Keira Knightley

Inilah Pertaruhan dalam Permainan DominoQQ

Ini yaitu berjenis-jenis pertanda permainan domino sesuai untuk perjudian Anda. Jika Anda ingin bertaruh uang Anda sendiri dan menempatkan keterampilan gameplaying Anda untuk tes ...

The Business of Having Fun

To London for a brief visit to meet Spectator readers, as nice a reason as I can think for getting on an airplane, except for an assignation with Rebecca Hall, my latest obsession ...

Erich Maria Remarque

The Pacifist and the Warmonger

I used to see him in El Morocco, the most famous nightclub of its era during the late 1950s and early 60s. He was a very handsome man, beautifully tailored and with impeccable ...

The Grapes of Hate

Stop the presses. Call out the National Guard. Order in the tanks. The Simon Wiesenthal Center is mad and is not going to take it anymore. Especially from Vini Lunardelli, the ...

Odysseus im Kampf mit dem Bettler by Lovis Corinth

What History Does to Heroes

Just before I left for the Greek islands I went to dinner at Eugenie Radziwill’s, whose other guests included the great Barry Humphries, his wife Lizzie, and a man I had never ...

Taki and the Weatherbird crew with fish

Yellow Journalism and Blue Seas

ONBOARD THE WEATHERBIRD OFF THE PELOPONNESE—The old girl groans and creaks as we tack time and again, the breeze right on the nose as we negotiate the turquoise coastline. ...

Weatherbird

On the Wings of a Weatherbird

PORTO HELI—I am standing on the deck of a 100-foot schooner that was built in Normandy in 1931 by Gerald and Sara Murphy, the golden American couple who invented the south of ...

Roger Federer

The Champion and the Chump

GSTAAD—This is a tale of two men. One possesses youth, talent, fame, and even beauty; the other none of the above except arrogance, physical repulsiveness, and a sexual ...

See You at the Dojo

THUN, SWITZERLAND—”Mokuso!” All 200 of us who are already on our knees and sitting on our heels in the Japanese “seiza” position remain dead silent at ...

Paxos, Greece

Black Belts and Golden Dawn

I am about to leave for karate camp in Thun, Switzerland: four days of double sessions lasting one hour and forty-five minutes each, with three hundred black belts from all over ...

Alexandria, Egypt circa 1950

The Lost Charm of Egypt

I remember it well. It was July 1952, and I was dining with my parents at the Palm Beach Casino’s patio in Cannes when my father got up and went inside to gamble. He came back ...

God’s in His Heaven, But All’s Wrong With the World

The long lazy summer is upon us, and as I walk the Swiss hills below the mountain ranges my thoughts are always of the past. I think of long hot summers of long ago: girls in ...

Painting London Red

What was that quote about London and being tired of life? Or that flickering ecstasy of a long-ago memory of being drunk at dawn and watching people going to work? Surely not at ...

This Rather Strange Alliance

When a draft-dodging con man such as Bill Clinton begins to sound like General George Patton, most intelligent people realize that the fix is in. Clinton recently remonstrated ...

Taki and John-Taki Theodoracopulos

Drinking, Sailing, and Sleeping it Off

SAINT-TROPEZ—To the once-upon-a-time sleepy fishing village, now the focal point for Russian oligarch excess, outrageously ugly super-yachts, and what is commonly known as the ...

Triumph of the Hysterical

“Sexist Mores of Super-Rich Hurt Us All,” sobs an American female columnist in The Holocaust Update, AKA The New York Times. I don’t usually follow this kind of drivel—the ...


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