Adriana Xenides, who died this week aged 54 of a ruptured intestine, was a breath-takingly beautiful dark haired Argentian-born 17-year-old when her big break into modelling happened by chance. Organisers of the annual Royal Show Wool Parades were in a spin when a top-name invited Italian model, co-incidentally also named Adriana, disgraced herself through over-indulgence, […]
Former Adelaide model and co-founder of Rave Model Agency, still glamorous Chris Nicholls recently turned 60 with a family shebang in Wellington, New Zealand where she was born. Chris and husband Robert Nicholls, former South Australian businessman, now live in Doonan, in Noosa Hinterland, Queensland The milestone birthday has ushered in profound change for the family […]
Their names are Josie, Diana and Kerry and their suburban lives have become rivetting social history in Love, Lust and Lies, a documentary by Gillian Armstrong. The three Adelaide women – Diana Doman, Kerry Carlson and Josie Petersen – all attended the recent packed world premiere of the film held in the Palace Nova […]
An impressive pile of 40 colourful hand-made blankets were donated to Catherine House for Adelaide’s homeless women at Zonta International’s handover dinner for the Adelaide/Flinders club this week. The event at Ayers House attended by 50 women and some men, saw retiring president Carolyn Colquhuon hand the reins of the women’s service club to Jodi […]
By JOAN LADY HARDY I vividly recall when I was eighteen and in a grumpy mood my mother saying to me ”take a look at yourself in the mirror, and remember we all get the face we deserve by the time we turn fifty”. Growing older is a mandatory process, but as someone wisely once […]
No matter how brilliantly actors Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren portrayed the warring Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy and his wife, Sofia, in the film The Last Station, there was a far richer story left untold. Anyone who has read the diaries of Sofia would know that the film failed to capture the depth and devoted […]
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