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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...
...know who the bastard is, not to mention how and why a bastard of Istanbul becomes “the” bastard of Istanbul. Perhaps it’s a “Fear Factor” type deal in which all of the bastards in Istanbul vie for the prized title, though it certainly could be more of a Quidditch Cup setup. I guess the only way to find out would be to actually read the thing. THE DOUBLE BIND by Chris Bohjalian A lithe blonde on a crisp spring day is pictured riding her bicycle in front...
...cognac, and then there's cognac. The emphasis is on the latter at Domaine du Grollet, the family estate of cognac maker Rémy Martin outside Cognac in southwestern France. In one of its aging cellars, rows of tierçons (ancient oak barrels) hold eaux-de-vie (twice-distilled white wine that acquires its amber color from the barrel) for the 40-100 years it takes to attain the opulent qualities of its premium cognac, Louis XIII de Rémy Martin, which retails for around $1,400 a bottle. To be labeled a cognac, as opposed...
...censors into incoherence in the U.S., Pandora's Box had to wait a generation to find its audience. But when recognition for the film, and even more so for Brooks, did come, it didn't stop. The Anna Karina character in Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre sa vie was based on her, as was Melanie Griffith's Lulu in Jonathan Demme's Something Wild. An adoring 1979 New Yorker profile by Kenneth Tynan (calling Brooks "the most seductive, sexual image of woman ever committed to celluloid") cemented her celebrity, and suddenly the Rochester, N.Y., recluse was up in the silent...
...result is just hypocritical enough to turn the stomachs of fans of the Boss. The album, which takes its name from a hotel-casino in Vegas, offers about as much authentic Americana as neighboring Paris Las Vegas Hotel offers of “la vie Parisienne.” Catchy as the title track may be, Flowers may need a reminder that it takes more than singing “my brother he was born on the fourth of July” to live up to the Boss’s legacy...