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Elizabeth V

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Rajesh Khanna, Merv Griffin, Brooke Astor, Luciano Pavarotti, Andrei Voznesensky.

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• Beautiful body and soul, without being rarefied

  Grace Kelly

  17 October 2005

  I wish H.S.H. was around today. She certainly would have a thing or two to say about the world which would be constructive. She was one of the few women ever to be beautiful body and soul, without being rarefied. In her elegance she weighed form against function and comported herself with a natural dignity. Grace's children have turned out well. Consider their honesty-can't be beat - just like Grace - the kindest and most caring human being that ever was.

• The greatest living thespian

  Derek Jacobi

  17 October 2005

  The greatest living thespian in the whole universe...ever-the summit. He takes us out of orbit with his performances. He is a para-signifier of sorts for greatness. Whether is it Edward De Vere - Shakespeare or Sophocles the only actor alive who can deliver the complex roles and an episode on Frasier with such perfection. The best living actor of our time. No wonder he is distingushed and acclaimed yet he has no ambitions for accolades but to simply still become a better thespian. Let those who can set this example of humility and integrity!

• The physical touches the spiritual

  Rajesh Khanna

  17 October 2005

  Rajesh Khanna is the greatest thespian India has ever produced because through the choice of his roles he made us love humanity and our brethren more. He has worked tirelessly for true democratic principles with his involvement in politics with Congress I. He is charismatic, articulate, kind, a handsome proud grandfather and still working for charities:Parkinson's telethon whenever he can help. He is also making a film again with Zeenat Aman where they will both rip the screen up in Jaan Let's Make Love. He has the speaking voice of Richard Burton and Dylan Thomas. Rajesh Khanna's sex appeal is still there and he can put his slippers under my bed anytime. Rajesh Khanna can persuade the faithless charm the invulnerable still!! His grace is one where the physical touches the spiritual.

• An easy cosmopolitanism

  Zeenat Aman

  17 October 2005

  Zeenat Aman is together with Sophia Loren as one of the most beautiful women on the planet. An easy cosmopolitanism about her exuded in her impeccable manners and taste. Contrary to her sex-symbol status as actress I find her cerebral and with the energy of a Katharine Hepburn. A talented actress,a devoted mother, a magnificent human being and a great lady!

• Ali McGraw, the Lovemark of love

  Ali McGraw

  04 November 2005

  From the day I saw her in "Love Story" Ali McGraw has always been a Lovemark for me. She is and was a natural beauty in appearance who dared to be a brunette when blondes ruled the world. Her being true to herself made her very sexy and at the Oscars a couple of years ago I saw the same truth she always carries about her. "I want the troops home for Christmas" and "I think it is time" are two lines from Love Story that still ring in my ears thirty five years later and I have goosebumps. Because of Ali McGraw, the Lovemark of love, Love Story remains my favourite movie.

• A creative genius to be reckoned with

  Leonard Cohen

  04 November 2005

  Leonard Cohen is a great Canadian poet deserving the Nobel prize in Literature already.Had he not ever written a verse he certainly has lived the poetic life and had the poetic experience. I have seen him in Greece many years ago. I understand he had bought a house there in 1958. Now he is a Buddhist and free of hope and desire. Leonard Cohen can write circles around everyone. He is a creative genius to be reckoned with. Mr.Cohen means more to us than you will ever know.

• She dared to move

  Lauren Hutton

  07 November 2005

  Lauren Hutton was the most fascinating and liberating model of all time. Always in a formal gown she leaped, she dared to move in the clothes that she was given to model. I don't think there are many pictures of her standing still. She looked laughingly into the camera as if she was enjoying the modelling process and telling us to love life through her eyes. Recently, she has come up with the best make-up kit ever. You have to see it to believe it. An ingenius woman, a superb model and a wonderful human being Lauren Hutton is my lovemark for not forgetting to take us women forward!!

• Still has that sophisticated elegance

  Gucci

  10 November 2005

  I remember Gucci before it was revised to be so cutting edge (simulated bamboo heels on shoes}. At that time before "Free Trade" here in Canada you could get lots of Gucci at nominal prices when on sale. And so I splurged on shoes ,a skirt (all of which I still wear} a dress, a cashmere jacket,luggage and finally writing paper. I still have some of the delicious writing paper in chartruese as the blue went sailing out first in all the notes I wrote at that time. The word has changed a lot since 1987 but Gucci still has that sophisticated elegance it always had. Occasionally now, I splurge, but where would I be without my Gucci?

• Acting excellence

  Rajesh Khanna

  07 August 2007

  A life without the acting excellence of Rajesh Khanna is a life with no ideals. Unlike others, this exceptional thespian has never used the acting or characteristic themes of a thriller, nor the rudiments of esoteric psychological investigation as a means to a portrayal. Without faltering he has presented the uncovering of the psychic expressions of protagonists as varied as the colours of the rainbow.I perceive that he personifies the ideas of faith, resistance and irreconcilabity to untruths and injustice. I deeply esteem and apprecaite his faith and belief through his charismatic portrayals. Rajesh Khanna is a Lovemark because he is the one of the world’s most consumate actors. He is a human being whose humanistic significance history will evaluate and re-evalute because with a syllable from his golden voice he teaches the world how to forgive and love.

• The king of all voyages

  Rajesh Khanna

  08 August 2007

  Rajesh Khanna whose heart is epic has given what is stronger than the wind’s longing. The seashores have sung it and sing it still. And shall sing it until the sun goes to sleep and lowers every light. For Rajesh Khanna is the captain with the endless eyes. He caresses and speaks not with words alone but with his eyes. The North winds have ascribed this captain’s cinematic and humanitarian accomplishments. Storms study the sea and spell out his name. Lightning flashes scibble his unmatched stature with white pencils on the backdrop of mountains. Rajesh Khanna is the one who spells out the messages of time through the mystagogical of his theatrical roots. On screen we see the history of the sea and the effortless building out of sand of the most incredible dreams. Because he has nothing else to do. No space in which to breathe and to spread the endless skein of his hopes. Memory is a longing because time encircles him and he understands it like no one else. The land has no balm nor the mountains air. The sea has no ships for us now. Rajesh Khanna rhapsodize to us at last of sorrow and of joy for you are king of all voyages.

• Born to talk and live

  Merv Griffin

  14 August 2007

  Like the world that knew him I was saddened to hear of the death of Merv Griffin. The most definitive word to describe him is that he was "gracious", not just theoretically, but in practice. He was exuberant about life. He was charming and observant with that amazing sense of humour. Merv discovered Mrs. Miller in his early show’s audience and was announced originally by the late great English thespian Arthur Treacher. Merv had sparkling conversation because he was considerate, well bred and a diplomat. He was from the old world of class and manners. Charismatic Merv Griffin you will be missed in more ways than one. The fields of Elysium are illumined by that unforgettable brilliant smile. I will never forget him but remember the fun loving gentleman apart who was beloved in life and in death not forgotten. Born to talk and live. Thanks for it all Merv.

• An iconic symbol

  Brooke Astor

  16 August 2007

  I loved Brooke Astor and looked up to her for so many reasons. She was a great philanthropist who coined the phrase that money is like manure and not good unless you spread it around. Could be because her third husband left her an astounding $500 million way back when she was widowed. Brooke was always exceptionally elegant and appropriately attired. She once said I would not be caught dead in one thing: a dress with a slit up the side. She was famous for the emeralds she sported with such aplomb and ease as if she had been born in them. For me, Brooke became an iconic symbol in this fast paced world of a sensible conservative woman wearing her Oscar de la Renta suits with white gloves and walking stick coupled with strong values, morals and ethics.On the cover photo of her biography by Frances Kiernan called 'The Last Mrs Astor' she is wearing a beautiful emerald green ballgown that could easily be a Charles James creation. Brooke looks like a figurine...and that is how I wil remember her a beautiful woman body and soul and a beautiful and indomitable spirit that graced the world - to do good and make us think about our determination.

• Your music lives on forever

  Luciano Pavarotti

  08 September 2007

  Luciano, I am acoustically impoverished since you left us. There are no notes to resonate from your voice for the wounded and to comfort them. There is no one with that formidable stage presence yet gentleness. Where will I hear that undeniable perfect pitch delivered from every vocal note? The world grieves but your music lives on forever. As great as Chaliapin and Caruso, you did for opera what Callas did for bel canto. A white handkerchief which was your stage trademark is with you there among the other operatic luminaries in Upper Jerusalem. Luciano I would ask you for yet another curtain call if only I could. The world acknowledges how you have transfigured and brought opera to the world in another more accessible form. It bids adieu to one of its most superlative exponents but does not ever forget.

• More about popularity than acting

  Shah Rukh Khan

  08 October 2007

  Shah Rukh Khan is the most ingratiating of actors Bollywood ever produced. He has marvelled at the superstardom of Rajesh Khanna but more so even about that thespian’s command of acting. Shah Rukh Khan is a popular actor throughout the masses of the world. Possibly the most popular India ever produced, but it is a dubious proposition as to whether he is the best and I think his success lies there. In the fact that he is impervious to approval and disapproval and simply does what is asked of him while puttting his individual stamp on it. Certainly he is charming , endearing and cute. His fans are bananas about him. I would love to see him act together with Rajesh Khanna in a movie. SRK is more about popularity than acting and the epidemic of his effectiveness in being that which all people desire is at a peak.

• A superlative astrologer

  David Knight

  22 January 2008

  For David Knight astrology seeks. David Knight has taught throughout the years astrologically, that the fulfillment of celestial time is but the delineation of the stars composition of a second and third history. Astrology seeks. His charts are Lovemark compasses to guide us into our future. Coincidence when raised to Knight's astrological symbol occur with mathematical precision at the most crucial moment. David Knight is a Lovemark because he studies the rivers of the constellational sky. He is magnanimous with themes, counter themes, currents, the playing fields and struggles we must encounter in our lives. David Knight is a superlative astrologer and practitioner that is a Lovemark of the stars and their sayings because he has proved that astrology is not a personal invention but a received method for love of one's fellow man on his terrestrial path.

• Singular and exceptional

  Rajesh Khanna

  29 April 2008

  Rajesh Khanna was never alone. Others slept, their heads shrouded by a water jug of time. Khanna's eyes were never closed to us or to the eternity to which he is blessed to forever see. His love, that which he gave and received, could not be swept away no matter what wind prevailed. Khanna emerges from the depths of his own dimensions with stars and seashells in his hands. He is singular and exceptional and this prevails. With Rajesh Khanna we are locked in the moment of light and all prevasive memory.No truths about him are devoid of expectation. Others have been perishable monuments to history. hanna is the figure of those blessed in time on the impassivity of what is incorruptible. No heart that has felt his acting; heard the golden voice; known his magnanimity can be numbed; for he is the unforgotten action of unforgettable readiness. To be a thespian signifies light. Rajesh Khanna is is like looking at the noon day sun. Khanna is a Lovemark for in his eyes the vivid darkness of the seas of our souls are made into clear waters.

• Fascinating as she was beautiful

  Sperantza Vrana

  03 October 2009

  A goddess, Esperance Vrana was Greece's answer to and cross between Sophia Loren and Anita Ekberg. As an entertainer on the stage she was famous and infamous for her wasp waist and perfectly long legs that reached her eyebrows. She was famous for her rhythm and bravado in dancing capabilities. Vrana was charismatic in the cinema when she appeared in the "The Counterfeit Lire", answering to Fotopoulos as a lady of the night she gave some of the most famous "attacks" or answers in cinematic history and she made everything as believeable as Mae West's retorts but more natural in thier delivery. She was as fascinating as she was beautiful and talented. Vrana was distinctive in all that she did: whether penning her autobiography; or speaking so passionately about her astrological chart. She was a woman who represented love and that was conveyed in all that she accomplished. No one since her comes anywhere near her volcanic sexuality and her cerebral responses. She was, and is, incomparable. I think Vrana would have liked that. As Esperance crosses the river Styx, I am certain the ferry boatman is charmed and waives the fee of a coin. Esperance smiles her fantastic Virgoan smile and finds peace. That line about life is so true:"life is like a can" she once said twirling her handbag "empty it out and you have tin".

• A monumental breakthrough

  Andrei Voznesensky

  15 June 2010

  When I first read Vogue and an article on the Russian poet Voznesensky, I immediately read 'Anti Worlds' and realized what a monumental breakthrough the book was for the sheer reactions of the poet's perceptions to his surrounding world. His transposition of imaginative themes into colourfully pragmatic ones was without parallel. Voz furnished by analogy a table of multiple equivalents in poetic perceptions and verse. This verse was the most unusual written in the twentieth century that had any cohesion. Andre was a progressive thinker and came often to various places in the world where he would recite his poetry to packed auditoriums and halls. His turtleneck sweater became immortalized as he established his new aesthetic era. His poetry is progressive and provocative and he left the world alone earlier this month in his beloved Moscow without fanfare. Only the echo of his spoken dithyramb lives on forever. Andrei Voznesenky underscores the rise of subjective and free poetry that left the residuals of his often experimental poetry in the souls of his readers. Andrei Voznesensky was the greatest of poets because he taught us that Poetry never lies. For this he is a Lovemark who also taught us that without force but with his fountain pen the world can be transformed. May that final journey be as wonderful as your colourful life. Many kind thanks.

• Greece loved him

  Yiannis Dalianidis

  23 October 2010

  What Raj Kapoor was to India, Yiannis Dalianidis was to Greece. We went to see his movies in clusters of friends and at gatherings to scrutinize what his heroines were wearing. We went to decipher how many plots were within the scope of a single reel. Once Martha Karagianni had her costumes delayed and so Yiannis thought he would take parts of a Gypsy Rose Lee ostrich fan and cover her various areas in such a fashion that it is not suggestive at all but gives indications of all at that is divine within the human form. And that was the outcome. Martha became a goddess overnight with just a photo. He wrote "Crazy Girl" with Zoe Laskari another Dalianidis heroine who was also Miss Greece. Needless to say there are many who have attempted to sing the theme song and replicate the ambience of the movie in futility. For one cannot repeat a Raj Kapoor movie or heroine and the same is true of Yiannis Dalianidis work. I especially loved it when the elegant and impeccably groomed Rena Vlahopoulou and Konstataras were in his movies for exceptional comic relief. His movies were more about a lyricism life had that is not pervasive anymore, anywhere. It is about old world charms. But the internal themes are universal and will endure forever. Those musical finales of his were MGM like. Dalianidis loved the Greek people so as to devote his life to giving them entertainment that was unsurpassed. It is evident from the tributes that Greece loved him equally in return and will never forget. Many kind Lovemarks, thanks Yianni.

• The original

  Rajesh Khanna

  20 December 2010

  The legendary thespian with the golden voice is about to turn sixty-eight years of age on December 29. Rajesh Khanna is still passionate about life even now as he always was. It was from the emanating passion that he gave us those platinum performances that are immortal against the ravages of a coarse and shallow time. Rajesh Khanna had and has the sophistication of no other and even today no one compares to him. He is the original and the singular one who has been etched in our hearts and minds as the definitive superstar of Bollywood forever. Tempus fugit. May you have many more Lovemarks candles on your birthday cake for you are the thespian that has taught the world to love a bit more and inspired us to have better souls. Through your cinematic portrayals we should strive to recover our nobility and the likeness that is missing from the world.

• A pioneer and innovator

  Jack LaLanne

  25 January 2011

  Long before it was ever fashionable Jack LaLanne taught us about our physical bodies and about how to eat and exercise. LaLanne passed away at the age of ninety-six because he was proof that his theories worked. He had been sickly as a young man and decided to get fit. That is the way an entire continent began to follow him and his philosophies. I especially remember him on his televison show with a chair and some references to repetitions. Jack was a pioneer and innovator and he created a simplified practice for his fitness regime. There will never be another like him... "no donuts ladies" he would reproach with kindness. Those words echo in my ears.. as he leaves us. Gone, Jack LaLanne and all that he taught us will not be forgotten.

• She had a heart that encompassed

  Elizabeth Taylor

  24 March 2011

  Elizabeth Taylor bid the world adieu for the world of purple Lovemarks at the age of seventy nine. Taylor had been more than a magnificent thespian and iconic figure; household name; she had loved the world and assisted in the fight against the pestilence of AIDS. No other compared to her beauty and photogenia in youth. Taylor adorned herself with talismanic jewellery as if she had been born in those intraicate pieces. Her ability to wear clothes and to portray characters was natural and unlaboured. I am haunted by Taylor in the movie 'Suddenly Last Summer' where she is standing in a green sleeveless dress with hands behind her back. Although she personally did not agree that she deserved the Oscar for 'Butterfield Eight' I happen to think it was one of her best performances and a reflection of one of the aspects of her tumultuous life. It is no surprise that Taylor died of congstive heart failure. She had a heart that encompassed, that embraced the world, and more. Thank you for teaching us how to love and enjoy life more each day and how each day we must strive to die a little less. The chronicle of time will not deceive or forget,nor will those who have loved you.

• Beloved by the cinegoer

  Zeenat Aman

  18 December 2011

  With the death of DevAnand we come to re-evaluate the Lovemarks lady thespian Zeenat Aman. Suddenly we realize how distinctively original and perennial this heroine of Bollywood was and is. Zeenat is the only actress of Bollywood ever to have been a heroine with the Navketan banner and the Raj Kapoor banner. Through her cinematic portrayals we see a progressive, liberal and thoroughly original mind at work bringing nuances to characters which are often repeated on the screen but never with the success that Zeenat brought to them. Zeenat is ahead of her time. She is visonary as though she has a window on a time tunnel. Zeenat has always had a cult following and now she has a following that makes her legendary. Personally I have always thought this lady a woman of substantial erudition to bring to the screen those well thought out portrayals. In as much as Zeenat Aman is transfigured into the Lovemarks constellation "Cosmopolitan" she is still beloved by the cinegoer who scrutinizes her outstanding and timeless cinematic contributions.