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Less than three years before she died, Edith Piaf found the song that became her anthem. Non, je ne regrette rien rang through Paris' Olympia Music Hall as the frail singer, weakened by illness and drug and alcohol abuse, sustained by injections and pills, made an emotional comeback. Night after night, from Dec. 29, 1960, to April 13 of the following year, the diminutive woman in her trademark black dress lifted a chalky face to the spotlights and bared her soul. "I regret nothing, good or bad. All is forgotten, I don't care about the past . . . I'm beginning...
...Thirty years after her death on Oct. 10, 1963, at the age of 47, France has revived the romance. Record companies have rereleased her hits, and six of her nine films are on videotape. Observing the flood of visitors who have made the pilgrimage this year to Paris' modest Edith Piaf Museum, curator Bernard Marchois says that "it is as if she never went away." And in one sense, she has never left...
...also not a really mediocre movie. It's either a really good movie flawed by bizarre cinematographic antics, wooden acting and a horrendous voice-over, or a really bad movie partially salvaged by charming period images and a touching plot. In either case, Martine Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel of manners gives you, if not a run for your money, at least an elegant trot...
Newland is the hero of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel The Age of Innocence, and in his emotional corset he may seem a supporting player in life's melodrama, as far from the noisy concerns of our day as Polonius. The drawing-room virtues of reticence and gentility are considered dead in the Age of Prurience. Yet they still govern our lives whenever we check an impulse to explode in love or anger -- when we don't shout at a reckless motorist, or we keep quiet when we mean to proclaim our ardor. If Richard Kimble is a hero...
...unrestrained growth and infinite success is over. The Japan that is experiencing its most profound dislocations since its resurrection from World War II hardly looks any longer like the all-devouring Godzilla of Western myth. Former French Prime Minister Edith Cresson's publicly voiced fear of Japan's "desire to conquer the world" sounds off-key, and American workers can stop their bitter jokes about how they will all be laboring for Japanese bosses...