Word: piaf
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...little could detract from ABC's superb pictures of the events themselves. Nadia Comaneci performing her flawless routines in a trance of innocence. Olga Korbut turning into an instant Edith Piaf. Gymnast Shun Fujimoto's kamikaze dismount with a broken knee. The victory lap after the 400-meter hurdles when Gold Medal Winner Ed Moses and Silver Medalist Mike Shine loped round the track in joyous exhaustion. Weightlifter Vasili Alexeyev looking like the Buddha meditating over 561 I=lbs. of iron...
...movie seemed to be a Gallic version of That's Entertainment-a montage of vintage film clips showing France's late great stars performing on-screen and -stage, in music halls and cabarets. Youthful and jaunty, Maurice Chevalier delivered a cheerful rendition of Our Hope. Edith Piaf crooned / Danced with Love. Singer Mistinguett and Actor Fernandel garnered applause from ecstatic audiences...
Dangerous, Fragmentary. There were important distinctions, Naud conceded, that the film had blurred. Piaf, among others, simply sang to make a living, and often succeeded in cheering up the French in those grim years. On the other hand, Actress Danielle Darrieux, shown boarding a train to Germany in Let's Sing, acted in German films and entertained Nazi soldiers in army camps. Even more disturbing to French audiences were shots of Maxim's restaurant, which was jammed with German officers and French businessmen, and of high-living socialites of le tout Paris attending cocktail parties given by Otto...
WORKING WITH no more pure vocal equipment than Dylan, she digs deep into her Pitman, New Jersey, garbage-cans-crashing-in-the-morning voice to come up with some sultry Piaf and sneering Jagger and belts it out with a kind of controlled epileptic frenzy. Gangfight scuzz. What's not so simple and brutal are the words. She is a poet and her rock and roll is all based on her poetry. A cultural groupie, it is clear that she has swallowed a lot of influences to have borne the devil child of her work. An article in Rolling Stone...
Jimi Hendrix. Brian Jones. William Burroughs. Andy Warhol. Janis Joplin. Lou Reed. Edith Piaf. Baudelaire. Norman Mailer. Rastafarianism. Playwright Sam Shepherd...