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Service Club revives glamour of El Morocco
![The Service Club of Chicago celebrated its 121st anniversary with its biggest fundraiser of the year, An Evening of Glamour at Club El Morocco. Ball co-chairwomen Toni Canada, Laurie Davis and Dusty Stemer, brought El Morocco, the legendary Manhattan supper club of days gone by, back to life in the Grand Ballroom of the Four Seasons. The ladies pulled out all stops to bring their visions to life, which were expertly realized by top event designer Tom Kehoe. If you closed your eyes, you could easily envision the rich and famous clientele who frequented "Elmo," like the Vanderbilts, Cary Grant, Clark Gable and Marlene Dietrich, clinking glasses in one of the zebra banquettes. Longtime Service Club member Anida "Cookie" Cohen, told me that she frequented the original El Morocco and that the room on this night was almost an exact replica. Many guests even dressed the part.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-11/66021483-11122154-187105.jpg "The Service Club of Chicago celebrated its 121st anniversary with its biggest fundraiser of the year, An Evening of Glamour at Club El Morocco. Ball co-chairwomen Toni Canada, Laurie Davis and Dusty Stemer, brought El Morocco, the legendary Manhattan supper club of days gone by, back to life in the Grand Ballroom of the Four Seasons. The ladies pulled out all stops to bring their visions to life, which were expertly realized by top event designer Tom Kehoe. If you closed your eyes, you could easily envision the rich and famous clientele who frequented "Elmo,\" like the Vanderbilts, Cary Grant, Clark Gable and Marlene Dietrich, clinking glasses in one of the zebra banquettes. Longtime Service Club member Anida \"Cookie\" Cohen, told me that she frequented the original El Morocco and that the room on this night was almost an exact replica. Many guests even dressed the part.")
Special to Tribune NewspapersThe Service Club of Chicago celebrated its 121st anniversary with its biggest fundraiser of the year, An Evening of Glamour at Club El Morocco. Ball co-chairwomen Toni Canada, Laurie Davis and Dusty Stemer, brought El Morocco, the legendary Manhattan...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Cole Porter, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Morocco
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Wearing the pantsuit again
Sometime between Melanie Griffith as "Working Girl" and Hillary Clinton as presidential contender, the pantsuit retired from the ranks of high fashion, as well as from most women's closets. Make room for its resurgence. Pantsuits commanded designer...
Tags: Halston, Madonna, J. Mendel, Alexander McQueen, Balmain
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A grand weekend for jazz singing
This weekend could be one for the record books, with an extraordinary confluence of major vocalists converging on our stages. Though they span a wide stylistic swath – from blues to jazz to classic pop and beyond – the level of singing...
Tags: Music, Genres, Howard Reich, Grammy Awards, Dominican University
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The story of the Oscars
While it's true that there's only so much anyone can say about the Oscars, remember it can be said again and again. As a reader (and writer), I know by now that there are 10 abiding Oscar stories. Here they are, all in a single article: The history...Tags: John Ford, Groucho Marx, Museum of Modern Art, Jerry Lewis, Alan Arkin
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How Oscars' fashion show changed through the decades
Los Angeles Times Fashion CriticThe Academy Awards are the biggest fashion runway on the planet. When Jennifer Lawrence, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried and other stars step out onto the red carpet Sunday, they will be primed to talk as much about what and who they are wearing as about...Tags: Givenchy, Luise Rainer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange
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Lingerie: Legacy in lace
The image is one of the most provocative in cinematic history: Elizabeth Taylor stretched catlike on a brass bed wearing nothing but a white slip and high heels. Taylor's wardrobe for the 1958 classic "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" might have been scandalous...
Tags: Entertainment, Marilyn Monroe, Mae West, Grace Kelly, Entertainment Events
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Fall fashion: Tough love
Los Angeles Times Fashion CriticForget the Gossip Girls, Joan Holloway, Bettie Page and those other retro chicks. There is a new feminine ideal this fall, and she kicks butt. If the last five years have been dominated by the preening and pristine women of "Mad Men," we are now...Tags: Givenchy, The Dark Knight Rises (movie), Snow White and the Huntsman (movie), Fashion Shows, Anne Hathaway
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Chicago was a regular stop for Hollywood legends
Chicago used to be a must-stop for Hollywood's top talent and New York's glittering stars. If for no other reason than to change trains.
The Superman movie is a wrap. Laurence Fishburne and Amy Adams have gone home. And while "The Playboy Club" is...Tags: Elvis Presley, Superman (fictional character), Judy Garland, Rudolph Valentino, Amy Adams
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West Hollywood hotel: Charlie Chaplin Tramp stayed here
Special to the Los Angeles TimesEntering the Charlie Chaplin cottage, I stooped to avoid hitting my head. At 5 feet 8, I'm about 3 inches taller than Chaplin. (It's said the Little Tramp had the door made small so his guests would have to bow as they entered.) I was at the Charlie,...Tags: Property, Lifestyle and Leisure, Hotels and Accommodations, Travel, Children
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Oscar presenter Marlene Dietrich
FrameworkActress Marlene Dietrich, left, with Dr. Mario Ungara, Italian Consul, who was delegated to accept the Best Foreign Language award for "The Walls of Malapaga" at the 1951 Academy Awards.... -
Romantic getaways
![<strong>Berlin:</strong> Put Berlin next to Paris and you have both sides of the coin: romance, which occasionally appeals, and eros, which never fails. "Berlin is sexy," said the German capital's openly gay Mayor Klaus Wowereit, and it's been that way since the iniquitous Weimar Republic of Marlene Dietrich and cabaret, when only <em>verboten</em> was a naughty word. Recent influxes of German hipsters and clued-in foreigners are (as the song says) "Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)" with Berlin's outré art scene, drinking in all-night bars where mind-numbing absinthe is the poison of choice, and dressing in provocative Weimar styles for Bohème Sauvage, an on-going series of nightclub parties with dancing to hot jazz, backroom poker and floor shows featuring scantily clad performers of undetermined sex.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-02/67841300-06094025.jpg "<strong>Berlin:</strong> Put Berlin next to Paris and you have both sides of the coin: romance, which occasionally appeals, and eros, which never fails. "Berlin is sexy,\" said the German capital's openly gay Mayor Klaus Wowereit, and it's been that way since the iniquitous Weimar Republic of Marlene Dietrich and cabaret, when only <em>verboten</em> was a naughty word. Recent influxes of German hipsters and clued-in foreigners are (as the song says) \"Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)\" with Berlin's outré art scene, drinking in all-night bars where mind-numbing absinthe is the poison of choice, and dressing in provocative Weimar styles for Bohème Sauvage, an on-going series of nightclub parties with dancing to hot jazz, backroom poker and floor shows featuring scantily clad performers of undetermined sex.")
Berlin: Put Berlin next to Paris and you have both sides of the coin: romance, which occasionally appeals, and eros, which never fails. "Berlin is sexy," said the German capital's openly gay Mayor Klaus Wowereit, and it's been that way since the...Tags: Music, Cape Town (South Africa), Bars and Clubs, Berlin (Germany), Hotels and Accommodations
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Stephen Colbert grills Lawrence Wright with Scientology-speak
Lawrence Wright, the author of "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief" appeared on "The Colbert Report" Thursday night to talk about his book. But before he could get there, Stephen Colbert bgean grilling the Pulitzer Prize...
Tags: Bob Hope, Stephen Colbert, Religion and Belief, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Google+
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