying him about. That stunt earned her roles in the Broadway musicals Two for the Show and Panama Hattie, where, she later said, her one number was filched by star Ethel Merman on opening night. Betty...
...Mexican capital's Assembly is controlled by the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), whose candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, barely lost last year's presidential election to conservative President Felipe Calderon. But the measure's proponents are betting that if it passes in Mexico City, similar initiatives will gather momentum in other states - just as a law allowing gay civil unions did earlier this year. The abortion measure may have even broader backing, according to the Mexico City-based pro-choice group Catholics For the Right to Decide, whose surveys in Mexico, where at least 90% of the population...
...LOPEZ DE HEREDIA "We have always been sensitive to beauty," says Maria José López de Heredia, a fourth-generation winemaker, who commissioned British architect Zaha Hadid to design a wine-tasting shop for the winery's HQ in Haro. The result: a mirrored white bottlelike building incorporating a carved bar that Heredia's great-grandfather took to the 1910 Universal Exhibition in Brussels. Says López de Heredia, "My great-grandfather designed a bodega 129 years ago, and half of it is to be built still. Our dream is to finish it." www.lopezdeheredia.com
...team are hoping fashion will embrace tanzanite too, but in a lasting way. "When Ben Affleck gave Jennifer Lopez a pink-diamond ring, pink-diamond sales?and even pink-sapphire sales?shot up. It was phenomenal," notes Adrian Banks, managing director of TanzaniteOne Trading. "Then it was over. It was a fashion thing. Tanzanite is not a fashion stone; tanzanite is better than that...
This property comes courtesy of Firmdale Hotels, the boutique chain that was founded in 1985 by husband-and-wife team Tim and Kit Kemp (other London properties in the group include the Soho Hotel and the Charlotte Street, favorites of celebs like Giorgio Armani, Glenn Close and Jennifer Lopez). The Haymarket, which was designed in the 19th century by architect John Nash, will have 55 rooms and suites, all individually decorated by Kit Kemp in a fresh, modern yet traditional English style. The lobby will feature artwork by Tony Cragg and John Virtue. The Brumus Bar and Restaurant will serve...