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In the News (Thu 17 Dec 09)

  
  My Way - Page Six
Hepburn's two sons charge that an exhibition in Tolochenaz, Switzerland, is cheapening and exploiting her good name.
Her eldest son, Sean Ferrer, said that instead of celebrating the beloved actress - who died in 1993 - the museum is a tacky shrine comparable to Graceland, the former home of Elvis Presley.
Tolochenaz was Hepburn's home for the last 30 years of her life.
entertainment.myway.com /celebgossip/pgsixceleb/id/11_04_2002_3.html   (233 words)

  
 Articles - Homage to Hepburn by Gail Mangold-Vine
Audrey Hepburn was one of the most distinguished residents of Tolochenaz, the small village in Vaud whose authorities and inhabitants joined forces with the Audrey Hepburn Foundation to render homage to her life's work.
Presently on view in the Tolochenaz museum's two exhibition rooms are memorabilia from the actress's stage and film career (including her 2 Oscars) and 5 years as UNICEF good will ambassador.
Many of Tolochenaz' 60 volunteers, the eldest of whom is in her early 80s, knew Hepburn as neighbours.
www.audrey1.com /articles/articles23.html   (1055 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | Angry sons want to shut Hepburn museum
The family of Audrey Hepburn, the Hollywood star famed for her beauty and elegance, has demanded the closure of a museum in her home town which they say is cheapening her memory and attempting to cash in on her name.
The actress's two sons claim that an exhibition in Tolochenaz, Switzerland, which was intended to highlight their mother's international charity work and support good causes, has instead become a ghoulish shrine along the lines of Graceland, the former home of Elvis Presley.
Sean Ferrer, Hepburn's son by her marriage to the actor Mel Ferrer, and his half-brother, Luca Dotti, say that the town - which was their mother's home for the last 30 years of her life - has used the exhibition to boost its own tourist trade.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/11/03/whepb03.xml   (620 words)

  
 Audrey Hepburn - L'Ange des Enfants :: View topic - Hepburn's Sons Demand Back Star's Belongings from Museum
Nothing wrong to have a small museum celebrating her career and her work for the UN Children's Fund, but Tolochenaz is Audrey's resting place and people should respect her privacy.
Tolochenaz was the one place she trusted to keep her privacy and now her "neighbours" have used her name to get more tourists.
I wonder how that would go...are they going to pattern it to the Tolochenaz museum...well I guess this one is emphasized on her humanitarian efforts which should be though I would love to see some rare ones too.
www.audrey1.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=41   (2376 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : At Leisure   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Tolochenaz (Switzerland), Nov. 3: The family of Audrey Hepburn has demanded the closure of a museum in her hometown which they say is cheapening her memory and attempting to cash in on her name.
The actress’ two sons claim an exhibition here, which was intended to highlight Hepburn’s international charity work and support good causes, has instead become a ghoulish shrine along the lines of Graceland, the former home of Elvis Presley.
He said, however, that in its eagerness to attract visitors, the town, which is in the foothills of the Alps and overlooks Lake Geneva, had lost sight of the original inspiration for the exhibition.
www.telegraphindia.com /1021104/asp/atleisure/story_1351594.asp   (584 words)

  
 Pavilion
In 1996, the commune and inhabitants of Tolochenaz joined forces to create a memorial to Audrey, who lived among them for almost 30 of the 40 years she spent in Switzerland, until her death in January 1993.
On the initiative of the commune and in close collaboration with the Audrey Hepburn Foundation, it was decided to convert the former school pavilion into a museum commemorating Audrey's life, career and achievements.
The project fired the enthusiasm of the inhabitants of Tolochenaz and an amazing demonstration of goodwill and joyful collaboration has resulted in the establishment of an exhibition retracing Audrey's career.
audrey.hepburn.free.fr /galerie/pavillon/Pavilion.htm   (301 words)

  
 CBS News | Battle Over Audrey Hepburn's Memory | November 8, 2002 10:43:16
But the display in Tolochenaz, where the actress lived for 30 years, is preparing to close this month.
Hepburn's sons, Sean Ferrer and Luca Dotti, have demanded all their exhibits be returned, claiming Tolochenaz has commercialized the Hepburn name in a way that would have distressed their mother.
But Ferrer said villagers had tried to hype the Hepburn connection, including trying to change the name of a road to "Avenue Audrey Hepburn" and placing signs in the cemetery where she is buried pointing to the pavilion.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/11/08/entertainment/main528649.shtml   (758 words)

  
 Economic Development Board of the Western Lake Geneva Area (PEC)
This field benefits from contributions made by numerous research and training institutes situated in the Lausanne area, notably from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), the University of Lausanne, the Swiss Institute of Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC), and the Ludwig Institute.
In the Biomedical field, three global companies - Serono in Aubonne, employing a staff of 540, Medtronic in Tolochenaz employing 600 and Ferring in St-Prex, with a future staff of 250 - are located in the PEC region.
Except for its operations in the USA, the company's Global Operations are run from Tolochenaz, where Medtronic disposes of 17,000 m² of land for future expansion plans.
www.promocote.ch /tissueco_en.htm   (860 words)

  
 Worldroots.com
In the next years she continued her work with UNICEF until the end of 1992, when she was diagnosed with colon cancer.
Four months before her 64th birthday, Audrey died quietly in her sleep at her home in Tolochenaz, Switzerland.
The horse became startled during blank-ammunition practice and threw her to the ground.
worldroots.com /brigitte/famous/h/hepburn2.htm   (519 words)

  
 Tribute to the Humanitarian Work of Audrey Hepburn | Pavilion
Franca Price lost no time signing up in 1995 when she read in the local paper that volunteers were being sought for the Pavillon.
Hepburn’s career as a dancer and actress spanned just over 40 years and included memorable films such as Roman Holiday in 1952 (for which she won one of those Oscars), Sabrina, War and Peace, Love in the Afternoon, Charade, and My Fair Lady.
But none has been as active as Price, who has taken time away from her full-time job with Nestlé, her British-born husband and her two now-adult children for the museum’s sake.
www.geocities.com /audreyhepburnunicef/pavilionarticle.html   (1031 words)

  
 Audrey Hepburn jam is last straw - theage.com.au
The sons of Audrey Hepburn, hurt by what they saw as the crass commercialisation of their mother's name, yesterday forced the closure of the museum dedicated to her in the Swiss village where she lived for 30 years.
Privacy was the reason Hepburn chose to live in Tolochenaz, an hour's drive from Geneva.
But her family says the village has exploited its most famous resident by posting signs to her grave and selling souvenirs such as Audrey Hepburn jam.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/10/31/1036026978237.html   (347 words)

  
 Zap2it: Hepburn Sons Attack 'Tacky' Swiss Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
HOLLYWOOD (Zap2it.com)  Audrey Hepburn's family is upset that a museum in Switzerland is exploiting the late actress' name.
Sons Sean Ferrer and Luca Dotti claim that an exhibition in Tolochenaz, where Hepburn lived for 30 years before her death in 1993 of colon cancer, is tacky and exploitive.
The museum, which opened six years ago, was initially thought of as a tribute to Hepburn's movies ("Breakfast at Tiffany's," "Sabrina") and her charitable work.
www.zap2it.com /movies/news/pstory/0,3382,14273,00.html   (187 words)

  
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services.datasport.com /2004/lauf/tdpv/etape3/CITYT.HTM   (78 words)

  
 Hepburn Audrey Switzerland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Audrey Hepburn lived with her first husband in Bürgenstock, near Lucerne.
After her divorce in 1963, she moved to Tolochenaz on the shores of Lake Geneva.
She worked as an ambassador for UNICEF and held this position until her death in 1993, in her home in Tolochenaz.
www.switzeland.isyours.com /e/celebrities/bios/45.html   (300 words)

  
 TIME Europe Magazine: Breakup at Tiffany's -- Oct. 14, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Audrey Hepburn spent the last 30 years of her life in this quiet Swiss village, and she wanted to be buried here in a cemetery close to her sprawling 19th century house.
The actress, who died of colon cancer in January 1993, liked the simplicity of Tolochenaz, located 40 km east of Geneva.
But her legacy has fueled a conflict between her sons and some residents of the village.
www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901021014-361586,00.html   (752 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The film was a great success earning Audrey her fifth and final Academy Award nomination, but it did no good for the Ferrer marriage.
Audrey however did take the children to Tolochenaz while Andrea stayed in Rome, leaving him plenty of time to party at the local discos.
In 1976, after years away from the silver screen, Audrey decides to jump back into her acting, starring alongside Sean Connery in "Robin and Marian," the tales of the older Robin and Marian, what they were after the "ever after" ending.
iml.jou.ufl.edu /projects/Spring02/Talbot/page4bio.htm   (758 words)

  
 Morges : Attractions | Frommers.com
The town's newest, and in many ways most interesting, museum is the Pavillon Audrey Hepburn, chemin des Plantées, in the neighboring hamlet of Tolochenaz (tel.
Hepburn's grave in the village cemetery (Cimitière de Tolochenaz).
The museum is open year-round Tuesday to Sunday from 1:30 to 5:30pm.
www.frommers.com /destinations/morges/2588010029.html   (572 words)

  
 Wine - Winery | Uvavins - winery in CH-1131 Tolochenaz Waadt (Vaud), Switzerland
Uvavins - winery in CH-1131 Tolochenaz Waadt (Vaud), Switzerland
Uvavins is a winery in CH-1131 Tolochenaz in the area Waadt (Vaud).
Uvavins and CH-1131 Tolochenaz (Waadt (Vaud)) are located in Switzerland.
www.vintner-web.com /www/en/winery/winery/5150_uvavins.html   (135 words)

  
 Trivia and Information page 1; Audrey Hepburn a.k.a. Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Rusten : Celebrity Avenue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Hepburn was remembered in a U.S. postage stamp released by the Postal Service on Wednesday as part of its Legends of Hollywood series.
Hepburn's family is blasting a museum dedicated to the late actress and wants it shut down — her two sons charge that an exhibition in Tolochenaz, Switzerland, is cheapening and exploiting her good name.
Hepburn's sons, who gave priceless items from her private collection to a non-profit making museum in Swiss village of Tolochenaz, have demanded the museum return their mother's belongings to them - because the venue is turning into a tourist circus.
www.celebavenue.com /audrey_hepburn_trivia.html   (307 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Version - Crying foul over
'Fair Lady's' memory
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Audrey Hepburn's son says his mother would be heartbroken if she were alive today.
Sean Ferrer tells us there's a battle erupting in the small town of Tolochenaz, Switzerland, where the "Breakfast at Tiffany's" actress lived for the last 30 years of her life - and where she is buried.
At the Audrey Hepburn Pavilion, a few yards from the cemetery, locals are outraged that Ferrer and his brother Luca Dotti - Audrey's sons from her marriages to actor Mel Ferrer and Italian psychiatrist Andrea Dotti - want to close down a seven-year exhibition of the actress' memorabilia.
www.nydailynews.com /news/gossip/v-pfriendly/story/30750p-29193c.html   (925 words)

  
 Medtronic history at Medtronic.com
Medtronic today operates from more than 250 manufacturing facilities, sales offices, research centers, education centers and administration facilities that serve customers in 120 countries.
Medtronic's Europe/Middle East/Africa operations are headquartered in Tolochenaz, Switzerland and Asia/Pacific operations are headquartered in Kawasaki, Japan.
Six years later Medtronic relocated its European headquarters to Tolochenaz, Switzerland, and constructed a new facility that includes administrative offices, a research and development facility, and a manufacturing center.
www.paradigm.de /corporate/medtronic_todaya.html   (650 words)

  
 Friderici   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
To date, we employ some 300 people at our Tolochenaz, Embrach, Yverdon-les-Bains and Geneva branches,
With a fleet of 40 small delivery vehicles and cars, 180 trucks, 280 trailers and semi-trailers, 15 cranes + track-type loaders, wheel loaders, fork lift trucks, excavators and diverse equipement,
Activities : all kind of transport all over Europe, crane works, handling, gravel pit exploitation, storehouses rental.
www.friderici.com /friderici/anglais/fride_e.htm   (62 words)

  
 GoneMovie -> Biography Audrey Hepburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
I know I have more sex appeal on the tip of my nose than many women in their entire bodies
A small museum celebrating her career and her work for the UN Children’s Fund was opened at Tolochenaz, Switzerland, where Audrey lived for 30 years.
Audrey has a star on Hollywood Boulevard (Vine street).
www.gonemovies.com /WWW/Acteur/ActeurXtra/HepburnAudreyX.asp   (266 words)

  
 silhouettes - FM Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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The first snow this winter (image # 1, early January) near my home in Tolochenaz.
The last (so far) snow near Nyon, where I work (image # 2, early March), freshly fallen on the plane trees growing in the parking lot.
www.fredmiranda.com /forum/topic2/197447   (477 words)

  
 Audrey Bio
Date of Birth (location) 4 May 1929, Brussels, Belgium
Date of death (details) 20 January 1993, Tolochenaz, Switzerland.
Son, Sean Ferrer, with first husband, Mel Ferrer
www.geocities.com /hollywood/academy/6187/audreybio.html   (534 words)

  
 Technical Visit to Medtronic International Plant - Event   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Medtronic is concerned with the design and manufacture of electronic medical equipment mainly for implant use.
Visit Report - Medtronic, near Morges On Sept. 1st, about a dozen of us descended on Medtronic in Tolochenaz, the Swiss branch of the world’s largest maker of heart pacemakers, defibrillators and neurological implants.
An impressive site, with large American style training suites and clean room manufacturing facilities.
www.iee.org /objectInvoke.cfm?objectID=59202B3B-DD3C-AD84-72B656E6202CB4E2   (210 words)

  
 Destination Hollywood Tribute to Audrey Hepburn
Date of Birth: May 4, 1929, Brussels, Belgium
Date of Death: January 20, 1993 Tolochenaz, Switzerland
We're looking for a biography of Audrey Hepburn, be the first to conTribute!
www.destinationhollywood.com /celebrities/audreyhepburn/careerbasics_content.shtml   (149 words)

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