• It's an old tradition that a bride should have something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue on her wedding day, and the Duchess of Sussex followed at least part of that when she married Prince Harry. The former Meghan Markle has revealed in a television documentary that she had a piece of blue fabric from the dress she wore on her first date with Harry sewn into her wedding dress. She made the comments while discussing the dress in a documentary about Queen Elizabeth II called Queen of the World. She didn't say whether she also embraced the rest of the tradition. The clip was made public Sunday. The documentary will be broadcast at a later date. It deals with the queen's role as head of the Commonwealth. The duchess described her May 19 wedding on the grounds of Windsor Castle as a "magical day."
• The Detroit museum that hosted Aretha Franklin's public visitations after her death is again holding space for her -- this time with an exhibit featuring photographs, videos and the red shoes she wore at the first funeral viewing that drew global attention. Billed as a "tribute to the Queen of Soul," "THINK" opens to the public Tuesday at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and runs until Jan. 21, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The show is a prelude of what the museum envisions is a larger, long-term exhibit that would debut late next year or in early 2020. And both could be a proving ground for a permanent museum honoring Franklin and her family. "My aunt used to always talk about having a Franklin family museum," said Franklin's niece, Sabrina Owens. "That's not on the immediate horizon, but I thought this would be a good start to it." The first show aims to capture and celebrate Franklin's life in an intimate space that's designed to change and offer surprises over time -- much like its subject did. "This mirrors the way she was -- keep on adding things to a collection, giving people something different to look forward to -- just goes along with who she was as a person," Owens said. "She just always wanted to change, keep herself relevant." In addition to the candy-apple red shoes, the exhibit includes a replica of the matching red dress she wore at the visitation. It also features video from various performances and appearances. Visitors are greeted by a large video monitor with three clips playing on a loop, including her scene-stealing turn singing "Think" in the film The Blues Brothers. The images and artifacts span her life -- among them a photo of her birth home in Memphis, a framed copy of the first record she cut in her longtime home of Detroit and a close-up shot of her singing "My Country 'Tis of Thee" at President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration. It also includes images captured by The Associated Press during her visitations, funeral and interment.
A Section on 09/24/2018