Word: piaf
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...just for gods but for pop stars who earn fans' ardor with an electrifying presence and their sympathy with very public private lives of addiction and misbehavior. The stars' talent makes them unique; their transgressions make them human. Michael Jackson, who died in June at age 50, outlived Edith Piaf and Judy Garland by three years, and Elvis by eight. (Forget Madonna - that woman is too smart to self-immolate.) Jackson's bizarre resculpting of his features, his litigious shenanigans with his youngest admirers, his obsession with being an eternal preadolescent, a petrified Peter Pan: all these eccentricities gave...
...great aviator jackets and sweaters. For dinner, we'd reserve a table at Autour d'un Verre, tel: (33-1) 4824 4374, a friendly restaurant that serves great food. To finish the night, we'd head to La Java, tel: (33-1) 4202 2052 - a historic club where Edith Piaf once performed. (See pictures of Paris at LIFE.com...
...Hollywood's Little Troc, she and her daughter crossed most of the boundaries set up by racial discrimination. Sailing on ''every ship of the French Line,'' they mingled offstage with the celebrities Lena had enchanted onstage in London and Paris --the Laurence Oliviers, Noel Coward, Yves Montand, Edith Piaf--until Lena herself became a name to drop. The pools of Hollywood opened up to Lena when she became one of the first black film stars to escape the costume of a maid's uniform, in Cabin in the Sky and Stormy Weather. John Barrymore kissed her hand. Orson Welles tried...
...gowns and Armani tuxes right after lunch - it seemed as if Oscar might be following the Super Bowl, the Grammys and the Democratic presidential primaries in providing a slate of improbable winners. Cotillard, who poured her 5ft. 6in. frame into the shivering, shimmering 4ft. 8in. personality of chanteuse Edith Piaf, was only the second Best Actress winner from a foreign-language film. (Sophia Loren won in 1962 for Two Women.) Swinton, a Brit much admired for her fearless choice of indie roles, was an even longer shot as the scheming executive in Michael Clayton. But that wasn't a surprise...
...haunted, funny, scary--and on key Daniel Day-Lewis There Will Be Blood A superb actor in an opaque role--it's all snarl, no soul Julie Christie Away from Her She radiates the vague cunning of dementia, its creeping oblivion Marion Cotillard La Vie en Rose Her Edith Piaf has the big gestures but lacks the sad internal music