Word: piaf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...used as winter quarters by mice. It has a lamentable tendency to lure performers into horrific displays of digital dexterity. It is also matchless at invoking with artful umpahs the special nostalgia that clings to Lili Marlene's Kaserne and the pastis-tinctured cafés of Edith Piaf s Paris...
...took his father's mistress, Diane de Poitiers, when he was 17 and she 36. Balzac met his mistress, Madame de Berny, when he was 22 and she 44, and he remained with her for ten years. Sometimes the unions have been rather pathetic, as when Singer Edith Piaf, at 46, one year before her death, married a former Greek hairdresser more than 20 years younger. In modern France as well as elsewhere, older women and younger men tend to have affairs rather than marry. For one thing, the typical older woman is a divorcee and would forfeit alimony...
...vast network of talent scouts, Sullivan's product sells chiefly because it is first with the best. His first show, in 1948, introduced a young comedy team named Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Since then, he has presented the U.S. TV debut of such performers as Edith Piaf, Clark Gable, Maria Callas, Humphrey Bogart, Jackie Gleason, Marian Anderson, Julie Andrews, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, and the Beatles, not to mention such oddities as Liberace and Rise Stevens singing...
...piano. His secret, he explains, is that "I don't play at them; I make them come to me." - Norman Wallace, at Chicago's Mon Petit, is a singer in the tradition of Mabel Mercer-quiet, cool, reassuring. In the '40s, he wrote songs for Edith Piaf; later he tried his hand at musicals in New York before migrating to Chicago, where he leavens a Continental repertory with up-tempo show tunes and a few Beatle ballads. The social set and young marrieds think he's keen. Says one fan: "His French songs give...
Ironically, as her career skyrocketed, the specter of Piaf gradually became a restricting influence. Mireille wanted to develop her own style. Actually, though the similarities in intonation are unmistakable, Mireille's budding voice has little of the bittersweet pathos and built-in sob that endeared Piaf to generations of Frenchmen. When Maurice Chevalier heard 19-year-old Mireille sing a few months ago, he counseled: "You are young, pretty, and your success has made you happy. You should not sing unhappy, tortured songs. Sing on the sunny side of the street." And so she has, trading in her black...