“I loved Cary the most. It didn’t work out, but I loved him…. I was always my own worst enemy, but my husbands for the most part were pretty rotten, except for Cary Grant. But then he was only a dream.”
 
Barbara Hutton, Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise

“Star quality is the ability to project, without effort, the shape and essence of a unique personality, which had never existed before.”
 
Cecil Beaton, Persona Grata

Image Credit: The Happy Years, Diaries: 1944-48

“The nineties didn’t get going until January 11, 1992, when Nirvana’s Nevermind knocked Michael Jackson’s Dangerous out of the top spot on the Billboard 200. The eighties—and the Cold War—were put out of their misery almost on time when the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989.”
 
Dana Brown, Dilettante: True Tales of Excess, Triumph, and Disaster