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NEWS ARCHIVE
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| Hepburn, Hughes Love Letters Up For Grabs |
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May 30, 2005: Two dozen telegrams sent between Hepburn and billionaire industrialist and pioneer aviator Howard Hughes are up for auction by a Dallas, Texas, auctioneer. Bidding can also be done online June 22 and 23. "The telegrams were sent between 1937 and 1939. It's a year later than some Hollywood historians suspected their relationship lasted," said auctioneer Tom Slater, director of Heritage-Slater Americana. The group of 24 Western Union telegrams is expected to sell for at least $25,000, according to Slater. See more about the auction
here. (Michelle Solomon's Celebrity Chatter) |
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| The Philadelphia Story at the Old Vic |
Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Ehle
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 | May 12, 2005: "Barry's play lives or falls by the casting of Tracy herself; and rarely in history can there have been a part so immaculately tailored to its original actor, Katharine Hepburn. Wisely, Jennifer Ehle makes no attempt to impersonate Hepburn..." Read the full Guardian review. |
| May 11, 2005: Spacey rides to the rescue at last (The Telegraph) |
| April 17, 2005: Ehle feels Hepburn pressures (Contact Music) |
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| Cedar Hill Cemetery |
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May 8, 2005: Homages to Great Kate at Cedar Hill: "They come from all over to pay homage, lay claim and - sometimes - leave a little trinket to their goddess, the slim sylph of the silver screen." (Hartford Courant) |
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| Fenwick |
Fenwick
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| May 6, 2005: Former Hepburn Marsh Given To Land Trust: The marsh next to Hepburn's Fenwick home has been transferred to the Lynde Point Land Trust, which plans to clear a creek through the property and return native grasses and vegetation to the land. (Hartford Courant) |
| Mar. 11, 2005: Keeping the Sound at Bay: Kate's waterfront home in Old Saybrook is being renovated by its current owner, Frank Sciame, a New York builder/designer. (Hartford Courant) |
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| Katharine Hepburn Place |
Katharine Houghton at
Katharine Hepburn Place
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Mar. 14, 2005: Katharine Houghton was on hand for the ceremony in which the block in New York where Hepburn lived for 60 years - 49th Street between Second and Third avenues - was named "Katharine Hepburn Place." Here are photos plus the Turtle Bay Association's Feb. 14 press release announcing the event. (Thanks to JS)
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New DVD Releases
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The Academy Awards
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Cate Blanchett |
| March 2005: And the Oscar doesn't go to... (Vanity Fair): In a roomful of Oscar bridesmaids, that's Kate on the wall in this illustration by Edward Sorel. |
| Feb. 28, 2005: Blanchett pays tribute to Hepburn relatives (Contactmusic.com) |
| Feb. 28, 2005: Blanchett wins supporting actress Oscar (Reuters): "Thank you to Ms. Hepburn. The longevity of her career, I think, is an inspiration to everyone," she said in her acceptance speech. |
| Feb. 28, 2005: Blanchett a fave to win her first Oscar (Sydney Morning Herald) |
| Feb. 25, 2005: Hepburn gives Cate a helping hand (The Daily Telegraph, Sydney) |
| Feb. 23, 2005: Meet a few good women (The Telegraph, Calcutta) |
| Feb. 23, 2005: And the winner is...: Oscar fantasy has a real Hollywood ending (Chicago Tribune) |
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| The Aviator |
Cate Blanchett in
The Aviator |
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| Lauren Bacall: "There's an empty space in my life without Kate" |
Lauren Bacall |
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Feb. 7, 2005: In an exclusive extract from her autobiography, Lauren Bacall recalls her precious, 50-year friendship with another Hollywood legend, Katharine Hepburn: "She leaves me with so many pictures of her in so many different places at so many different times. She unknowingly made me aware of ways to live and to behave that were new to me. So although there is a large, empty space in my life without her, there is all that past to remember." Read the full Telegraph article.
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| Screen Actors Guild Awards |
Glenn Close |
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Feb. 5, 2005: Cate Blanchett is named Best Supporting Actress at the SAG Awards. And Glenn Close, in winning Best Actress in a TV movie for her performance as Eleanor of Aquitaine in the remake of The Lion in Winter, pays tribute to her predecessor in the role: Hepburn "had a real impact and was the reason why I got my first job." Read the full text of Glenn Close's acceptance speech, or watch the
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| "Christopher Columbus, what richness!" |
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Winter 2004: Read Playbill editor Judy Samelson's tribute, on the occasion of last summer's Sotheby's auction, in Bryn Mawr's Alumnae Bulletin.
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