Annie Leibovitz photographs the 1 percent, the rich, beautiful and famous, conspiring with the apparatus of celebrity and capitalism to make the lives of successful people feel even more glamorous and alluring. The Library of Congress has officially declared her a “Living Legend,” and despite a few financial problems awhile back — a massive home-renovation project in Greenwich Village contributed to the setback — she has joined the same rarefied ranks of privilege that she has so diligently served throughout her career. Read full article > >

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Annie Leibovitz’s personal ‘Pilgrimage’ feels commercial

If you’ve ever looked down your nose at country music, it might be because so many artists seem to suffer some form of multiple-personality disorder. To wit: Dierks Bentley’s new album, “ Home ,” finds him cast as lover man, party bro, proud patriot, dedicated dad. Throughout his career, he has gone from bar-crawling lothario to devoted husband from one song to the next. Read full article > >

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Dierks Bentley makes the most of his roles on ‘Home’

Paintings by Winston Churchill have gone on display alongside works by the now-famous Moroccan artist, Hassan El Glaoui, who owes his career to Churchill.

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Pablo Picasso’s talent was so protean and absorptive, one could tell any number of stories with his drawings. But by focusing on a diverse selection of some of the finest works the artist made on paper during the first three decades of his career, the National Gallery of Art ’s new show, “Picasso’s Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition,” becomes a clear and concise synopsis of his early career. Read full article > >

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‘Picasso’s Drawings’ exhibit reveals the amazing early career of the artist

Advisers to Mitt Romney, stung by attacks from Republican rivals on his career as a corporate buyout specialist, are scrambling to avoid a prolonged battle.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Oh, the stories Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney could tell you from their early days together in Music City. And they’re about to make more, joining forces on an ambitious stadiums-only tour next summer. Chesney and McGraw got to know each other living in the same apartment complex 20 years ago, cemented their friendship opening for George Strait, and joined forces in 2001 when McGraw invited Chesney on the road at a pivotal moment in his career. They’re teaming again from the pinnacle of country music. Read full article > >

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Old buddies Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw team up for ambitious super tour of stadiums

1Hoover was a gay cross-dresser. Despite rampant speculation — that Hoover was gay, a cross-dresser or had no sex life — the truth about his sex life is nearly impossible to pin down. Hoover was married to his job and zealously protective of his public image. He lived in an era when being outed as gay would cost anyone his career and reputation, and he was not one to risk such consequences. Read full article > >

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Five myths about J. Edgar Hoover

She was a trust fund kid who moved to Paris in 1903 and made some very successful bets early in her career as an art collector and wannabe writer. Gertrude Stein, whose family prospered in the San Francisco real estate market and streetcar business late in the 19th century, used her money to buy paintings by Matisse and Picasso long before they became world-famous. She latched onto artists, celebrated their work, associated her name with them and, especially in the case of Picasso, used them to establish her own reputation as an astute connoisseur and observer of modern art. Read full article > >

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Gertrude Stein in full form at Portrait Gallery

BBC News take a look back at the key moments in the week that proved fatal to his career in front line politics.

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BBC News take a look back at the key moments in the week that proved fatal to his career in front line politics.

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When Fashion Designer Betsey Johnson was diagnosed with breast cancer she refused to tell anyone other than her daughter Lulu. She was convinced that the news would destroy her career. Now, twelve years later, Johnson proudly tells anyone who will listen. During October’s Breast Cancer Awareness month, she’s holding in-store parties and selling breast cancer awareness products like “I’m a Survivor” T-shirts, silver-and-hot-pink tote bags, hot-pink panties and “We can do it” socks. Read full article > >

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Breast cancer awareness: Betsey Johnson advocates with fashion

Updated: Andy Rooney will announce on Sunday’s “60 Minutes” that it will be his last regular appearance on the newsmagazine. Rooney, 92, has been featured on the program since 1978. Sunday’s appearance will be Rooney’s 1097th original essay for “60 Minutes,” and will be preceded by a segment in which Rooney looks back on his career in an interview with Morley Safer, CBS News said. Read full article > >

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Tania Dunbar celebrated a first in her 13-year Army career Sunday: She donned her uniform and proudly introduced Deborah Graham as her wife, not the “cousin” who had previously joined her around Fort Stewart in Georgia. The formal end Tuesday of the military’s 18-year “don’t ask, don’t tell” ban on service members revealing their homosexuality has allowed the couple to share the news that they married in the District in May. Read full article > >

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For some time, Michael Kahn has wrestled with the script of a rarely performed drama by a playwright so revered that, over his career, he was rewarded with four Pulitzer Prizes. But it’s not an interpretive issue with which Kahn is struggling as much as a practical one. At a length of more than five hours and filled with rambling soliloquies, Eugene O’Neill’s 1928 psychological study, “Strange Interlude,” is considered by many to be virtually unplayable. Read full article > >

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The fight over retrofitting classics for modern tastes

Seventh in a series. It is an early morning in July, and Don Brennan, a Pentagon police officer, sits in the cafeteria of the fortress where he has worked for 22 years, eating his usual egg-and-bacon sandwich, explaining the most unreservedly proud moment of his career: Sept. 11, 2002. “Ted Koppel actually said my name,” Brennan is saying, recounting his interview on the TV news show “Nightline,” which aired that day, and which he has replayed on his VCR every Sept. 11 since. “He said, ‘Officer Don Brennan will be the first voice you hear.’ They said 3 million people will be watching. They said, ‘Don’t look at the red light.’ And I said, ‘I know enough from Burbank’ ” — where he once worked as a security guard for “Wheel of Fortune” – “ ‘not to look at the red light.’ So, not to pat myself on the back, but it came across real good.” Read full article > >

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Since 9/11, Pentagon police officer unable to forget hurt man he tried to help