In her professional photographs Ms. Oduye — a pre-med student at Cornell University until she realized she wanted to act — appears glamorous and sophisticated.
In many ways, Dolce & Gabbana, Roberto Cavalli and others built their brands by adapting Versace's formula of frank eroticism, red-carpet stunts (Jennifer Lopez's notorious "Jungle" dress with its navel-baring décolletage was a Versace design) and a strategy of enlisting celebrities to act as glamorous sandwich boards.
O.K., so they no longer send telegrams on opening night, but the theater is still the most glamorous act in town.
Very understated in Act I, with glamorous old Victrolas, minimal palace furniture and just a hint of the forest, it explodes in Act II with savage ferns, trees with scary branches and a fierce red sun.
When asked about Loren, he explained to reporters "I don't normally act with romantic, glamorous women ... she's a lot different from Harry Secombe".
Cécilia Sarkozy, wife of Nicolas Sarkozy, acted as a glamorous public partner during her husband's rising political career.
This is the only shocking, as opposed to gruelling or mock-glamorous, act of violence that I have witnessed onscreen in the past year, because it flashes out of nowhere, like lightning across a clear sky.
Bowie, and his many incarnations, served as the guide through many chapters of my youthful explorations: the gender-bending alien Ziggy Stardust; the zoomorphic freak-show act Halloween Jack; the glamorous Thin White Duke, whose sadness and debauchery provided a mirror as I tried to party through the low points of my 20s.
What seemed a glamorous and subversive act at the time seems perhaps more tragic now.
Not he; his act was just a wonderful, glamorous, beautiful, elegant joke.He was the person, he always said.
