Good Old Hollywood

Trends of Today and Yesterday: Hot Headbands

Autumn87 — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:22:35 -0700

Headbands are popular once again, which I'm sure you've noticed. I just love how cute headbands are, and how they can spruce up your hair even when you aren't having your best hair day.

THEN:

Audrey Hepburn, pulling her hair back for dance practice.

Brigitte Bardot, rocking the hairband and big hair combo.

Elizabeth Taylor, with a casual look.

NOW:

Mischa Barton

Reese Witherspoon

Fergie, with a demure bow.

Which Audrey Hepburn Character Are You?

Autumn87 — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:57:01 -0700

Take this fun, silly little quiz to find out!

Here's my result:

Which Audrey Hepburn Are You?

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"Audrey Hepburn: Still the Fairest Lady"

Autumn87 — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:53:42 -0800

Here's a wonderful article I found on "Time" magazine's website about Audrey! I took an excerpt, but if you wanna read the rest, it's here: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1580936,00.html

Oh, and it was written on January 20th, so that's why it says something about her dying 14 years ago today. Here's the article:

The movie world's first clear view of Audrey Hepburn was in a newsreel: the beginning of Roman Holiday showed the young actress, as the ruritanian Princess Ann, on a state tour of Europe. The world's final view of Hepburn was in 1992 TV newscasts of her visit to Africa last October - three months before her death at 63 - as she bestowed first her compassion on starving children and then her modulated anger at the causes of their condition.

In the 40 years between Hollywood's make-believe headlines and the horrifying reality of Somalia, Hepburn as actress and woman seemed an emissary from a finer world than ours. She taught, by example, what a lady was: a vessel of grace and gravity, ready wit, eldritch charm: a woman whose greatest discretion was to hide her awareness of her splendor. She refused to be tyrannized by her own beauty.

Today, these matters and manners may strike you as so very once-upon-a-time. Nobody "behaves" any more. In the post-Audrey age, when stars are in rehab before they're out of their teens, when British royals rut as strenuously as rock stars and a President gets impeached for accepting fellatio from an intern, deportment is a Victorian concept. Even in the 50s, a decade of such screen seraphs as Vivien Leigh, Claire Bloom, Grace Kelly and Jean Simmons (William Wyler's first choice for the role of Princess Ann), Hepburn was a glorious anachronism. She represented a moral and emotional aristocracy that no longer exists - if it ever did, outside of her pictures.

Hepburn, born on May 4, 1929, died 14 years ago today, and her ostensibly anachronistic glamour might have died with her. Yet it's that regality, along with her relentless generosity of spirit, that keeps her alive, burnishes her glow. Consider these recent reminders:

- Last year's Gap commercials, which had Audrey in her skinny black pants from "Funny Face" dancing to AC/DC's "Back In Black." (Proceeds to the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund.)

- Christie's December auction of the Givenchy "little black dress" that Hepburn wore as Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany's". It sold for more than $900,000, the highest price ever for a movie costume. (Proceeds to the City of Joy charity for poor children in India. "There are tears in my eyes," said Dominic Lapierre, founder of the charity. "I am absolutely dumbfounded to believe that a piece of cloth which belonged to such a magical actress will now enable me to buy bricks and cement to put the most destitute children in the world into schools.")

- Katie Couric's Holly Golightly party at Tiffany's. This past Sunday, the CBS news anchor donned a Holly-style frock and long black gloves and threw herself a 50th birthday party at Tiffany's Fifth Avenue flagship store. (Proceeds to the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance.)

- "The Audrey Hepburn Treasures", a new biography and "scrapbook" of family mementos. (Proceeds to the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund.)

All these are testimony to Hepburn's twin legacies: her eternal, effortless chic in movies and her later, to her more important, career as an ambassador and consciousness-raiser for UNICEF. She often spoke of her lifelong craving for affection and her need to give it. She knew both privilege and want, as a baroness' daughter who nearly starved in the Netherlands during the German occupation in World War II. You can see why Hepburn essentially retired from movies at 38 to care for her two sons, and why the starving children of Africa and Asia were kin to her. The photos of Audrey with the Somalian children show a woman nearly as thin as they. It's anorexia as empathy - as if she didn't want to embarrass the starving children she met by looking too well-fed.

She was one of a kind, inimitable and irreplaceable, as is proved by the actresses who tried to replace her. A TV remake of "Roman Holiday" starred Catherine Oxenberg, a Yugoslav princess, and lineal descendant of Catherine the Great of Russia. Julia Ormond had Audrey's role in a "Sabrina" remake; Thandie Newton took her part in "The Trouble With Charlie", a very distant approximation of "Charade". And Jessica Love Hewitt starred seven years ago in "The Audrey Hepburn Story". All were put in the shade by Audrey's ghost. Who'd dare? Why bother?

Yes, I noticed that the article says JESSICA Love Hewitt instead of JENNIFER, but that was a mistake on Time's part, lol.

Must See Classic Film #7- DVD: Sabrina, $9.99

Autumn87 — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 18:12:55 -0800

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Must See Classic Film #7!

Autumn87 — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:52:42 -0800

I'm focusing on a marvelous film starring my favorite actress, Audrey Hepburn! This is definitely a romantic little film, full of hope for the hopeless romantic in you. I LOVE this movie, and not just because I love Audrey, but because it's too adorable! The characters are all wonderfully portrayed and the storylines keep me glued to the seat. This film also features Humphrey Bogart and William Holden as the brothers who are vying for Sabrina's affections.

Plot summary from www.imdb.com :

Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work --busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play -- technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who has been infatuated with David all her life, but David hardly notices her -- "doesn't even know I exist" -- until she goes away to Paris for two years, and returns an elegant, sophisticated, beautiful woman. Suddenly, she finds that she has captured David's attention, but just as she does so, she finds herself falling in love with Linus, and she finds that Linus is also falling in love with her.

Best old Hollywood style icon?

Autumn87 — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:35:50 -0800

Which fashionista from Hollywood's golden days do you think had the best style?

Audrey Hepburn, an Elegant Spirit by Sean Hepburn Ferrer, $15.07

Autumn87 — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:55:15 -0800

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In this first insider portrait of Audrey Hepburn, her son offers an intimate glimpse into the life of Hollywood's most celebrated actress. With marvelous photographs, drawings, and anecdotes, Sean Hepburn Ferrer delivers the most intimate look ever at elegant Audrey.

$15.07

Amazon.com: Breakfast at Tiffany's (Anniversary Edition): DVD

Autumn87 — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:38:20 -0800

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Barnes?&?Noble.com - Books: The Audrey Hepburn Treasures, by Ellen Erwin, Hardcover

Autumn87 — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:46:39 -0800

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The Audrey Hepburn Treasures: Pictures and Mementos from a Life of Style and Purpose
by Ellen Erwin, Jessica Z. Diamond, Jessica Z. Diamond, Sean Hepburn Ferrer, Sean Hepburn Ferrer (Foreword by)
$34.96

Words of Wisdom

Autumn87 — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:08:14 -0700

By Sam Levenson, often quoted by Audrey Hepburn:

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode, but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives and the passion that she shows.

The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.