Tag: who-is-the-rake
Icons June 2019
Elvis Presley: The Breakthrough Moment
G. Bruce Boyer recounts the pivotal moment of The King’s journey to super stardom, when, as a swaggering, confident and deviously handsome 19-year-old, he walked into Sun Records studio…
Icons April 2019
Patrick Swayze: The Miracle Dude
Patrick Swayze combined macho swagger and fluid elegance in a unique way, and his acting style — a kind of artless sincerity — helped turn movies such as Dirty Dancing and Point Break into pop-culture classics. Yet what remains of Swayze’s life and work is more significant still: an unfashionable sense of joy.
Icons October 2018
John F. Kennedy: For One Brief Shining Moment
What might have been? What might have been had John F. Kennedy avoided Dallas in November ’63? Would he have remade the world? For as long as we yearn for the counterfactual, the legend of Camelot endures…
Icons September 2018
George Raft: Hollywood's Forgotten Star
George Raft was better known for making other actors’ careers a success. Yet the fact he had a Hollywood life at all was, in Raft’s eyes, a tale of triumph over circumstance…
Icons September 2017
Gay Talese: Pioneer of New Journalism
The Rake celebrates the free-living, lavish-loving, sterling-wordsmithing, bespoke-tailored life Gay Talese.
Icons March 2016
Bogart and Bacall: Together Again, Kid
She reduced him to tears; he called her his ‘last love’. When Lauren Bacall died in 2014, aged 89, the tributes and obituaries shone a new light on her show-stopping…
Style January 2016
The Bespoke Dude
Fabio Attanasio, the charming pensman and commentator behind Italian style blog The Bespoke Dudes – as elegant a gentleman, in person, as you’d expect – takes us on a heartfelt…
Code November 2015
Wedding Tails: The Proposal
Who says men can’t plan weddings? Well, most people, but that isn’t going to stop Tom Chamberlin. The Rake’s Deputy Editor is getting married, and in the first of a series of blogs…
Icons November 2015
Getting To Know Yul
Famed for his role as King Mongkut of Siam, which he played for over 30 years, it was perhaps inevitable that Yul Brynner also often expected the royal treatment in…
Craft November 2015
Dior Homme: Suit Genealogy
Founded in 2001, the Dior Homme suit atelier calls on the incomparable savoir-faire of Italian craftsmen recognized the world over.
