Here’s a winning formula: Take one stunning, petite, blonde woman, add substantial grace and charm, blend with warmth and sophistication, and you have Sandra Farris.Gentility, kindness, softness, she is also "very real" as her friend, Delia Ehrlich puts it, and effervescent, with an easy, lilting laugh and a warm, inclusive personality. An only child, daughter of Harold and Lee, Sandra was born in La Jolla, moved north to the Bay Area to attend the College of Notre Dame in Belmont, and never looked south again.
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The film everyone has been waiting for is finally coming out on DVD; the greatest false representative of Kazakhstan makes his way to digital in "Borat." BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTANNever before have broken English and blundering Americans been more fun than in "Borat," from comic genius Sacha Baron Cohen, who reprises the role from his HBO series "Da Ali G Show" in the movie.
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Near the end of the enormous, jam-packed exhibit of her fashion designs at the de Young Museum, there is a puzzling, meaningful quote from Vivienne Westwood: "You have a much better life if you wear impressive clothes."Skipping the debatable point whether clothes make the man — or, rather, the woman in this case — why "impressive," rather than "beautiful"? If you read on and, more importantly, if you go to see the exhibit, you will have some tentative answers.
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is finally here, rocking the sold-out seats of Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall with its vigorous choreographic holler. In six local shows presented by Cal Performances, the New York company offers three delicious, diverse programs.
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About this series: In a saloon town such as San Francisco, the bartender plays a crucial role. Confessor, friend, sounding board — the man or woman behind the plank sees to it that our needs are met with elegance, grace and often wit. They see humanity at its best and most convivial, but also offer a nod and a welcome to the lonely. But what do they see when they look at us? What are the tricks of their trade? And what lessons have they learned along the way? In this new Examiner weekly feature, we talk to some of our local bartenders to find out.
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The obvious: One of the most charming, delightful and altogether sunniest singles in ages belongs to a 23-year-old, Beirut-born Londoner named Mica Penniman, who performs under the moniker Mika.Already a No. 1 hit overseas, "Grace Kelly" melds barrelhouse piano and a campy vaudevillian melody with the singer’s soaring Freddie Mercury acrobatics (even name-checking Mercury in the lyrics), and frappes it all into the most sugary confection on the air waves. But the truth behind the track is anything but sweet.
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There’s one scene in Adele Edling Shank’s adaptation of that seemingly most unadaptable of literary works, Virginia Woolf’s 1927 modernist novel "To the Lighthouse," that’s exquisite. The Ramsay family (eccentric father; secretly unhappy but outwardly gracious mother; two of their eight kids) and their houseguests gather for dinner. They mime polite chit-chat as a spotlight moves from character to character, each breaking away to confide to the audience what they’re actually thinking.
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Nobody was more surprised to hear "Who’s Sorry Now?" on American Bandstand for the first time than Connie Francis. After 16 flop records, the singer had given up her dreams of musical stardom. Six monthsinto her college studies, Francis tuned into the popular television program and got the shock of her life. On New Year’s Day 1958, Dick Clark not only played the cover of the 1923 hit Francis recorded at the insistence of her father, he declared she was "heading straight for the No. 1 spot."
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So revved up and so dim. Lackluster adventures and immature gags dominate "Wild Hogs," a comedy about four midlife buddies who hit the highway on their Harleys, aching to revive their flagging vigor. In an early scene, one of the guys rebels against his diet regimen and wolfs down a stick of butter. That’s about as funny as this movie gets.
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Anna Nicole Smith’s body is finally set to be laid to rest. And the late model’s funeral will be an appropriately "over-the-top" affair befitting her larger-than-life personality, a friend involved in planning the service told the Associated Press. "It will be a very beautiful Anna Nicole send-off," Anna pal Patrik Simpson said. "Of course it will be over the top because it’s Anna Nicole."The burial is set for today at 10:30 a.m. in the Bahamas. In keeping with what a Miami judge determined to be Anna’s wishes, she will be buried next to her son, Daniel.
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