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Curt Eaton debuts with graphic new account of sex with spirit of Audrey Hepburn MASON, Mich., March 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Imagine a man meeting the first real love of his life at age 63 -- the thing is, she's already been dead for three years. Such was the case with Curt Eaton, and in his new book, "A" (published by AuthorHouse), he chronicles his graphic, complicated, overtly sexual afterlife relationship with the spirit of Audrey Hepburn. "Does life continue after death?" Eaton, a retired...

Famed French ballerina Violette Verdy, now a professor at Indiana University, says she is honored to be selected for France's Legion of Honor. The 75-year-old professor said learning she had been selected to become a knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor was a shock given the traditional military implications of the French honor, The Indianapolis Star reported Sunday. It's heroic and sacrificial -- there's something of giving your life to your country, she said. In a way, I...

Ballerina Nora Kovach, who defected from the Soviet bloc in the 1950s, has died in Miami at the age of 77, her husband says. Steve Farago said the Hungarian ballerina died Jan. 18 of unspecified causes after suffering from a short illness, The New York Times reported Sunday. Kovach was joined in her 1953 defection from East Berlin by fellow Budapest State Opera Ballet star Istvan Rabovsky. Impresario Paul Szilard wrote in his memoir, Under My Wings, that the dancing pair drew international...

Olga Lepeshinskaya, who danced with Russia's Bolshoi Ballet for 30 years after becoming a star at 18, died Saturday. She was 92. The Culture Ministry announced that Lepeshinskaya will lie in state at the Bolshoi Theater before her burial, probably Tuesday, Itar-Tass reported. Lepeshinskaya's active career as a dancer occurred during the Soviet era. She joined the Bolshoi in 1933 after graduating from the Moscow Choreographic School. She was a favorite of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and was...

By Jackie Hunter Posh Spice yesterday stepped out in an Audrey Hepburn-style monochrome shift dress and won compliments from the fashion world. It's the latest in a string of sartorial hits by the woman for whom too much was once never enough Dear Victoria, The only occasion on which I've seen you in the flesh (and let's use that term sparingly) was five years ago at a Vogue party in New York. The sighting prompted a sharp double-take - who on Earth let this ten-year-old child wearing a...

By Brett Zongker WASHINGTON - Barbra Streisand, actor Morgan Freeman and country singer George Jones will be honored by the Kennedy Center in December along with choreographer Twyla Tharp and musicians Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey of The Who. Kennedy Center Chairman Stephen Schwarzman hailed the "extraordinary genius and tenacity" of the 2008 lifetime achievement award recipients, who were announced Tuesday. Their work, Schwarzman said, has "redefined the way we see, hear and feel the...

The Imagine Ballet Theatre, directed by Raymond Van Mason, will present a performance Friday at Peery's Egyptian Theater, 2415 Washington Blvd., Ogden. The performance, which culminates IBT's summer dance intensive, will begin at 7 p.m.. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased by calling 801-395-3227 or logging on to www.peerysegyptiantheater.com/ticket.asp Works by Broadway star Gary Flannery will be presented along with other works by Ballet West ballet mistress Pamela Robinson-Harris,...

By Ken Keuffel, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C. Jul. 5--The long Independence Day weekend has finally arrived, beckoning us to spend it with family and friends. The usual diversions may be on hold. For fans of area dance performances, however, this is peak season, thanks to the American Dance Festival, which is running through July 19 at Duke University in Durham. If you have no commitments tonight, get to Page Auditorium for a program of works by two of this country's more senior virtuoso...

LONDON (Reuters) - The iconic black dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 film "Breakfast at Tiffany's" will go on sale in December with an estimated price tag of 50-70,000 pounds ($90-130,000), Christie's auctioneers said on Wednesday. The dress, designed by Givenchy and worn by Hepburn in the memorable opening scene of the classic romantic comedy, is being auctioned on behalf of the City of Joy Aid charity which helps underprivileged children in India. It is the star lot of the...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Choreographer Twyla Tharp, who brought the music of Billy Joel to the theater with her hit show "Movin' Out," now will bring the songs of Bob Dylan to Broadway. "The Times They Are A-Changin'," a musical conceived, directed and choreographed by the Tony Award-winning Tharp, opens this fall, according to a release issued on Monday by her press agent. The musical, which premiered in San Diego this year, will recount the tale of a young man coming to age, using...