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you want without all the hassles of working with big publishers. “And they print as ordered. No warehouses filled with printed copies waiting to sell.” The book can be ordered through Amazon.com.
Big Winner J.D. Roth may be co-creator of the hit NBC TV series The Biggest Loser, but I hear the 48-year-old actor and producer has just splashed out $7 million on a Montecito estate, having put a smaller one-acre retreat up for sale for $3.95 million. The new 7,400-sq.-ft. shingle-style home boasts five bedrooms and seven and a half baths, including a guest house and a poolside cabana. The property has exposed beams and paneling. Roth runs 3Ball Productions. He is currently the producer of Spike TV’s Bar Rescue. Give and Takei Veteran Star Trek actor George Takei beamed himself up from his L.A. home to Santa Barbara when he spoke at the Arlington, part of the UCSB Arts and Lectures series. Takei, 79, whose talk was titled “Where No Story Has Gone Before”, played Hikaru Sulu, helmsman on the spaceship USS Enterprise in the popular 1960s series, which still has successful spinoffs today. He is now considered a new face on social media, with his Facebook page garnering more than 10 million likes since he joined in 2011. He is a strong proponent of LBGT rights, as well as being vocal about state and local politics. Takei, one of the few remaining members of the original cast, including William Shatner, met Producers Circle members at a reception at the Orfalea Foundation Center prior to his sold-out talk, including Lynda Weinman, Bruce Heavin, Leslie Bhutani, Robert Weinman, Allen and Anne Sides, Carla Hahn, and Eric and Cynthia Spivey. Just 24 hours earlier, the Arlington was packed for another UCSB Arts & Lectures event: Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox, an ensemble reimagining contemporary pop, rock,
The inaugural Alaska trip on the cruise line’s ship, Eurodam, will embark from Seattle on July 15 and visit ports in Juneau, Sitka, and Ketchikan. The itinerary also includes a day of scenic cruising through Glacier Bay National Park and a stop in Victoria, British Columbia. Oprah, 63, who is currently wrapping up filming in New Zealand with actress Reese Witherspoon of the children’s blockbuster A Wrinkle In Time, will be onboard for part of the trip.
Carla Hahn, A&L Producers Circle member, and friend Kumsu Kim with George Takei (photo by Grace Kathryn)
Lynda Weinman and Bruce Heavin with George Takei (photo by Grace Kathryn)
and R & B hits in the style of various yesteryears, from swing to doo-wop, ragtime to Motown – or, as pianist and arranger Bradlee puts it, “pop music in a time machine.” And we didn’t even need a quarter. Bon Voyage Former TV talk-show titan Oprah Winfrey will take a cruise this summer in a place she’s never been before: Alaska. The trip launches a partnership between the Hearst glossy, O, The Oprah Magazine, and the Holland America Line. The collaboration will include programming for 300 Holland America cruises developed in collaboration with O magazine.
Onboard activities designed to “bring the magazine to life” will include meditation, tai chi, healthy cooking demonstrations, a book club, and more. The cruises will take place this year and next year in North America and the Caribbean. Four trips will feature appearances of the SuperSoul 100, a group of entrepreneurs, authors, artists, and others deemed inspirational by Montecito’s most famous resident.
Sharon and Share Alike It may not be the richly endowed Costume Design Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum, whose legendary galas, which I used attend, were run by the oh-so tony twosome of the late Pat Buckley and Nan Kempner, and are now helmed by the imperious Vogue editrix, Anna Wintour, who I used to work with at New York Magazine in the early ‘80s. But Sharon Bradford’s new Costume Council at the Santa Barbara Museum of History will give it a good run for its money after its inaugural reception, featuring 15 gowns, including an enchanting pink satin Elizabeth Arden 1950s number made for Lotusland founder, opera singer Ganna Walska, and another for artist Georgia O’Keeffe by French fashion house Worth, founded by English couturier Charles Frederick Worth. “The museum has a very large costume collection in the vault, which is around 15,000 square feet, and I thought they should be displayed rather than hidden away,” says Sharon. “They are fascinating and have wonderful histories, but we need to raise funds for conservation and exhibition.” A year ago, the museum staged an exhibition homage to Beverley Jackson, which featured a number of outfits from Christian Dior, Yves St.Laurent, Jean Patou, Halston, and the late Luis Estevez, who lived in our rarefied enclave, and next year a
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Sharon Bradford, SBHM president; telling the story of the wedding dress worn by Anita De la Guerra to Alfred Robinson, with readings by George Schoellkopf, Gerald Incandela, and Eleanor Van Cott, SBHN trustee (photo by Priscilla)
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