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PROFILE AND PERSONALITIES...
t1.WOMAN
ARTIST OF THE MONTH: THE MAGICAL UNIVERSE OF HEATHER CORINA.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. Meet
Heather Corina, one of the world's greatest photographers. She creates a
cosmos of one million dimensions and parallel rainbows for those who in their
daring thoughts and intimate theology, search for the beauty of our world,
bodies, sensuality and the tabooed esthetics. A genius, a visionary and simply
a woman who dares to be an Eve. Corina or the femme fatale of world
photography.
1.
Renate Aller: BY MAXIMILLIEN DE
LAFAYETTE. She
photographs femme fatales, elegant women, the clouds, inexistent people who
make you think, and the infinity of nothingness. You see it in her shots of
lyrical and nostalgic skies, horizons, clouds, seascapes and ultra modern
installations.
t9.WOMEN
GENIUSES OF DANCE AND BALLET. BY
MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. The Magical and Surreal World of Theatrical
Dance and Ballet...The religions of ancient Greece and Rome are extinct now,
but the gods and goddesses of Olympus are still vibrant in our dreams and
fragile hopes. The sublime deities came to life through poetry, music and
dance. They belonged to literature, fantasy, art and dance. In the firmament
of human imagination, they defined their divine circle, and continued to hold
it within the winds...
t16.DIVAS.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. The
New Wave of Divas and Femmes Fatales: Barb Jungr, Alison England, Jennifer
Terran, Sophia Dalle, Cheryl Bliss...
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...
t2.CABARET:
STARS AND LEGENDS. BY MAXIMILLIEN
DE LAFAYETTE. Wesla
Whitfield made her own rules and enlarged the perimeter of
performance excellence by sculpting an almost perfect sense of phrasing
which magically and very tenderly
reached the hearts and souls of multi-varied and demanding audiences. She
brought to the traditional world of cabaret music, a very intimate, warm,
pensive and personal musical and vocal interpretation which defied
conventionalism. This delightful defying and charmingly innovative creativity
is...
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...
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!
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...
42.THE
BEST AND THE WORST:
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE
LAFAYETTE. DELAWARE NORTH COMPANIES: UNITED STATES' BEST FOOD AND
HOSPITALITY COMPANY OF THE YEAR. Meet
Jeremy Jacobs,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Delaware
North Companies. A brilliant mind, with dominant leadership and unusual
visionary brilliance.
WOMAN
OF THE YEAR: Monica Crowley. BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. They
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.
POLITICAL FACES:
WORLD ART CELEBRITIES
JOURNAL’S ERICA SODERHOLM LIST OF AMERICA’S CARTOONS CELEBRITIES AND
CHARACTERS.
THE BEST AND THE WORST OF THE YEAR:
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.
The Winners, the Losers, the Turkeys!!
SOCIETY AND LIFESTYLE: Hottest
and Most Talented Women of the Year.
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. We will always talk about the famous and
the rich. Wealth and money are status symbol. When you have money, people
think that you know. When you lose your assets, social power and position, you
become yesterday’s news. You might get lucky and be remembered here and there,
but you are no more a headliner. You become like Australia. Everybody talks
about Australia but nobody wants to visit Australia.
WOMEN:
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE. TWENTY YEARS AGO, THESE LADIES
WERE AMERICA’S BEST AND:
THE SEXIEST, THE CLASSIEST, THE MOST INFLUENTIAL, THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS, THE
FEMMES FATALES, AND THE MOST FAMOUS WOMEN IN THE COUNTRY!!
WHERE ARE THEY NOW??
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.