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...DIED. SIR HARDY AMIES, 93, Savile Row designer who clothed Queen Elizabeth for four decades; in Langford, England. London's most successful couturier (with model Faraday, above), he was a self-described snob who disdained strapless gowns and resisted critics who would have the Queen look more chic, insisting her understated style suited her. "I'm for elitism and its survival," he said...
...DIED. SIR HARDY AMIES, 93, dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth II and doyen of British couture; in the Cotswalds, United Kingdom. His first royal commission came in 1951, when the then Princess Elizabeth asked him to design her clothes for an official trip to Canada. He continued to design for the Queen until he retired from day-to-day involvement in his fashion house?established in 1945 at 14 Savile Row?when he turned 80. Amies' style was always elegant?and conservative. He never designed a strapless evening dress because, he said, "Anything blatantly sexy can never be chic; overexposure...
...SIR IAN MCKELLEN is sitting backstage at London's Lyric Theatre, a prestigious venue that overlooks the Windmill strip club in sex-driven Soho. Far from being perturbed by the district, or even the cockroach trap on his dressing-room floor, the star of The Lord of the Rings and The X-Men - two of Hollywood's biggest franchises - is gleeful about returning to the West End after 13 years to perform in Strindberg's The Dance of Death, which opens March 4. "I'm so excited about working in this street," he says. "The strip club is next door...
...impression that if anyone insults the governor’s honor, I’m supposed to challenge that person to a duel. Every now and then people do challenge the governor, and I hold them to it. I point my finger at them and say, ‘Sir, how dare you insult the governor of Kentucky! I shall defend him to the death...
Baker: We’re not on Earth, anymore, Sir. Plus, I’m quite old and my memory is fading...