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Audrey, a documentary by 26-year-old British film-maker Helena Coan, comes from the producers of the Bafta-nominated McQueen, about the life of fashion designer Alexander McQueen, and is packed with revelations about one of the most enduring of all Hollywood’s stars. Throughout her career, Hepburn came to be seen as the epitome of elegance and grace. Born into European nobility in 1929 but devastated by the impact of the second world war as a child in the Netherlands, Hepburn kept a tight lid on her personal problems until her death in 1993 from cancer. Coan, who spent three years researching her...

Audrey Hepburn was born on the 4th of May, 1929, the daughter of a baron and baroness. She was Belgian royalty who became Hollywood’s equivalent: a much loved movie star, one of Bogie’s many great babes. She was nominated for 6 Oscars and won two. Her other major awards were: 3 BAFTA's, 1 Emmy, 2 Golden Globes, 1 Grammy, 1 Screen Actors Guild Award and 2 Tony's. That's modern royalty. Not inherited, but earned by hard work and intelligence, proved by her Hank Williams-like human-centered mastery of the English language in statements such as: “I was born with an enormous...

Whether you're cozied up with your sweetheart or enjoying a girls' night, grab some popcorn (and chocolate) and treat yourself to the classics.Picking a movie is always a daunting task in my family. My mom and I have had to sit through our fair share of war movies with no discernible plot, while my dad and brother have patiently suffered through “Gone With The Wind.” The beauty of a good rom-com is having enough “rom” to satisfy more sentimental audiences and enough “com” to keep less romantic viewers interested. As a connoisseur of the “rom,” I can’t guarantee all the...

The world fell in love with her doe-eyed beauty and stylish perfection in such films as Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Sabrina, but Audrey Hepburn‘s real-life story was always far more complicated. “When my mother told us about her life, she never talked about Hollywood or her films,” says her younger son Luca Dotti, 49. “She would tell us stories about the war. And she spoke about good and evil.” Even as a young boy he says, “I knew from her eyes, her expressions, and her shaky hands that there was more to the story.” 26 years after her death, a...

First Lady Melania Trump arrived in windy Melsbroek, Belgium, alongside President Trump for their week-long international trip, wearing a classic trench coat and black stilettos. Mrs. Trump channeled Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s as she stepped off Air Force One in a Burberry trench coat and slick black Christian Louboutin pumps.

Noman has never seen the remake of Sabrina. But, he has wondered why anybody would bother to tamper with perfection. For starters, it doesn't get much better than William Holden, Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn. Though the male leads were big stars, it is Hepburn's picture. She can do more with her eyes and face than Michael Jordan could do with a basketball. It is a magical story about the chauffeur's daughter who suffers a life-long, hopeless crush on the master's playboy son (Holden's David Larrabee), only to grow into an elegant beauty during a two-year stay in Paris. This...

BROOKLYN, NY (PIX11)— Breakfast at Tiffany's is a popular movie classic, but it is now coming under fire from Asian groups in Brooklyn who are asking people to boycott the movie. Breakfast at Tiffany's is set to be shown on August 14th as part of a free film series in Brooklyn Bridge Park

Then again, in turn, his performance doesn’t seem quite so bad when compared with Mickey Rooney in the role of Mr Yunioshi, Holly’s bucktoothed, yellowface Japanese neighbour. Though the problem here is less with the acting than with the stereotypical nature of the role. “O me so sorry! Me love you long time!” It makes The Black and White Minstrel Show look like a government ethnic minority recruitment campaign. Apparently, director Blake Edwards subsequently expressed regret, saying “looking back, I wish I had never done it”, but this doesn’t change the fact that one of the most acclaimed films of...

Sometimes you wonder what planet Vice President Dick Cheney is living on. Last month, speaking of the war in Iraq, Cheney told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in a prickly interview: "(The) bottom line is that we've had enormous successes, and we will continue to have enormous successes. It is hard. It is difficult." Anyone keeping up with the daily news from Baghdad knows that few people in the last few months -- especially those in the military -- are bragging about big successes to quell the violence in Iraq. Even within the White House, Cheney seems like a man lost in...