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...reality is somewhat less dramatic. Piaf was actually born in Paris' Tenon Hospital, according to her biographer, Jean-Dominique Brierre. She grew up poor but was never blind, though she did have an inflamed cornea that was cured by ordinary medical treatment. She was also cleared of any involvement in Leplée's death. "Piaf didn't invent these myths," says Brierre, "but she knew it wouldn't harm her image to let certain rumors lie. With the facts skewed, her life was like a character in a novel - a romantic novel full of mythical relationships. I think this...
Luxembourg's Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean has almost everything a modern art museum could want: a prime location overlooking the nation's capital, a dramatic new building designed by renowned architect I.M. Pei and an expected deluge of art-hungry visitors. Luxembourg is one of this year's European Capitals of Culture, and a new TGV fast-train line from France opens in June...
...Just one thing is missing from the museum: modern art. Since its opening last July, the place has seemed oddly empty. Unlike its more established peers - Paris' Pompidou Center, Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, New York City's Museum of Modern Art - the Grand-Duc Jean (named after the sovereign who retired in 2000) doesn't have much of a permanent collection. Planners behind Mudam, as the Musée d'Art Moderne is known for short, started buying works about a decade ago. Even then, Monets and Manets were beyond their budget, and a Picasso was out of the question...
...been very lucky in Paris," says Robin, who arrived in the city from Brittany at age 17 and went to work for Jean Louis David before becoming a model booker at Elite Model Management. "People would call up asking for a blond, and I would contact a model and say, "Quick, come to my kitchen?you're going blond...
...Former Paramount executive Sherry Lansing, just given the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award by her friend Tom Cruise, deflects a question about Cruise's ugly send-off from her old studio last summer. "It's hard for me to comment," says Lansing, who made many movies with Cruise before leaving Paramount 2 1/2 years ago. "I'm very good friends with [Viacom President] Sumner Redstone." She does make a prediction about Cruise's career: "He will be here winning an Oscar within the next five years...