ROMAN HOLIDAY 

 8 June 1960   

 

 

When in Paris the third sunday of the month is Culture day, I take the whole gang to Le Louvre,Europe's largest museum,free admission 1-5 pm .Ferruccio parks aux Tuileries,then we walk,Consuelo,Bruna,Ferruccio take turn babysitting Dixie and Pixie.La Victoire de Samothrace is my destination,Sabrina sings and dances her way to the most famous sculpture in the world,I love her version of Edith Piaf's La Vie en Rose !

 Edith Head's black gown  was for me,ordered one from Biki,Alain Reynaud created a dozen versions year after year,

 I first met Ari at the Lido Ball in Venice,that night I wore the 1957 one.

 Audrey is a natural,and she smiles and what a smile ! In 1953 Roman Holiday changed my destiny,the movie behind my weight loss,I watched it once,twice,the third time in the darkness of the theatre I made my mind to become the Audrey Hepburn of the stage,had a poster in every room,first thing in the morning,last thing at night I looked at it, saw myself as Audrey Hepburn.Talk about things psychic and visualization, it works.

 

I love Audrey,my favorite is" Breakfast at Tiffany's",read somewhere that Truman Capote wrote the script for Marilyn Monroe who turned it down  

--- Don't want to be another call girl,not again 

 What a loss,Audrey was fabulous,Marilyn would have been as fabulous but different

During her lifetime she was mocked as a brainless blonde,after her death was voted by the Academy as the 7th greatest comedienne of all times.

I have a bond with Marilyn ,we are victimized beyond human endurance by the press.After my death they will give me the credit, the greatest in the history of music,that is what I am.