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	<title>An Open Book &#187; Muses</title>
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		<title>Mariage Blanc</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks Peters</dc:creator>
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NOTE: My article on Syrie Maugham and Selina Hastings&#8217; new biography of Somerset Maugham has been published on the Huffington Post. HERE. So I am reposting this slightly longer version of the story, complete with photo illustrations, as a complement to that piece. Enjoy!
Maugham&#8217;s the Word


Less known than her storied husband, author W. Somerset Maugham, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tragic Muse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks Peters</dc:creator>
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Every now and then, when I least expect it, I will stumble across a name that for some reason begins to pop up repeatedly, almost uncannily, in the books I&#8217;m reading at that moment. Very often it&#8217;s a name I am unfamiliar with up until then. Then suddenly there&#8217;s no escaping it! Such an occurrence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Model Ford</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks Peters</dc:creator>
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I don&#8217;t normally like to post knee-jerk reactions to the news of celebrity deaths. There are far too many graveyards in the blogosphere where eager hearse chasers leave bunches of thorny roses in honor of recently deceased stars for me to compete with. But every now and then a figure passes away who touched my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Panoply of Penelopes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks Peters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s in a name? Plenty, apparently, if it happens to be Penelope.

It may seem silly to judge a person by her first name, but if the appellation is Penelope one has good reason to pay attention. Especially if she&#8217;s written a book. Be sure to crack it open and start reading with passion and pleasure. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twin Peaks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks Peters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lost amid the rapturous attention paid to the deaths of Bea Arthur and Marilyn Cooper recently was an obituary in the New York Times for another feminine role model: Catherine di Montezemolo, doyenne of fashion and society. Sister of Jeanne Murray Vanderbilt, Catherine was perhaps less known outside her own circle, but she left an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fabulous Draper Girls</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks Peters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These days with everyone and his grandmother holding up the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Meryl Streep and Martha Stewart as the great arbiters of literature, acting and design, respectively, it pays to hark back to another time when three unusual ladies, all named Draper, also excelled in these fields. Muriel, Ruth and Dorothy Draper defined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleeping Beauty: Sunny von Bulow</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks Peters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Sunny von Bulow, whose obituary appeared in the New York Times yesterday, is finally laid to rest, the circumstances surrounding her infamous case will not be. Her sad story will fascinate us for many years to come. Back in 1990, I was asked by Heather Cohane at Quest magazine to write a piece about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lucky Star: Dina Merrill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks Peters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Recently I read in the Wall Street Journal that some critics had questioned the wisdom of Dina Merrill&#8217;s sitting on the board of directors of Lehman Bros. The implication was that an actress and socialite didn&#8217;t have the financial know-how or boardroom expertise to pass judgment on decisions made by the company&#8217;s executives and that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adios &#8212; Yma Sumac</title>
		<link>http://www.brookspeters.com/2008/11/adios-yma-sumac/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks Peters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is only one word that can express our loss &#8212; WOW.

Click on this link below for one of the best videos on YouTube of the late Peruvian goddess:
YMA SUMAC

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		<title>Cornelia &amp; Ilka</title>
		<link>http://www.brookspeters.com/2008/08/cameo-queens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks Peters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
There&#8217;s an old joke in certain theatre circles about how easy it is to confuse Chita Rivera with Rita Moreno and vice versa. Well, I feel the same way about Cornelia Otis Skinner and Ilka Chase. Both were witty and popular authors who occasionally acted in films. Both were the daughters of famous people. [...]]]></description>
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