Editors Letter: December 2012
In this the month of all things bright and beautiful, WAG sets out to scintillate with some of the most dazzling people, places and…
Kudos….
To Greenwich’s own Stuart Weitzman, who was honored with The Lifetime Achievement Award for his many successful years as a luxury shoe designer by…
Crazy stupid love
Among the baker’s dozen of dazzlers appearing in WAG’s December “Bedazzled” issue, few are more scintillating than Keira Knightley, titular star of Joe Wright’s…
A poet and we know it
Our own Jennifer Pappas of Class and Sass fame has just released her first album, “Poetry in Motion,” in which her words are…
All aboard!
The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx is like a mini vacation, and that is never truer than at holiday time with its…
Mama’s boys
“Skyfall” the latest James Bond thriller, has to be one of the best and oddest 007 adventures. On the one hand, there’s the kaleidoscopic…
School for scandal
Holly Petraeus went dumpling, and Gen. Petraeus Kardashian-ed up. There’s a connection between these two clauses but no causality. In other words, just because…
No desperate housewife
As fans of the “Real Housewives of New York City” know, Ramona Singer likes her glass of Pinot Grigio. So it was no doubt…
Lights, Camera, Cello
MUSIC OR JOURNALISM? Why not choose both? Paula Zahn – broadcast journalist, cellist and all-around cultural goddess – has always found a way to…
ANDREW MCCARTHY FINDS HIMSELF AT HOME IN THE WORLD
In his beautifully written new travel memoir, “The Longest Way Home,” actor-director Andrew McCarthy casts himself as a modern-day Odysseus, struggling to get back to his own patiently waiting Penelope – the soon-to-be wife he identifies as “D.”
‘ON THE ROAD’ TO STARDOM (MAYBE)
The long-awaited adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s important – some would say pretentious – novel “On the Road” hits the big screen in December. Will it make Brad Pitt-ish Garrett Hedlund – in the pivotal role of Dean Moriarty – a star at last?
Are We There Yet?
What is it about the road that beckons, that stretches out – teasingly, tantalizingly — before us?
THE DEVIL MADE ’EM DO IT… OR MAYBE NOT
What if there were no free will? That’s the thesis behind “Free Will” (Free Press), a provocative little tome by Sam Harris, everyone’s favorite atheist now that Christopher Hitchens has gone to meet his, er, non-Maker.
THE WEDDING SINGER
Former divorce lawyer says it with music ALEX DONNER has seen them coming and going. Or should that be going and coming? “In the entertainment…
LIFE UNDER THE AMALFI SUN
Move over, “Under the Tuscan Sun” and “A Good Year.” There’s a new sheriff in town and she’s here to offer a variation on the foreigner-goes-Continental-in-search-of-love-and-life’s-meaning theme. Her name is Lisa Fantino, and her book, “Amalfi Blue: Lost & Found in the South of Italy,” is due out mid-January from Wanderlust Women Travel Ltd., her Mamaroneck-based concierge travel business.
OIL AND WATER DO MIX FOR JILLY DYSON
Jilly Dyson has “sailed” the world on her marine paintings, whose swirling impasto evokes both Winslow Homer and J.M.W. Turner. I caught up with her on a beautiful fall day aboard SeaFair, the mega-yacht venue for exhibits and dining, when it was docked in Greenwich.
SEIZE THE DAY
George T. Constantin – president and CEO of Heritage Realty Services L.L.C. – is not your typical businessman. Cultured, multilingual and athletic, he combines Old World sophistication with New World industry. As he is fond of saying: “Time is the only commodity. Use it well.”
007 LEAVES US SHAKEN AND STIRRED
James Bond, who celebrates his 50th anniversary in films with the release of “Skyfall” Nov. 9, is a man’s fantasy of a man the way Mr. Darcy is a woman’s fantasy of a man.
Happy V Day!
St. Valentine’s Day is still 118 days away. But it’s never too early for Tiffany & Co., featured in September WAG’s “Class Acts” issue, to let fans know how the emporium will be celebrating. With a little bling, of course.
Helping hands, creative minds
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the need to give – of your time, money and self – is greater than ever. Don’t…