Word: divas
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...eldest son, Akio Bouillon, is scheduled to greet guests at the Ch?teau des Milandes?Baker's Dordogne mansion and a highlight of the eight-day itinerary. Tour participants will also attend all-day celebrations at the Village des Milandes on June 3, and spend several days exploring the diva's favorite Parisian haunts. In a city where racial tensions have recently flared again, Baker's life and example of tolerance are as relevant as ever...
...Akio Bouillon, is scheduled to greet guests at the Château des Milandes - Baker's Dordogne mansion and a highlight of the eight-day itinerary. Tour participants will also attend all-day celebrations at the Village des Milandes on June 3, and spend several days exploring the diva's favorite Parisian haunts. In a city where racial tensions have recently flared again, Baker's life and example of tolerance are as relevant as ever...
...this spoofy musical. Then its cheery, self-mocking inventiveness wins you over. A lonely-guy theater buff (played by co-writer Bob Martin) puts on his LP of a fictional 1928 musical, and, faster than you can say Flo Ziegfeld, it materializes in his apartment. There's a Broadway diva, a scheming producer, gooey love songs and stock comic sidekicks. Best of all, there's the sensational Sutton Foster, who, in one knockout number, spins plates, does cartwheels and pulls out every other stop just to prove, as she sings, "I don't wanna show...
...Documentaries need self-dramatizers, and being a diva was Jack Smith?s art and life. At the start of Mary Jordan?s irresistible doc Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis, the artist?s reedy voice is heard intoning, "Doctor, doctor, tell me, please, / Is my brain a germ or a disease?" Late in life, he says of his work: "I was knocking myself out to make this stuff. And I always assumed that people would see this and have pity and give me a little support. [Now he shouts:] They didn...
...irony, of course, is that the easier it is to become famous--whether in a really famous fashion or simply as a queen for a day--the more irrelevant the meaning of celebrity becomes. As a diminutive diva on My Super Sweet 16 guilelessly observes, "We're like celebrities but not famous." Exactly. Autographs, please...