Word: divas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What happened is just devastating. It's humiliating," said Clark Diva, brother-in-law of Johnson...
MEETING VENUS. A Hungarian guest conductor (Niels Arestrup) meets a Swedish diva (Glenn Close) while rehearsing Wagner's Tannhauser with a motley and disputatious band of emigre musicians in Paris. Result: a funny, satirical, romantic and -- above all -- intelligent film about backstage intrigues and onstage triumphs...
DARLINGS, I wanted to be the first to brush back my long flowing tresses, throw open my dainty little mouth and shout--in an operatic tremor befitting a DIVA like myself--BRAVA on your latest FABULOUS double issue of Peninsula...
ABBEY LINCOLN: YOU GOTTA PAY THE BAND (Verve). Abbey Lincoln has done it all -- supper-club singing, song writing, movie acting (The Girl Can't Help It, For Love of Ivy). Now on the comeback trail as a jazz diva, she combines the emotions of Billie Holiday with a personal delivery rooted in her own poetic lyrics. Never has her talent been better displayed than on these 10 songs, five of them from her own pen, featuring outstanding backup work by the late tenor-sax great Stan Getz...
Case in point: the cast and staff of The Sun Also Sets, a soap opera of transcendent tackiness. Its reigning diva is Celeste Talbert (Sally Field), so insecure that she must periodically journey to New Jersey shopping malls so she can be fawned over by her fans...