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...Cole Porter Songbook, Ella Fitzgerald...
...decade-long recession done much to puncture the pleasure principle. "Part of our laissez-faire attitude," says attorney George Denegre, chairman of the region's Chamber of Commerce and a former King of Carnival, "is that, if times get tough, you go to the Gulf Coast instead of Paris." Ella Brennan, whose family owns several of the city's top restaurants, agrees. "This is a restaurant town," she says, sipping Chablis at the mahogany bar of Commander's Palace. "In New Orleans, if you're about to declare bankruptcy, you go out to dinner the night before...
...displays of affection," he adds. Nor does Musawi welcome the Lebanese government's plans to resume Baalbek's summer festival. From 1955 until the outbreak of war 20 years later, some of the world's leading talents performed under the stars on the steps of the temple of Bacchus. Ella Fitzgerald, Cole Porter, Ginger Rogers, Claudio Arrau and Mstislav Rostropovich are but a few of the celebrities who have signed the guest book now locked in the safe of the Palmyra Hotel, across the street from the ruins. Says Musawi: "The people of this region no longer want this loose...
...final fling, she has brought in the famed British "introspectionist" director Lyce Cameron Aixion (Andrew Dietderich '91) and a crew of has-beens and never-will-be's to produce a script written by Wellesley grad and former romance novelist Ella Menopy (Laurence O'Keefe '91). Between the ineptness of the camera operator and the devious schemes of some ambitious, back-stabbing thespians, the movie "Safari Sagoodi" appears doomed to failure...
...talent, notably Elvis Presley and the Beatles. And not just in pop. Sullivan proudly treated his audiences to classical excellence in the personae of opera diva Joan Sutherland and ballet stars Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. He encouraged black artists at a time when TV offered them few opportunities. Ella Fitzgerald and Pearl Bailey were all but regulars; Motown stars -- from Smokey Robinson to the winsome little Jackson Five -- got ample display...