The Rake

THE GREAT SURVIVOR

The obvious place to start with Anjelica Huston is her name, which finds its genesis in Greek and translates to ‘messenger of God’. This is apt, for she has danced with the devil — several of them, in fact — and won.

At 72, Huston retains the angular magnificence that suggests Morticia Addams once had a fervent three-way with an eagle and one of the heads from Easter Island. She was Polaroid-ed by Warhol, and she once said, “There were times when I hated my nose. But you grow up and you start to recognise that maybe it

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