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Author Somerset Maugham, who once said that the public respects an old writer for his age and not necessarily for his work went to the Riviera villa of his friend the Aga Khan to celebrate his 79th birthday. For the occasion, he had a further observation: "The public gets used to a writer . . . Longevity also allows a writer, if he's old enough, to influence three generations of readers. But it isn't having written a lot that makes one respected. What makes a writer and what makes him a success is, in my opinion, solely his personality...
Listeners are asked regularly to tell Moore what they don't like about the show (mostly, they don't like guest stars getting in Moore's way). Moore is proud of his fans' loyalty: on the offer of a $1 Riviera-brand blouse, his show got a total of 50,000 orders, while another show with twice his rating was able to sell only 15,000. Early last year, before Moore had caught on with advertisers, CBS wanted him to turn his program into a less expensive contest show. Garry fought the network and won, with...
London's critics hurried to the show, paid their respects to the master. Said the Times: "Very obviously the work of an exploring, ruthlessly experimental, and intensely serious mind." Matisse himself was on the French Riviera, propped up in bed and drawing a little. The show was his own idea. He had even designed a catalogue cover and an exhibition poster to go with...
...from his villa on The Riviera for a visit to Paris, the Ago Khan said that he was still hard at work on his forthcoming memoirs, "which will sweep away all these legends about me." Some of the sweepings: "The richest man in the world is the Nizam of Hyderabad, not me. He is also the most avid miser. He has a swimming pool full of diamonds . . . The story that I bottle my bathtub water and sell it to the faithful is utter rubbish . . . Horses are a passion with me. I have just had the best racing season...
...used to wear low-heeled shoes so I wouldn't be taller than the men." All that changed when Beverly took up painting and went to live in Paris. She studied with Painters André Lhote and Fernand Léger in Paris, then moved down to the Riviera, where she rented Pablo Picasso's former apartment and tried doing modish abstractions. A few months later, she was traveling in North Africa, and there, in the squalid, poverty-stricken towns, she discovered what she wanted to do. "I began to see people in a way I had never...