The refurbishment has been painstaking, involving, for starters, hundreds of sheets of 23 1/2-carat, double-weight gold leaf, which have restored the 12-ton, 25-foot-high statue of Albert to its original glittering splendor.
The picture done in Loiseau's highly original Pointillist brushwork glitters in a luminous haze.
In early theatrical trailers for Glitter, the original version of "Loverboy" was still featured.
The recent turnaround was led by the Kempinski Grand Hotel Heiligendamm (49-38203-7400; whichrandhotel-heiligendamm.de), whiconvertedted six buildings including the Kurhaus, the duke's original house, into a glittering seaside campus.
Among the rarities are three pieces in leather, a saddle with its original velvet upholstery and glittering horses' helmets, called chanfrons -- one in the Gothic style, another in a fantastic dragonlike form.
Digitagit online Possibly Peter Kay's introduction to the Brit Awards – "20 minutes of entertainment dragged over a two-hour show" (Media Monkey's Diary, 22 February) – was muted because someone recognised it from Johnny Carson opening an Oscar ceremony in the '80s, but his original "two hours of glittering entertainment" worked better because it didn't telegraph the punch in advance.
At a New York press preview of the show in October, the ensemble presented three powerhouse numbers -- "Counting Down to Christmas," "A Major Award" and "You'll Shoot Your Eye Out" -- which made it easy to see why the original Broadway production nabbed glittering reviews from New York Magazine and The New York Times, among other media outlets, when it opened last year.
A nostalgic history that goes back to the late 1960s and the glitter of the original Cosmos side in the 1970s that included Pele holds lingering appeal.
Remember that you can always paint an extra layer of glitter paint once the original layer has dried.
