I was Christmas shopping at a used bookstore with Whigwham in December when I stumbled upon a cheap paperback biography of Grace Kelly. Both Stearns and Ilana love Grace Kelly, and so I picked it up. Then, yesterday, I stumbled upon the recent New Yorker article about Grace Kelly (which notably, although I'm not sure how suitably, turnes to Burke's On the Sublime and Beautiful for a definition of grace). Halfway through the article, I got to thinking about what other celebrities Grace Kelly might have known which led me to these two pictures (shown here). Of course, it is these two pictures (and I think only these two) that the author describes in his article:
"the albino squid that appeared to have landed on Princess Grace’s scalp, in lieu of a hat, when she visited President and Mrs. Kennedy in 1962"
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"If you want to see Hollywood at the last gasp of its otherworldliness, before the old glory gave way, consult the photograph of Kelly and her fellow-presenter, Audrey Hepburn, backstage at the Academy Awards in 1956. ... Both are in profile, gazing in expectation, and both wear white gloves. They could be at their first Communion. (Okay, so first communion is a bit of a stretch--I'm not sure you see so much shoulder at first communion.)
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I was entertained by the more salacious details of that article, another fine example of the difference between appearance and reality.
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