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Dwarfs & Giants. At a reception for 600 given by Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, at posh La Redoute, Mikoyan at first sipped listlessly at his champagne, having previously confessed that he was not much of a drinker ("Whisky I don't take at all because of the smell. I drank it once in America"). Then as ebullient Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss charged into the room, Mikoyan's sour mien brightened. He opened the conversation bluntly. "You are a nice man, but we don't particularly like your speeches. Why are you arming with nuclear weapons...
...ladies if he were not such a dandy among the consumer goods, a slave to "crude snob-cravings." The monocle glitters over the private-eyeful afforded by Agent Bond. He smokes Macedonian cigarettes marked with three gold rings. He drinks Dom Perignon champagne, drives a Bentley. At Blades, a posh St. James's Street club that he frequents, "no newspaper comes to the reading room before it has been ironed." He-Man Bond's bath water is scented with Floris Lime bath essence, while his babes splash self-indulgently amid Guerlain bath cubes. To Critic Bergonzi, these cushy...
...Paris the young adventurer hires on as a lift boy in a posh hotel. And who turns up? The lady of the jewel case, of course. It develops that her husband owns "the biggest pâté factory in Strasbourg," and the wife lives high on the goose. More luck, and Felix manipulates it skillfully. The lady tears the uniform off him one evening, flings him into bed. Later she forces him to steal the rest of her jewels while she cries: "Oh, how delightfully you debase...
Fury's success is due less to the horse sense it propounds than the exciting horseflesh it displays. No ordinary nag, Fury (real name: Beauty) is one of the best-trained, best-paid horses in Hollywood, where his competition is keen. He lives quietly on a posh ranch in Van Nuys, Calif., works only four months a year and has brought Owner Ralph McCutcheon about $500,000 in eight years. His Fury fee: $1,500 a show. A saddlebred, eleven-year-old stallion standing 15 lands high, Fury has borne some of Hollywood's most famous bodies...
Dance with Mum. Tommy starred in a film (The Tommy Steele Story), followed such stars as Marlene Dietrich and Noel Coward into London's swank Café de Paris, and told his fans how the posh life felt: "I'm the proudest kid in the world-I've danced with my mum in the Café de Paris...