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With Piaf as its subject, Olivier Dahan's new film La Môme (The Kid), titled La Vie en Rose in some countries, was virtually assured success. In the first week following its Feb. 14 release, the film attracted over 1.5 million viewers - 400,000 more than the 2001 smash hit Amélie pulled in its first week. The towering billboards are an appropriate symbol of Piaf's cultural legacy. She may have measured a mere 1.47 m, but the full-scale Piaf revival Dahan's film has inspired shows that, decades after her death...
...iTunes' French site. Six best-selling music books on the French version of Amazon are Piaf titles. At least five books on or by Piaf were published last month, and more are on the way. Paris' prestigious Marigny Theater is reprising the hit play Piaf, une Vie en Rose et Noir to near-capacity crowds. Considering Piaf's popularity abroad - which other French singer can shift 75,000 copies of their greatest hits in South Korea? - this comeback looks set to be more than just a Gallic phenomenon. Dahan's film is rolling out across Europe...
There was a perfectly rational pattern to the way prices tumbled: emerging-market stock prices fell more than those in developing countries. Small stocks lost more value than big stocks. Junk-bond prices fell while Treasury bonds rose. But why then...
...audience, you throw them a surprise while telling them a story they've heard before. James Cameron knows how to hook an audience. Appearing in New York City with a limestone coffin that he claimed had held the remains of Jesus, Cameron attacked a central Christian tenet--that Christ rose bodily from the dead. Yet he confirmed another article of faith: that Hollywood blasphemers are out to get Christians...
...felt we had to win this, we had to come back,” Simmons said. “We told ourselves we had to get some goals and the defense really stepped it up at the end of the game.”Freshman attack Alexandra Comstock rose to the challenge, tying the game at 13-13, and paving the way for Martin’s game-winner.Simmons refused to take credit for the victory, despite leading the Crimson with four goals and one assist.“It was a team effort,” she said...