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...year to the new Paris (the Vegas hotel) from the old Paris (the French city) is an ambitious Les Miz-style opera that retells--drearily--the famed Hunchback tale. Even the town's hottest headliner, musical impressionist Danny Gans, devotes less time to the usual Vegas icons (Sinatra, Tony Bennett) than to relatively obscure (to the high rollers in the crowd, anyway) rock-era performers like Boz Scaggs and Aaron Neville...
...Bruce Bennett, who published Haviaras's prose poem collection for the Wells College Press, said that though he is a diligent curator, Haviaras is primarily an outstanding writer...
...These poems are very distinct from other prose poems," Bennett says. "I think these are extraordinarily wide-ranging and suggestive, and fascinating and effective as poems...
Haviaras's tenure also brought poetry readings--which had been suspended since World War II--back to the poetry room. He personally raised an endowment of over $100,000 that allows for writers like Bennett, Donald Hall and Seamus Heaney to visit for lectures...
...Imagine - John Lennon 2. Yesterday - Beatles 3. It's a Good Life - Tony Bennett 4. Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin 5. La Vie en rose - Edith Piaf 6. Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson 7. A Little Help From My Friends - Joe Cocker 8. Respect - Aretha Franklin 9. Nessun Dorma - Luciano Pavarotti 10. New York, New York - Liza Minnelli