Word: diva
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...gather to read the papers and suck down potent glasses of ca phe sua da - espresso served over ice and sweetened with condensed milk - while listening to music coming out of antiquated speakers (it might be by the Ronettes, the Rolling Stones or Khan Ly, Vietnam's most celebrated diva and a Café Tung regular in the 1960s). "I'm keeping it this way because it has worked for nearly 50 years," says proprietor Tung Dinh Tran, who opened the café in 1959 but has now handed over the management of it to his son. With...
With nearly an infinite number of songs in the universe at one’s disposal, the choice can be daunting. Mann, who picked Jean Knight’s definitive Motown piece, “Mr. Big Stuff”—he wanted “something diva,” he told me—testified that the decision wasn’t so hard...
...when actresses have parity in Hollywood. Now that it's over, female stars can return to playing patient wives or waiting for an agent's call. Or, for real wallowing, seeing a movie from the era when women onscreen were equal or superior to men. Here are six upcoming diva DVDs to glamorize your evenings--and to make every modern actress want to pour herself another vodka hemlock...
...become an immortal diva, it wasn't mandatory to die young, but it couldn't hurt. Jean Harlow succumbed to kidney disease at 26, after starring for ve years as MGM's cheekiest blond. In this 1933 ensemble comedy, Harlow, billed fourth, steals the show as Wallace Beery's conniving wife. An affront to the society swells she meets, she was catnip to amass audience who saw her as their stand-in, with a sailor's mouth and a heart of the purest brass...
...teen sweetness now a mask. And then, by an act of sternest will, she summons the old fun, as in the numbers A Couple of Swells and I Love a Piano. The innocent girl from The Wizard of Oz is reborn, through her pain, as a depression-defying diva.. --By Richard Corliss