‘I did everything first. But people forget, because people forget everything’: Carine Roitfeld wears jacket and skirt by Tom Ford; Clash T-shirt her own; necklace by Dior. Makeup by Hugo Villard at Saint Germain Agency using Chanel; hair by Olivier Schawalder at Bryant Artists using Oribe. Photograph: Patrick Swirc/The Observer‘I did everything first. But people forget, because people forget everything’: Carine Roitfeld wears jacket and skirt by Tom Ford; Clash T-shirt her own; necklace by Dior.
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Here’s a modern love story for you: a friend of mine recently asked if I would be willing to donate my eggs. He and his wife, both professors at Harvard, wanted to have a child.
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It seemed for a moment that the industry was willing to turn its back on the Golden Globes and the long-cursed Hollywood Foreign Press Association that decides upon them. The group had been a joke for years but it took some damaging exposés in 2021 to turn the fun-poking into some finger-pointing, accusations of “ethical lapses” and some serious diversity issues leading the awards into disarray.
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Liz Smith, who has died aged 95, was unknown until middle-age, but became a well-known and much-loved character actor. Her breakthrough came in a Mike Leigh film, Bleak Moments, when she was 49. She reached a wider audience when she starred in the memorable 1970s television comedy I Didn’t Know You Cared, written by Peter Tinniswood.
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