The Robespierre of Lafayette Street
The director who first staged The Normal Heart remembers the many-sided activist-playwright Larry Kramer
Siegfried Meir
Taken to Auschwitz at eight, he turned his awful experience into a source of inspiration for others
Natale Rusconi
A master at tending to V.I.P.’s from Princess Margaret to Maria Callas, he transformed the Hotel Cipriani into one of the jet set’s premier destinations
Miranda, Countess of Stockton
When she married Peter Sellers, at 23, her two Pekingese dogs (Tabitha and Tomasina) served as bridesmaids