Whitney Houston doesn't have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but the red carpet at the Hollywood Grauman's Chinese Theater lit up and glittered Thursday night for the premiere of "Sparkle," the remake of the 1976 cult classic about three sisters' quest for R&B legend.
Its exterior gold dome, recently regilded, is a familiar sight, glittering by day and illuminated by night.
She'd got on at the Kings Cross with Pepper, Luca, and Thalia, all four of them covered in sweat and glitter, Day at princess level surrounded by three majestic beings they'd had their Friday night out in London town and now they were ready to get back to Day's room and crash.
The Lemur, Banville/Black's latest, forsakes the pathologist Quirke and his seedy postwar Dublin for John Glass, a once-celebrated journalist now married to money and idling in a glittering present-day Manhattan.
Very unButlin's (apart from the general manager Mehudi who, yes, did mime the Birdie song on stage with his staff and dress up in three different glittering costumes a day).
Shares of Evercore Partners made a glittering debut last Friday, underscoring the interest in boutique investment banks.
An early highlight in this carefully choreographed week will be a glittering reception on Tuesday, with Mrs. Clinton as the host to Mr. Karzai and his ministers, in the State Department's ornate Benjamin Franklin Room.
These days, tours of the Eifman Ballet Theatre are rallying occasions for the Russian expatriate community, which was out in glittering force for Tuesday's first night of the choreographer's Anna Karenina.
What my generation knows about brand loyalty -- for many people, the strongest faith they have -- it learned from Walt, from Tinkerbell, from the sight of the glittering castle on Sunday nights.
