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  Loel Guinness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Group Capt. Thomas Loel Evelyn Bulkeley Guinness OBE (9 June 1906 – 31 December 1988), a Member of Parliament, was most well-known for his first marriage to the Honourable Joan Yarde-Buller, a daughter of the third Lord Churston, who left him for Prince Aly Khan, the playboy eldest son of the Aga Khan III.
Raised in the United States and England, Loel Guinness was a son of Benjamin Solomon Guinness, a lawyer, from whom he inherited a fortune.
He was allegedly an heir to the Guinness brewing fortune, although his exact descent from the founder Sir Arthur Guinness (or from his grandson Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness) is not clear.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Loel_Guinness   (350 words)

  
 Liceo Cubano - Gloria Estefan Biography
Gloria took care of her father after he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
Gloria was admitted to the University of Miami (on partial scholarship) in 1975, with hopes of pursuing a career in psychology.
Emilio Estefan, Gloria's husband of 22 years, was the group's leader and keyboardist and helped the once shy Estefan come out of her shell and become the charismatic, energetic performer she is today.
www.liceocubano.com /Spn/Estefan/Estefan_Bio.asp   (789 words)

  
 Healing Moves: Carol Krucoff RYT: Fiction: Hailey's Comets
Gloria was 24 and Harold 44 when they'd wed, and she'd been thrilled to finally do something that pleased her father, the Nobel Laureate Elliot Rotarian.
Gloria's stomach did a little flip and she made her way to the window, pushed it open and took a deep gulp of fresh, chilly air.
Gloria shut the window and, with a last, loving glance at her Comets, eased out of the dressing room, her heels clacking softly on the parquet floor.
www.healingmoves.com /carol/articles/haileyscomets.html   (2403 words)

  
 Coutelas
Gloria Rubio y Alatorre, better known as Gloria Guinness (August 27, 1912 - November 9th, 1980) was an elegant, earthy socialite and writer of the mid 20th century.
Her third husband, whom she married in 1951, was Group Capt. Thomas Loel Guinness, a Member of Parliament (died 1989) and an heir to the Guinness beer fortune.
Gloria Guinness died in 1980 in Lausanne Switzerland.
www.freemanart.ca /Coutelas.htm   (358 words)

  
 Isle of Wight Today
GUINNESS IS hoping to turn around a trend of flagging sales of its world-famous stout by banking on the Oscar-winning talents of Island-born movie director Anthony Minghella.
The final scene shows the man riding across an alternating light and dark landscape that replicates the trademark fl and tan cascading effect Guinness has when it is poured into a glass.
According to Guinness drinker Gloria Minghella, her son will occasionally enjoy a pint of the fl stuff.
www.iwcp.co.uk /ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1252&ArticleID=852125   (435 words)

  
 Selena - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Behar later said that the reason he signed Selena was because he thought he discovered the next Gloria Estéfan.
Among the celebrities who were reported to have immediately phoned the Quintanilla family to express their condolences were Gloria Estefan, Julio Iglesias and Madonna.
Held a week after the 10th anniversary of her death, more than 50,000 fans attended the concert, which featured various high-profile artists including Gloria Estefan, Pepe Aguilar, Thalía, Paulina Rubio, Ana Barbara, Alejandra Guzmán, Ana Gabriel, and Fey.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Selena_Quintanilla   (2445 words)

  
 Rolling Stone : GUINNESS FLEADH
For thousands of enthusiastic music fans steeped in beer, heat and dust, the primary balm at the Guinness Fleadh festival was the music itself.
Guinness drinker," ventured Suzanne Vega at the start of a well-received performance on Sunday afternoon.
Though the main attraction was the rich and varied musical lineup, plenty of Irish people and Irish culture aficionados braved the heat to quell homesickness, join in downing loamy pints of Guinness and cheer on such Irish stars as Christy Moore, Van Morrison and Sinead O'Connor.
www.rollingstone.com /news/story/5928192/guinness_fleadh   (981 words)

  
 A Tribute to Gloria Swanson
Today she is remembered, if at all, primarily for a legendary film she made thirty years after her heyday, in which she played a fading silent film star much like herself.
Gloria Swanson was born in Chicago on March 27, 1899, as Gloria May Josephine Svensson.
The film is now considered one of the best of all time, but it didn't return Gloria to her previous box office standing.
www.classicmovies.org /articles/aa032402a.htm   (670 words)

  
 enokiworld : yves saint laurent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Icons like CZ Guest, Gloria Guinness, Babe Paley and Slim Keith are to be studied for brilliant ideas and attitudes about clothing.
Iconic Yves Saint Laurent and oh so very Gloria Guinness lounging on the top deck white leather banquette in skinny pants and peasant blouse.
Black cotton poplin with a curved yoke and smocking, the wide sleeves are elasticated at the wrist to emphasize the silhouette.
www.enokiworld.com /goods/yslblkpeasant.htm   (235 words)

  
 JS Online:Guinness books may remain in schools
Its vote will keep Guinness World Records books in libraries at the 17 elementary schools, unless it is overturned on appeal by the School Board.
In her complaint to the district about Guinness' books, Culver said they should be removed because they contained photographs of scantily clad women for "sexual entertainment." She said boys in her school were making special trips to the library solely to look at the "girls in Guinness."
Reading specialist Gloria Esser said Guinness' short passages might be something she could use to get "reluctant readers," who are discouraged by long encyclopedia entries, to start reading.
www.jsonline.com /news/wauk/mar02/29216.asp   (687 words)

  
 Fundación Balenciaga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Female clients were staunch supporters of the master, and included, apart from Bunny Mellon, American multimillionaires like Mrs.
Lopez Wilshaw, Gloria Guinness, Babe Paley or Claudia de Osborne.
She was such a close friend of Jacqueline Kennedy that Bunny Mellon was at the top of the list in her will, and she left her two Indian miniatures as a bequest.
www.fundacionbalenciaga.com /ingles/actividades.html   (352 words)

  
 Gloria Perfume by Cacharel
Spicy, woody or warm amber-based fragrances are traditionally favorites for evening and special occasions.
Launched in 2002, Gloria is a creation by Cacharel with a heart of oriental freshness.
An exotic blend of vanilla, musk, amaretto, bittersweet Italian almond liquor and ambergris added to a floral heart of Bulgarian rose and hibiscus.
www.perfumeemporium.com /Womens/Details.cfm?ID=7535&source=9   (64 words)

  
 Adventures in Troubleshooting
Guinness was found in Northwest DC, all alone and shivering, fending off two dogs on the morning of May 17th, 2004.
Rest in Peace, Guinness, and may God be between you and I while we are apart from one another.
Tom Bridge is an itinerant technologist, media specialist and writer in Northern Virginia.
www.tombridge.com   (341 words)

  
 The Observer | Magazine | Gaby Wood visits the most famous Latin American designer Oscar de la Renta
During our office-bound lunch, he embarks on a story about the late socialite Gloria Guinness and her spectacularly convoluted family tree.
The point of the anecdote is that Gloria Guinness, who was one of the best-dressed women of the Fifties, wore the clothes of two designers: Cristobal Balenciaga and Antonio Castillo.
De la Renta offers up a trademark feline smile as he tells it: 'Perhaps a year or two before Gloria died, I asked her what she'd done with all her clothes.
observer.guardian.co.uk /magazine/story/0,11913,1581025,00.html   (2468 words)

  
 Guinness Fleadh 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
In it's third year, The Guinness Fleadh, brought all it's talented acts to the Chicago Motor Speedway yesterday.
The ever mysterious and personal Van Morrison played such classics as "Gloria," "Moondance" and "Caravan" in such a private and beautiful way that any aspiring philosophers in the audience were surely inspired.
Closing the main stage was the overrated and forgettable Hootie and the Blowfish.
www.concertlivewire.com /fleadh.htm   (327 words)

  
 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 97061200
Christian Dior called Cristobal Balenciaga "the master of us all." The priest-like Balenciaga, whose private life remained a total mystery until the day he died, created day dresses of deceiving simplicity and evening gowns of staggering extravagance, and for them he was paid the highest prices in the couture world.
His faithful clients were the great fashion plates of the postwar years: the Duchess of Windsor, Gloria Guinness, Pauline de Rothschild, and Mona Bismarck, among others.
Cristobal Balenciaga was born in 1895 in Getaria, in Spain's Basque country, and at the early age of twenty-four he created his own couture house in San Sebastian.
www.loc.gov /catdir/description/hol055/97061200.html   (204 words)

  
 Finely drawn in Black, White - Entertainment - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Frank Sinatra and his waif bride, Mia Farrow, were in attendance, as was the reigning peacock, Mr.
Capote, with guest of honor Katharine Graham and all his "swans" -- devoted socialites Babe Paley, Marella Agnelli, Gloria Vanderbilt, Gloria Guinness, C.Z. Guest, Lee Radziwill and Slim Keith.
For the great unwashed, the masked ball -- the guests' entrances to which were shown nationwide on television -- represented the last vestige of old-school glamour, a throwback to a more elegant and decorous era.
washingtontimes.com /entertainment/20060413-095433-2806r.htm   (888 words)

  
 A Tribute to Alec Guinness
Show a group of people under thirty a photograph of Alec Guinness and the majority of them would say, "Obi-Wan Kenobi." What's interesting about this is that the one role he's most famous for today is one in which he essentially played himself, speaking in his own voice and without character makeup.
But to the classic movie fan, the real Sir Alec Guinness is the one who played eight different parts in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) or who created the definitive Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948).
He's an actor's actor, one who could always be counted upon to become the character he played, at least as far as the audience is concerned.
www.classicmovies.org /articles/aa081698.htm   (589 words)

  
 USA WEEKEND Magazine
Her mother and stepfather, Janet and Hugh Auchincloss, lived in a world in which socially prominent women paid a great deal of attention to dress.
Some of these women, such as Babe Paley and Gloria Guinness, had great personal style, and even as a college student, Jacqueline exhibited a similar fashion sensibility.
She had "a perfect horror of overdressing," her mother's dressmaker recalled.
www.usaweekend.com /01_issues/010506/010506jackie.html   (837 words)

  
 Social Diary 3/11/04 - 2004 International Best Dressed List, Garde Robe and Kim Akhtar, J. Mendel and Safe Horizon
By the time I was participating, Eleanor who thought Gloria Guinness was the most elegant woman she ever knew, was well into her nineties, and Courtney Love had made the List.
Nevertheless, when it came to New Ideas, Eleanor swung with the times – with caution but never a hint of trepidation, and with a deftness lacking in many of us thirty, even forty or more years younger.
I was always struck by the contrast of the image of The Best Dressed that I grew up with (conjured up for me, although unbeknownst to me, by Eleanor Lambert, and the actual process of putting it together).
www.newyorksocialdiary.com /socialdiary/2004/03_11_04/socialdiary03_11_04.php   (1753 words)

  
 NPR : World's Largest Disco Draws Dancers
Morning Edition, November 28, 2005 · The World's Largest Disco drew 7,000 partyers to the convention center in Buffalo Saturday night.
Back in 1979, the original event, featuring disco queen Gloria Gaynor, broke the Guinness Record when 13,000 discoed the night away.
The now-annual event can claim celebrity appearances from every single cast member of the Brady Bunch -- plus many middle aged discoers looking to dance off middle-aged spread two days after Thanksgiving.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5029129&ft=1&f=3   (145 words)

  
 cbs2chicago.com - Second Captoe Movie Expected For Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Gwyneth Paltrow plays singer Peggy Lee and Sigourney Weaver is close Capote pal Babe Paley, the wife of CBS founder William Paley.
Isabella Rossellini will channel international socialite Gloria Guinness and Hope Davis tackles the role of famous photographer Slim Keith.
From this lineup one can see that McGrath's upcoming film (based on the late George Plimpton's biography) will be very different than the first ''Capote'' flick - focusing more on the author's high-profile social whirl life, and not just his writing of In Cold Blood.
cbs2chicago.com /zwecker/local_blogentry_052205103.html   (444 words)

  
 Classic Movies - Bookstore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
A handy listing of all the Oscar nominees and winners over the years, plus great information about the selection process (it's probably not what you think) and how you can win your local newspaper's Oscar derby or your office's Oscar pool next time around.
Reading this book does nothing to convince me that Sir Alec Guinness wasn't one of our greatest actors, and certainly, as the title implies, at his best when doing character work.
Alec Guinness' private journals kept from 1995 to 1996 reveal his private side, which is not often seen in a great character actor like Sir Alec.
www.classicmovies.org /bookstore.htm   (1739 words)

  
 Vanity Fair: PRINTABLES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
(Her date—and future husband—Oscar de la Renta, wore a matching fl cat face.) Gloria Guinness, who had commissioned a white gown and mask from Castillo, sought de Langlade's opinion about whether to drape her famously long neck with an extraordinary diamond necklace or an equally ravishing ruby choker.
The editor replied with the only possible answer: "She advised Gloria to wear both," recalls Oscar de la Renta.
The trade paper bestowed on style queens Gloria Guinness and Marella Agnelli the top accolade of four and a half stars, Diana Vreeland earned a miserly single star, and Norman Mailer was consigned to fashion hell with a score of minus five.
www.vanityfair.com /commentary/content/printables/051003roco04a?print=true   (6720 words)

  
 Books | They're gonna party like it's 1966
Infuriating, because Davis makes little attempt to establish a critical distance from her subject matter.
It's not difficult to see why Capote felt such a need to surround himself with the women he rather tiresomely called his swans, and who were invariably leggy, rich and privileged: Babe Paley, Gloria Guinness, CZ Guest, Marella Agnelli, Slim Keith, Lee Radziwill.
These elegant, idle creatures were what his mother had aspired to be.
books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,329448314-99942,00.html   (535 words)

  
 Guinness World Records - Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The best selling drum 'n' bass album is New Forms by Reprazent, which has sold a total of 763,910 albums around the world.
Cuban-born singer Gloria Estefan is the most successful female Latin artist in the world.
Her current total world sales stand at more than...
www.guinnessworldrecords.com /index/records.asp?id=38&pg=1   (1451 words)

  
 Valentino - the Legend of Feminine Style   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
At the end of the 60s, Valentino took a partner, architect student Giancarlo Giannetti, who abandoned his studies to work with the famous designer and bring the house worldwide expansion and success.
His famous clients include Joan Collins, Princess Grace of Monaco, Princess Diana, Gloria Guinness, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, and Sophia Loren.
Jacqueline Kennedy wore Valentino dress when she married Aristotle Onassis.
www.fashiongates.com /magazine/Valentino-12-05-2005-63041.html   (528 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Comedians (1967): Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
She was so carefully made up and coiffed that one was always aware that it was a star turn for Taylor.
What would have been interesting, and might have made an effective movie although it would never have happened, would have been to cast Guinness in Burton's role and Burton in Guinness' role.
But no matter how serious the message, a movie's first responsibility is to be well made and effective.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6302747171   (280 words)

  
 The Isabella Rossellini Picture Pages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Her earlier significant accomplishments have included an Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists award that the actress won for her brilliant starring turn as Eugenia in the Taviani brothers’ The Meadow (1980).
Recently playing supporting role Gloria Guinness, opposite Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig and Gwyneth Paltrow, in Douglas McGrath’s Infamous (2006), Rossellini will soon star with Anthony LaPaglia and Viola Davis in writer/director Matt Tauber’s All Fall Down (2006).
In 2005, she joined the cast of the television series ”Alias” in the recurring role of Sydney’s aunt Yekaterina ‘Katya’ Derevko, and had a leading role in The Feast of the Goat.
www.superiorpics.com /isabella_rossellini   (1347 words)

  
 Guinness World Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Guinness World Records is the global authority on record-breaking achievement - no other enterprise collects, confirms, accredits and presents world record data with the same investment in comprehensiveness and authenticity.
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www.guinnessworldrecords.com /index.asp?id=54237   (160 words)

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