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INSULTS...INTERVIEWS...IRAQ...LEARNING.
INSULTS
tFAMOUS
GOSSIPS AND INSULTS AGAINST FAMOUS WOMEN.
I
have more talent in my smallest fart than you have in your entire body. "
Walter Matthau talking to Barbra Streisand. About Nancy Reagan: "A senescent bimbo with a lust for home furnishings." Barbara
Ehrenreich. About Margaret Thatcher: "Attila the Hen."
Clement Freud. About Princess Margaret: "She looked like a
huge ball of fur on two well-developed legs." Nancy Mitford. About
Queen Victoria: "Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria
was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective."
George Bernard Shaw. About Dorothy Kilgallen: "She
must use Novocain lipstick." Jack Paar. About Sarah Ferguson: The Dutchess of York: "She is a lady short on looks, absolutely deprived
of any dress sense, has a figure like a Jurassic monster . . . very greedy
when it comes to loot, no tact and wants to upstage everyone else." Sir
Nicholas Fairbairn, etc...
INTERVIEWS
201.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH SUPERSTAR GLORIA LORING.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
205.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MONICA CROWLEY.
t1.Lyne
Tremblay. BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. She is de facto, Canada's most sophisticated, elegant and captivating
cabaret Diva and "Femme Fatale".
Her voice is an explosion and implosion
of warmth, vocal virtuosity, seduction, truthful inner feelings and a magical
"Un Je Ne Sais Quoi?". You look at Lyne and the scent of a Parisian Diva of La
Belle Epoque or "Les Annees Folles" breath over you. You look at Lyne
Tremblay, and Montmartre, Les Grands Boulevards, the dialogues of Jean...
t34..SUPERSTARS
AND LEGENDS: MAXIMILLIEN INTERVIEWS THE DIVAS.
tGLORIA LORING.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. She did it all with class, beauty,
intelligence, style, talent, unique creativity, guts and warmth. And she
excelled in everything she accomplished. Grande Dame Loring is a published
author, a national speaker, a world-class actress, an international
celebrity, a star of the American cinema and television, a leading figure of
the American theater and concert halls, a singer, a composer, a lyricist, a
songwriter, a producer, a certified yoga teacher, a member of Who's Who in
America and The World Who's Who of Women...
t2.RAQUEL BITTON.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
She is Edith Piaf’s soul, tears and joy, but she remains herself “The Grande
Dame Raquel Bitton” with pure individuality, distinctive style and her own
Jewish persona. Raquel Bitton is the foremost and single most important
international singer responsible for reviving the repertoire of the
legendary Edith Piaf worldwide. Raquel Bitton made her
mark on the French world of music. Her previous engagements, appearances and
credits include music documentaries and singing for PBS, National Public
Radio, recitals at “Carnegie Hall” in New York...
WOMAN OF THE YEAR:
Monica Crowley. BY MAXIMILLIEN
DE LAFAYETTEThey
called her so many things and gave her so many "appellations" like an
old Petrus or a Napoleon Cognac. The list goes on ad infinitum. Some
observers see in Monica Crowley "The hottest babe of the Republican
Party". Others dignified her with a tricolor stigma "The First Consul of
the Triumvir", for three ladies, quite often make the big buzz in
Washington and New York: Coulter, Ingraham and Crowley. The Three
Republican Graces. But Crowley shines brighter, smarter and prettier
than all of them.
IRAQ
MODERN ART IN IRAQ:
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. LEADING FIGURES AND INTERNATIONAL
PERSONALITIES:
No country will ever survive if
its art dies. it the proper time to talk about Iraqi modern art
amidst the turbulent Iraq passage toward new political and social
metamorphoses? Absolutely, for nations were initially born through
the original expressions of individual and shared feelings, ideas,
concepts and ideologies transmitted and illustrated through the
medium of art. Equally true is the survival of nations and the
preservation of their heritage, history and national pride through
art in all its forms and styles.
WORLD CULTURE, ART AND CIVILIZATION.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE CIVILIZATION, ART, CULTURE AND
HISTORY OF IRAQ?
LEARNING
18.FABULOUS TIMES, PLACES AND PEOPLE.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
GAY PARIS IN THE 20s and
30s: Background, People, Places, Personalities, Hospitality,
Restaurants, Food, Wine, Pleasure, Style, Fashion, Arts, Poetry, Music
and Adventure. According to Maximillien de Lafayette. Mon Dieu! To be and live
in Paris during "Les annees folles", between the end of 1917 and 1934,
especially if you were an eccentric artist, an intellectual adventurer,
a frou-frou femme fatale, a genius or an independently wealthy American,
willing to spend a lot of money on arts, dating and women. Ask
Madonna, Paulette Attie, Penelope de Vassy and Louise de
Chambertin. Really "real" America's la crème de la crème was there.
The "real" American high society, the privileged class, the snobs
(Although it was too early for the Americans to know how to be a snob),
les bourgeois, wealth filthy characters, the hustlers with a style, the
scandalous adventurous women, the schmoozer and the cruisers, the
handsome gigolos, the champagne, the caviar, the kisses and the misses,
sex, the drama and all the "chic" pleasures of the era. Hemingway was
here. Paramour Stein too. Why Paris - what made everybody want to come
here and create, and drink, and dance, and paint, and write stories or
invent them? Women? obnoxious, over-cultured and over-sophisticated
Frenchmen? Bubbly champagne? Sinfully good wine? Nice plat de fromage? A
nostalgia? A fantasy? A new social, political and artistic era? A modern
Parisian revolution? Yes! Yes! All of the above!


170-200.
HISTORY OF AMERICAN MUSIC AND THE BIRTH OF CABARET
FROM THE
EARLY JAZZ ERA TO PRESENT.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
Artists, performers,
entertainers, musicians, composers and singers of yesteryears and at the dawn
of American music were so different from those who came to the scene of the
modern American music of the 20th and 21st centuries.
The music was real musical composition, no Rap crap and heavy metal distorting
noises. The lyrics were simple, evocative, poetic and polite and consequently,
songs could be sung by all generations and audiences of all ages. The musical
productions were either super extravaganzas or daringly intimate and
sentimental.
21.WORLD
HOSPITALITY CELEBRITIES OF THE MONTH,
BY ARLETTE LAGRANGE.
Mireille
Guiliano (Meer-ray Julie-ano) is president and CEO of
Clicquot, Inc.,
the firm she helped found in 1984 and was its first employee. Today she
is recognized as the driving force in building the company's highly
regarded national organization, developing its portfolio of
ultra-premium wines, and igniting the remarkable growth and brand
recognition of its flagship Champagne Veuve Clicquot. Educated in Paris,
where she studied French and English literature at the Sorbonne and
languages at the Institut Supérieur...
23.AMERICANS
VERSUS FOREIGNERS.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE
LAFAYETTE. What foreigners like and dislike
most about Americans?!
33..TIPS
FOR DEALING AND SOCIALIZING WITH FOREIGNERS.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
CAN WE GENERALIZE SOCIAL
BEHAVIOR AND ATTRIBUTES OF NATIONS AND PEOPLE?...ON.ITALIANS...FRENCH...
APANESE...GREEKS...IRANIANS... LEBANESE...ARABS...
MUSLIMS...By
Maximillien de Lafayette.
46.THE
WORLD OF FOOD AND HOSPITALITY. THE BEST OF AMERICA.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE
LAFAYETTE.
De facto, the French Culinary Institute is America's best
culinary school. Perhaps, the world's best culinary school?!
They took the lead, thanks to the unsurpassed talents and
overwhelming experience of giants in the culinary arts and
hospitality industry who are in charge of the institute.
Legendary names like
Jacques Pépin, Dean of Special
Programs, Alain Sailhac, Executive...
ANALYSIS: AMERICANS VERSUS FOREIGNERS:
MODERN ART IN IRAQ:
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. LEADING FIGURES AND INTERNATIONAL
PERSONALITIES:
No country will ever survive if
its art dies. it the proper time to talk about Iraqi modern art
amidst the turbulent Iraq passage toward new political and social
metamorphoses? Absolutely, for nations were initially born through
the original expressions of individual and shared feelings, ideas,
concepts and ideologies transmitted and illustrated through the
medium of art. Equally true is the survival of nations and the
preservation of their heritage, history and national pride through
art in all its forms and styles.
SOCIETY: ETIQUETTE: BY
MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
AMERICAN NOUVELLE
SOCIAL ELITE VERSUS THE INTERNATIONAL ELITE..
Brief Analogy: Differences and Similarities.