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A friend (one a little politically squishy, I'd say) lamented/announced to me this morning that Palin had really messed up in her interview with Katie Couric and blahblahblah. Yes blahblahblah, even when National Review writers like Kathleen Parker (a bit squishy, though certainly more politically conversant than my friend) are urging McCain to pull Palin off the field. ("Palin Problem" by Kathleen...
Britain's Queen Victoria's stocking have sold at auction for a staggering $16,000. The black and white silk stockings, which bear the royal crest, fetched 40 times their list price when they were bought by David Alcock. Alcock, a bidder from North Wales, bought the legwear for Nottingham's Ruddington Framework Knitters' Museum - in honor of his late father-in-law Jack Smirfitt, who was a curator at...
London, Sep 4 (DPA) A pair of Queen Victoria’s hand-stitched silk stockings - embellished with the royal crest - were sold for 8,000 pounds ($14,300) at auction in Britain.The black and white stockings, with a two-tone silk finish, were believed to have been worn by Queen Victoria in the 1870s, Charles Hanson of Hanson’s Auctioneers [...]
I opened the lid to the beautiful bridal package to find a very elegant pair of white shiny silk stockings and a white lacy garter belt attached to a pink/white corset covered with lace. I had never touched anything like...
This Old House, the pioneering PBS series on home restoration has saluted Tulsa's Brady Heights neighborhood as one of the best places in the country to buy an old house: Brady Heights existed before Oklahoma was a state. The area, originally known as the Silk Stocking neighborhood, saw hard times...
TCM To Pay Tribute To Cyd Charisse The June 27 prime time tribute is to include her classic films "Singin' in the Rain," "The Band Wagon" and "Silk Stockings."...
First you think of the legs — long, shapely and beckoning. You think of them in the film Singin’ in the Rain, thrusting out from her skimpy green dress towards a seriously impressed Gene Kelly. You think of them in Silk Stockings (the musical version of the Garbo comedy Ninotchka), as she memorably exchanges her black communist leggings for something silky and capitalist, with diaphanous underwear...
Cyd Charisse, 86, who brought sizzle and sophistication to dance in classic movie musicals such as "Singin' in the Rain" and "Silk Stockings," died Tuesday in Los Angeles after suffering an apparent heart attack on Monday.
I'm sorry- there just aren't any words today... Cyd Charisse has passed away. She was one of my absolute favorites. From my first time seeing her in Singin' in the Rain all through Brigadoon , Silk Stockings , and so much more- and then absolute perfection in The Band Wagon - I've had a mad crush on Cyd. She was not only so lovely, but so talented and a marvel to watch on screen. The world is a little...
Absolutely sublime dancing with Fred Astaire, above , in The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli 1953) and Silk Stockings (Rouben Mamoulian 1957). Equally well matched with Gene Kelly in Singin’ in the Rain (Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen 1952), Brigadoon (Minnelli 1954), and It’s Always Fair Weather (Kelly & Donen 1955). Two spectacular solo numbers in Party Girl (Nicholas Ray 1958). Striking even in a non-dancing...
Cyd Charisse, who brought sizzle and sophistication to dance in such classic movie musicals as "Singin' in the Rain" and "Silk Stockings." She was 86. Cyd Charisse, dancer starred in movie musicals with Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire Trained as a ballerina in the Russian tradition, she listed 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'Silk Stockings' among her many credits...
