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'Jacques Brel' brings the Paris lifestyle and music to USU
Twice a night for seven nights, Utah State Theatre is inviting the audience out of their seats and onto the stage to join with their large-cast ensemble for an evening of music, dance and entertainment.
The Statesman | Thursday Feb 24
On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
Barbra Streisand and Yves Montand take over for Barbara Harris and John Cullum in the screen adaptation of the modest mid-Sixties stage hit On A Clear Day You Can See Forever.
Dvdverdict.com | Tuesday Feb 22
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KRNU Top 10
This 18-song singles compilation spans the 15-year career of one of the greatest U.K. dance-pop groups.
Daily Nebraskan | Thursday Feb 3
Extreme exploration
Research is under way at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on a Bio-Suit System that incorporates a suit designed to augment a person's biological skin by providing mechanical counter-pressure. ...
CNN | Jan 26, 2005
French singers unite to raise money for Asian tsunami relief
More than 60 French singers including rocker Johnny Hallyday and crooner Charles Aznavour have recorded a new single to raise money for the Asian tsunami relief effort, recording label Sony-BMG announced.
Yahoo (AFP) | Jan 17, 2005
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This week on triple j we're celebrating the music of The Dears. The band are the musical incarnation of Murray A Lightburn, son of a jazz musician turned preacher, who grew up a black Jew in Canada with a love ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation | Dec 30, 2004
Serge Gainsbourg for your pleasure
France is a country that loves its cultural icons and national heroes, even when they're lecherous, foul-mouthed boors like Serge Gainsbourg -- or, especially when they're lecherous, foul-mouthed boors like ...
Taipei Times | Dec 3, 2004
The Call of the Weill
Listener contributions are our largest source of funding. Critics have called singer Ute Lemper a 'world-weary femme fatale' and a 'modern-day Dietrich.' Those descriptions are not underserved, as she has ...
WNYC New York | Dec 2, 2004
Marlene Dietrich jewels, royal pieces to top auction
Sotheby's has timed its Magnificent Jewels auction with the gift-giving season in mind.
Palm Beach Daily News | Nov 27, 2004
Life's a Cabaret
Jacques Brel really is alive in this splendid Theatre Cafe revival. These are brilliant songs.
Denver Westword | Nov 25, 2004
The 6 Objectively Best Songs In The World Ever Ever, #3
It's getting unbearable tight, as we move into the Top 3. Beating Little Walter, Feline and Rogers & Hammerstein is going to take quite a song.
The London News Review | Nov 23, 2004
Sasha Frere-Jones on Keren Ann
In November, EMI Music held a listening party in Paris to celebrate the French release of Nolita, the new album by the Israeli-Dutch singer and songwriter Keren Ann, who is thirty.
New Yorker | Nov 23, 2004
The Garden of Allah (MGM)
Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone, C. Albrey Smith, Tilly Losch, Joseph Schildkralt.
Boxoffice | Nov 3, 2004
On The Record: Texas, L'il Darlin' and "Brel Infinement"
This week's column discusses Johnny Mercer's 1949 musical Texas, L'il Darlin' and the Jacques Brel collection, "Brel Infinement." Texas, L'il Darlin' was an amiable little musical comedy that opened somewhere ...
Playbill | Nov 2, 2004
Platters
Keren Ann, a French citizen of baffling multinational extraction, sings in breathy, flattened tones that mark her as part of a lineage of boho cool extending from Chet Baker to Belle & Sebastian: the gnomic ...
Metropulse.com | Oct 21, 2004
25 Gayest Moments in Rock & Roll
In 1973, Elektra Records subtly announced the eponymous debut album by America s first openly gay rock star by unveiling a 42-foot Times Square billboard of the self-styled true fairy Jobriath as a naked ...
Blender | Oct 20, 2004
Aznavour Songs Fill New Musical Happy Anniversary!, Getting NYC Reading With Schaffel and Cuccioli
Ed Dixon, the actor-writer-composer not afraid to juggle multiple projects, has conceived a new four-person musical, Happy Anniversary!, drawing on the music of Charles Aznavour.
Playbill | Oct 30, 2004
2003 SL500 Sport
Should you believe the hype? Mercedes vp of marketing Dave Schembri said the new SL500 handles better than most high-performance sports cars.
AutoWeek | Oct 11, 2004
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Spencer Tracy presides over the 1948 tribunal. Richard Widmark is the prosecutor, Marlene Dietrich the widow of a German general, Judy Garland a German woman who had had a relationship with a Jewish man and ...
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | Sep 18, 2004
Joint Concert As Contribution To Armenian Sports Development
Joint concert of Armenian pop singer Nune Yesayan and Fench singer Patrick Fiori is to take place coming Sunday in Yerevan.
A1plus.am | Sep 13, 2004
Debutantes make their entrance into society
We can almost hear French entertainer Maurice Chevalier singing that tune, skimmer hat in hand.
The Daily News Journal | Aug 15, 2004
Soundstage
Cyndi Lauper, the punky New York princess who just wanted to have fun in the 80's, has matured into a woman who can add an organic honesty to classic standards, as featured on this Soundstage and in her most ...
WBIQ Birmingham | Aug 12, 2004
Gwyneth will produce Dietrich movie
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow will produce and possibly star in a DreamWorks movie about film legend Marlene Dietrich.
Thecelebritycafe.com | Jul 22, 2004
French singer Sacha Distel dies
He went on to become a household name across the world during a career which peaked with his cover version of Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head.
BBC | Jul 22, 2004
Salvador Awarded France's Legion of Honor
President Jacques Chirac bestowed France's prestigious Legion of Honor award to singer Henri Salvador and composer Henri Dutilleux at a ceremony Friday in Paris.
ABC News | Jun 26, 2004
Aznavour's dark, soulful eyes
Melbourne writer Carole Browne remembers a charmed moment with Charles Aznavour.
Theage.com.au | May 28, 2004
Book claims Yves Montand had secret affair with his stepdaughter
One of the greatest stars of the French cinema, the late Yves Montand, had a secret affair with overtones of incest for many years with his stepdaughter, Catherine Allgret, according to ...
News.independent.co.uk | May 7, 2004
Speak of the Devil
Today on Soundcheck, Stephen Coates, the British cabaret singer and DJ who records under the name The Real Tuesday Weld.
Wnyc.org | May 5, 2004
Mean Girls
To paraphrase a Maurice Chevalier show tune, Mean Girls makes you glad you're not young anymore.
Kgw.com | Apr 30, 2004
Addica to be repped by Endeavor
Oscar-nominated scribe Milo Addica, who is set to make his directorial debut with an untitled feature based on the best seller "The French Hustler," has signed with Endeavor for ...
Hollywoodreporter.com | Apr 19, 2004
Les Sans Culottes
The love-child of Serge Gainsbourg and Combustible Edison, Les Sans Culottes delivers a cheeky homage to '60s-era French pop replete with clever lyrics, ridiculous aliases and spot-on ...
Entertainment.signonsandiego.com | Mar 29, 2004
Hollywood screen beauty Frances Dee dies
Frances Dee, the lovely actress who costarred in the 1930s and 1940s with Maurice Chevalier, Gary Cooper, Ronald Colman and her husband, Joel McCrea, has died.
Dailybreeze.com | Mar 8, 2004
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Around Town
Where: Foundry Art Centre, 520 North Main Center, St. Charles. Performers: Elsie Parker and the Poor People of Paris.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Thursday Feb 17
Kamasutra cocktail at Azure
Anyone with a corkscrew and a Serge Gainsbourg record can turn Champagne and strawberries into a classic love potion, but Azure's cocktail specialists take the idea several steps further with their libidinously ...
The Boston Globe | Thursday Feb 17
Power Serge
Attention tragically hip: turn off the Interpol and listen up. Your latest iPod soundtrack has arrived, and it blends your two favorite things-indie rock and retro cool.
New York Magazine | Tuesday Feb 15
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Mike Brant:Laisse-Moi T'Aimer
Produced by Dalia Migdal, Fabienne Servan Schreiber, Boaz Peiper, Erez Laufer.
Variety via KeepMedia.com | Jun 22, 2003
French singer Florent Pagny in court for alleged tax evasion
One of France's most popular pop singers, Florent Pagny, is to appear in court Monday on tax evasion charges alongside the head of Universal Music ...
AFP via KeepMedia.com | Nov 23, 2003
Falling in Love Again
There was no mistaking the image awaiting me in the Mediterranean hotel that day in 1965.
U.S.News & World Report via KeepMedia.com | May 18, 1992
Starr Turn for Canal Plus
Canal Plus is hoping Gallic rapper Joey Starr and mainstream crooner Francis Lalanne will bring "Osbournes"-style oomph to its ratings.
Variety via KeepMedia.com | Jan 12, 2003
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