Word: aznavour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wondrous artist, this Stephen Wade, who spills the heart's blood of passion and truth in the tradition of Charles Aznavour, Nana Mouskouri, Django Reinhardt and Woody Guthrie. He may have surfaced in Chicago, but his potential fame defies augury...
Singer Charles Aznavour sawed ample Actress Raquel Welch in half; Kootchy-Kootchy Girl Charo cavorted with trained sea lions. The occasion: a French-American amateur-circus gala in Santa Monica, Calif., held to raise money for a pair of show business charities. During rehearsals, the big top's top attraction promised to be Actress Valerie Perrine riding a 2½-ton elephant named Misty. As Perrine and pachyderm practiced, Misty got rambunctious and almost turned the startled actress into a barefront rider. No matter. "I adore Misty; I wish I could buy an elephant," gushed Valerie. "Just one more...
JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS (1,447). Without being present, Brel dominates this show. His music and personality are in the tradition of Piaf, Aznavour and Sinatra. His songs reach your ear, but his life reaches your heart. The quartet of performers invariably seem to be inspired by Brel, and some people have seen this show more than 30 times. A crystalline and incandescent evening...
Across the Atlantic last week, several parents who also happen to be famous entertainers proudly posed their offspring for photographers. In a Paris church, an Armenian prelate baptized a reluctant Katia, the daughter of Singer Charles Aznavour and his wife, Ulla. At a maternity ward in North Wales, Actress Gayle Hunnicutt introduced her newly born and yet unnamed son to her husband, British Actor David Hemmings. And near London, where she opened at $84 a week in a nonsinging part in the Henry James play, The High Bid, Eartha Kitt took time off from her new role to play with...
Several runners are followed from the moment they decide to compete in the marathon. Among them: an American (Ryan O'Neal) who concludes that Methedrine (also known as Speed) is the breakfast of champions; a retired Czech (Charles Aznavour) whose government compels him to give the West his back, just one more time; an aboriginal Australian (Athol Compton), goaded by two promoters; a Briton (Michael Crawford), protege of a former champion (Stanley Baker) who cannot forget the onliness of the long-distance runner. Among the coach's Segalese utterances: "We'll run through pain...