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DIVA AMANDA McBROOM  

   "The Legend, The Artist, The Poetess And The Woman" by MAXIMILLIEN de LAFAYETTE

 

Photo 2005:  WORLD OF GLAMOUR

New York Artist: Rachel BertoniALISON ENGLAND: IS SHE THE WORLD OPERA NEWEST SUPERSTAR AND  GRANDE DAME? YOU BET!

THE ART OF NEW YORK FEMALE ARTISTS!                                                                                                                                                          JESSICA BURSTEIN ON HER WAY TO THE TOP.

FABULOUS TIMES, PLACES AND PEOPLE P.229

MOST POWERFUL MEN AND WOMEN IN BUSINESS IN THE UNITED STATES & THE WORLD!

THE SECRET LIST OF THE NAMES OF AMERICAN SENIOR POLITICIANS AND THE WHITE HOUSE  WITH THEIR SECRET NAMES CODE.

                     

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS OF ART&STYLE MAGAZINE

P.6. EDITORIAL by Gisele von Guntenbergersen, Chairman and Publisher

P.7. CELEBRITIES:

EMPRESS SORAYA SAGA. THE LOOTED ART OF IRAQ AND THE INSENSIBILITY OF THE WHITE HOUSE. THE 100 TRES CHIC AND TRES ELEGANT WOMEN OF THE WORLD...

 

P.11. THE WORLD OF CINEMA: JESSICA BURNSTEIN The multifaceted talents of Jessica Burstein: Film maker, director, editor, producer, screenplay and movie star!   Jessica Burstein is the living example of the modern, ambitious, creative and fascinating American woman of our time. She is the newest promising and bursting film maker of the year. She had the talent, the vision and the guts. She had to prove it to her peers and to cinema goers on a large scale. One way to do it: Make the movie, write the script, direct the picture and star in it. And she did! Jessica had no hesitation about her talent and abilities to make a movie...

Huit - Collection Poupoupidou

Aubade - Collection GeishaP.14. THE ART OF LINGERIES. A GLANCE AT THE 2005 FASHION: FROM THE DESK OF VALERIE CONSTAND.

 

 

P.17. PORTRAIT OF A NEW YORK  FEMALE ARTIST: RACHEL BERTONI.

P.19. THE WORLD OF ART: ART AND ARTISTS IN NEW YORK CITY:  BY ARNOLD Untitled (Sensitive Chaos Series)RONSTAND.

DANIEL ILIESCU: And all of a sudden, the press and art communities began to write and talk about him. It took Daniel Iliescu 3 or 4 years in New York City to make his art and his name known on a large scale. November was a good month for Iliescu.  THEY ARE TALENTED, BUT NO MONEY HONEY!   Betsy Jacaruzo, May Bender, Rachel Bertoni, Michelle Golias, Kiki Brodkin, Susan Cohen, Pat Fabysack, Hariet Hunter, Katherine Kadish, Susan Knight, Judith S. Miller, Ellen Pliskin, Debra Ramsey, Caren Raphael and Judy Somerville.

P.22. THE BEST AND THE WORST OF THE YEAR: BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE, GISELE VON GUNTENBERGERSEN AND WACJ EDITORIAL STAFF:

The year witnessed two stars scale the ladder of global superstardom. In the laydeez' corner is Beyonce Knowles, who became a solo phenomenon thanks to a whole lot of rump-shaking. The all-conquering man is Justin Timberlake, who collected a fistful of MTV awards - and caused a ripple by dirty dancing with Kylie Minogue at the Brits..

P.38. TOP 100 CELEBRITIES MAKING MONEY.

 P.39. TOP TEN CELEBRITIES MAKING MULTIMILLIONS.

 

 

 

 

P.40. WOMEN: 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??  

P.47. SECRETS: THE SECRET LIST OF THE NAMES OF AMERICAN SENIOR POLITICIANS AND LEADERS ALONG WITH THEIR SECRET NAME CODE.

P.48. WORLD CIVILIZATION, CULTURE  AND ART HISTORY: THE ART, THE SECRETS AND THE MYSTERIES OF THE SACRED PAINTINGS OF THE EARLY RELIGIOUS ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS, BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE.

 

 

Robert De NiroP.57. ENTERTAINMENT GOSSIPS AND NEWS: The Italian-American film star Robert De Niro was due to receive Milan's highest honour, the Golden Ambrosius award, from the city's mayor, but did not show up. He also failed to appear at a press conference for the New York Tribeca film festival in Rome...HE IS famous across Britain for his foul-mouthed outbursts - but award-winning chef Gordon Ramsay has now revealed his notorious temper to a new audience in the United States...and much more GOSSIPS! THE CELEB CHEF IS IN HOT WATER AGAIN AFTER SCUFFLE ON THE SHOW SET IN THE UNITED STATES...DEPP AND WINSLETT AT THE RED CARPET...MICHAEL JACKSON'S LAWYER QUITS...UNPRECEDENTED RECORD OPENING FOR SHREK SEQUEL...SPEARS GIVEN A DEADLINE...WENDY JAMES FIGHTS BACK...SANDRA BULLOCK WINS $7 M IN COURT...LIVE SHOW TO START EMINEM...LOVE'S LAWYERS FIGHT FEES DISPUTE...DIGITAL DEBUT FOR WILLIAMS FILMDIGITAL DEBUT FOR WILLIAMS FILM...ZETA JONES BACKS LITERARY PRICE...SIR ELTON'S PERSONAL PHOTOS COLLECTION: $900,000.

PhotoP.61. DIVAS AND SUPERSTARS: MEET THE NEWEST WORLD OPERA SUPER SENSATION: DIVA ALISON ENGLAND. She is larger than life. And her voice is an explosion and implosion of mesmerizing vocal virtuosity and joyful drama. A living legend with a big heart and immense talent. Meet the American princess of world opera who conquered Paris...

P.62.WORLD OF FASHION AND GLAMOUR: The 2005 fashion. Selected collections. The designers, the models, and of course, the gossips.

 

P.66. GRANDE DAMES AND DIVAS: AMANDA McBROOM: THE ROSE OF ALL ROSES. Amanda McBroom has been called “…the greatest cabaret performer of her generation, an urban poet who writes like an angel and has a voice to match.” And WACJ calls her “The Immortal Living Legend And The Greatest Songwriter/Singer Of All Time”. Today, Amanda McBroom is the greatest songwriter/singer/entertainer in America. She does not need more awards and additional recognition (s). She has more than enough, enough for centuries to come. Nevertheless, the readers and the editorial staff of World Art Celebrities Journal had to reveal their admiration and ultimate respect for this Super Diva; Amanda McBroom, the best of the best, the living immortal legend! So, what they did was very a propos. They elected her as the “INTERNATIONAL WOMAN OF THE YEAR”, America’s best and greatest female singer/songwriter of all time.

P.74. ARTISTS AND STARS OF THE YEAR: CINDY BENSON. America's first lady of the tragi-comic theater.

P.75. DECADENCE OF ART IN GREAT BRITAIN: Is This Art? Millions of art lovers and art curators think so? Especially the big time wheelers-dealers modern art agents in New York and London. Herewith below, are some of the “Saatchi Art Masterpieces” as displayed at the world famous London Tate Modern Show.

 

 

P.79-80. WORLD-CLASS TALENTS: SOFIA LAITI. ysterious American chanteuse Sofia Laiti is making a big buzz with her recently released CD YOU DON'T KNOW ME, her debut recording of European and American cabaret repertoire. I just said Cabaret Debut, not a singer career debut, because she has already 3 CDs to her credit.  She has been classically trained, but for some reasons, she decided to become a jazz singer. A short biography by Alex Henserson in All Music Guide sheds a light on the background of this singer...

 

P.81. INTERNATIONAL LATEST NEWS: GEORGE LUCAS HONOURED. ENTERTAINERS BECOME LOBBYISTS. CHRIS ROCK TO HOST THE OSCARS. NICOLE KIDMAN PREFERS REAL BRUNETTE. MEL GIBSON DONATES MONEY TO CHARITY.    MICHAEL MOORE GIVES MONEY TO UNIVERSITIES.

P.83. INTERNATIONAL LATEST NEWS, CONT'D: CABLE TELEVISION WILL NOT SHOW MOORE'S FILM. JOHN EDWARDS RIDICULES PRESIDENT BUSH ON NATIONAL TELEVISION. P.85. REALITY TV FINED $1,183,000 FOR INDECENCY.  BROADWAY, THE FOLLIES, THE PBS AND YOU.

 

 

P.87. HOT GOSSIPS AND NEWS: FEDS INVESTIGATE PAPER OVER LEAKED MEL GIBSON'S "PASSION" TAPE. APPRENTICE NEW TV SEASON.

 

 

 

 

P.90.THE ART SMALL CORNER: The landscape art of Michelle Golias. Joan Ledwith. IS THERE A MARKET FOR LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS? YOU BET! I just discovered two American artists who did just that. Bring the beauty of the world to their linens. And they did it with grace, affection and unique talent. Michelle Golias and Joan Ledwith are those magnificent landscape artists.

 

P.91. MUSIC: PETER FRAMPTON: NEW MUSIC AND CHALLENGING WORK. CHARLOTTE'S DEBUT ALBUM. HEAVY METAL AUCTION IN NEW YORK CITY. AND MUCH MORE.

Julia RobertsP.92. STYLE AND SIGNATURE. REVISITING the 2004 FASHION OF THE STARS: At Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs is going for gold. In tribute to old world MGM glamour, he's playing with gold beaded fringe skirts and belts, and dashes of gold lamé. The gold ostrich trench that closes the show, worn by Toronto model Jessica Stam, is eye-popping. But the real story here is the handbags: Jacobs riffs on the canvas bag with smart little straps and buckles in an assortment of colors.

P.111. REVIEWS AND CRITIQUES:  TEAM AMERICA ARRIVES. P.S.: Team America: World Police arrives in theatres with what has to be the most unusual, unprecedented blurblet explaining why it received an R rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. CHEMISTRY AND GRACE: LAURA LINNEY AND TOPHER GRACE:We already knew that the lovely Laura Linney could do anything - drama (You Can Count On Me), tragedy (Mystic River), comedy (Love Actually) - all with seemingly effortless nuance. But her co-star in P.S., Topher Grace, proves himself surprisingly versatile, as well...

 

P.112-128. CUBISM: THE FOUNDERS OF  RUSSIAN ABSTRACT ART: BIOGRAPHIES AND ARTWORKS. DID THE RUSSIAN PAINTERS INVENT ABSTRACT ART AND CUBISM LONG TIME BEFORE PICASSO AND BRAQUES? Cubism (a name suggested by Henri Matisse in 1909) is a non-objective approach to painting developed originally in France by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque around 1906. The early, "pre-Cubist" period (to 1906) is characterized by emphasizing the process of construction, of creating a pictorial rhythm, and converting the represented forms into the essential geometric shapes: the cube, the sphere, the cylinder, and the cone. Between 1909 and 1911, the analysis of human forms and still lifes (hence the name -- Analytical Cubism) led to the creation of a new stylistic system which allowed the artists to transpose...

 

 

 

P.129. FASHION: MILANO 2005 INTERNATIONAL FASHION SHOW. SUMMER COLLECTION.

 

P.134. ARTISTS FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE

Painting: Suspension/Cerebration XIINew York Artist Deb Ramsay: Past in the PresentUntitled (Sensitive Chaos Series)Image of ''Portrait of My Studio:The Western Wall''

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P.135. ASK ERICA: READERS' MAIL: Readers' opinions and thoughts. Read all about it....

P.139.  DIVAS AND SUPERSTARS:  Enter the world of diva Alison England. An exclusive interview with this fabulous and stunning queen of opera in Paris.

P.142.WORLD ARTS EVENTS & CALENDAR: Lauren Greenfield: Girl Culture. John Cohen's Photography. P.143. Robert Arneson: Political Drawings. Walter King's Final Thoughts of Mountains, Lions and Rivers.

 

144. PHOTOGRAPHY: NEW YORK'S BEST PHOTOS AND  BEST PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE MONTH.

 

 

 

 

 

147. THEATRE./DRAMA: Adrian Hodges has written some of most successful dramas. He's no stranger to big budgetBosnian actors performing during the main rehearsal of the Srebrenica Women opera at the Bosnian National Theatre adaptations of classics, having written the spectacular dinosaur drama, Yhe Lost World. Adrian has turned his hand to the works of RD Blackmore with  Lorna Doone and wrote the  recent version of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield (which was produced by Kate Harwood , with Costume Design  by Mike O'Neill, both of whom worked on Charles).

148. OPERA: An opera inspired by the 1995 massacre of Muslims by Bosnian Serbs at Srebrenica is due to open in Sarajevo. Almost 8,000 men and boys were executed in Srebrenica, which was a UN-declared safe zone at the time. The Bosnian National Opera will perform the opera - called Srebrenicanke (Srebrenica women) - for the first time.

 

149. MUSEUMS/GALLERIES: A lighting technician’s dream at London’s Albion Gallery. Walking into the Albion Gallery, part of a new Norman Foster complex, is a little like being in an architect’s model. Identical lined-up trees and vast empty spaces create an air of anonymity. Turrell’s clean and apparently emotionless work, though, is exactly the type of art that an architect might approve of inhabiting such a model..

150.THE ESSENTIALS: THE BEST CABARET MUSIC AND SONGS CDs: The ESSENTIALS are those CDs or recordings which are looked upon as major, important and most significant for the genre per se. Cabaret is my forte. Cabaret music is my favorite topic. And I will writing about it, and about the best cabaret CDs of recent years; CDs of American Cabaret singers and songwriters. Unquestionably, the greatest non Parisian, non ethnically French Cabaret singer in the world and outside France is RAQUEL BITTON  who currently lives in California...

Souvenir

Available at Amazon.com

You Don't Know Me

ALBUM COVER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

152.POP NEW RELEASES & REVIEWS: Bjork has said she finds her best, most loved music has been the songs she was selfish in making. On her latest, the Icelandic chanteuse has cast out even the instruments. Bjork's seventh album, Medulla, which refers to the spinal cord in Latin, gets to the heart of the marrow, so to speak...IBob Marley is reggae's king, Jimmy Cliff is its prince. The veteran Jamaican singer has the royal lineage. He started his career in the early '60s ska scene in Kingston while still a teenager and has grown along with the music through its many permutations...And much more...

153. ENTERTAINMENT: It was nearly a lifetime ago that Brooke Shields shocked the world as a knowing child prostitute in the film Pretty Baby and told us that nothing came between her and her Calvins. As that rare creature who navigated her way from child stardom to a successful adult career, Shields looks back on it all as a fun time, a great opportunity...Red carpets and banners festooned a soggy Leicester Square on Wednesday for the opening night of the 48th annual London Film Festival, which has a slate as diverse as the teeming capital city that hosts it. Between Mike Leigh's working-class tragedy Vera Drake, which opens the festival, and the closing film, David O. Russell's existential comedy I (Heart) Huckabees on Nov. 4, 180 features and 103 shorts from 60 countries will be screened.

 

154. AMERICA'S BEST ARTISTS OF THE YEAR

Barb Jungr155. CABARET: MEET THE QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN'S CABARET. BARB JUNGR.Barb Jungr

Diva Barb Jungr is a living legend. She is larger than life on stage. She is witty, captivating, warm and boiling with musical lava and unsurpassed vocal virtuosity. An English woman who sings like real, real, real Parisian cabaret singers? Like Piaf, for instance? Not really. Perhaps much better, because he is happier than those stuffy melodramatic French singers who complicate your life. French cabaret is intense because it is drama. Jungr's cabaret is happy, vivacious, filled with joy and hope. They compared her to Ute Lemper, Juliette Greco and Edith Piaf.

 

157. CLASSICAL MUSIC: SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE. ANDREW MANZE: PORTRAIT. CORELLI VIOLIN SONATE. OP5/ANDREW MANZE, RICHARD EGARR.

 

 

 

158. FASHION SUMMER SUMMER 2005 BY EMANUAL UNGARO AND GEORGES CHAKRA

159. AUTHORS AND BOOKS: Meet LEAH FURMAN

160. MAXIMUM EXPOSURE: AMERICANS VERSUS FOREIGNERS:  What foreigners like and dislike most about us.

166.SOCIETY: ETIQUETTE: AMERICAN NOUVELLE SOCIAL ELITE VERSUS THE INTERNATIONAL ELITE.. Brief Analogy: Differences and Similarities

 

 

170-200. WORLD OF CABARET: AMERICAN MUSIC AND THE BIRTH OF CABARET FROM THE EARLY JAZZ ERA TO PRESENT.  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.

201. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH SUPERSTAR GLORIA LORING.

205. EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MONICA CROWLEY.

 

 

 

 

 

214. HEADLINES AND HOTTEST GOSSIPS OF THE YEAR: This is what we have heard this year.

 

 

 

 

 

228. INTERNATIONAL ARTIST OF THE MONTH: SOPHIA DALLE: A new refreshing breeze of unusual artistic genre. Most recently, the London Monthly Herald published a striking piece on Sophia Dalle. A relatively newcomer to the cabaret scene in New York City. But this American singer brings with her wealth of talents, originality and mystifying artistic personality. She is not your common cabaret singer. She is unusual in her stage appearance, her dialogue, her lyrics, most certainly her looks and the message she conveys on and off stage. On one hand, she could remind you of Gloria Swanson, the divas of the black and white movies. And on the other hand, she projects you onto a futuristic world of music and the sphere of a passionate and sensual cabaret of tomorrow.

 

English comedian and actor Charlie Chaplin with a bulldog in the film Champion Charlie.229. FABULOUS TIMES, PLACES AND PEOPLE: PARIS IN THE 20s and 30s: Background, People, Places, Personalities, Pleasure, Style, Fashion, Arts, Poetry, Music and Adventure. 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, Leah Furman, 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 schmoozers 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.

246. TÊTE-À-TÊTE WITH DIVA AND WRITER EXTRAORDINAIRE, LEAH FURMAN. Exclusive Interview With America's #1 Dating Expert. She is stunning, young, famous, vibrant, self-assured, overwhelmingly intelligent, bright, bright, bright, jolie et chic, highly educated, authored more than 25 books with many bestsellers. She knows a lot about life, "camelionized" people, women, men and those who are between. She wrote books on life, business, entrepreneurial successes, celebrities, superstars, musicians, money, etiquette, legends, religion, society,  love, sex, dating, etiquette and refined manners.

 

254. THE CILICIAN STYLE: FROM ITS GLORIOUS DAYS, ITS ORIGIN, ITS RISE, ITS GLORY TO ITS FALL AND DEATH ON THE HAND OF THE MAMLUKS. The second style of the early Armenian manuscripts painting is the Cilician style.   A very beautiful, colorful, rich, vibrant, humanistic and detailed brighter and happier art.  Tens of thousands of illuminated manuscripts were produced in the times of medieval Armenia. Unfortunately many perished.

 

 

261. ART HISTORY AND GENOCIDE: To fully understand the essence and spirit of Armenian art in the homeland and Diaspora, a brief glance at the history of Diaspora in the last hundred year (1895-1994) is necessary. At the end of the 18th century and at the beginning of the 19th century the political and geographical role of the Russian Empire becomes more dominant and active in the internal affairs of Armenia. Russia won the 1804-1013 war against the Persian empire. Consequently, Russia gained many territories, and new lands, including the Caucasus, Gandzak khanates and Karabagh.

270.WORLD CABARET: NEW YORK CITY- Her  October cabaret show at Joe's Pub in New York City was a smashing success. Barb Jungr took New York and the audience by storm. Listening to her albums is a delight. But, seeing her performing on stage is the ultimate musical treat and an experience at many levels, not to miss. From her very first song to Waterloo Sunset, her international hit, Barb Jungr shined brighter than midnight sunset, enrobed with a femme fatale aura, a sensual intellectualism and the implosion of a dignified femme fatale. Her show was a sort of a tribute to Bob Dylan. She sang his biggest hits, her style and her way and she excelled. But, when she delivered Jacques Brel's "Ay Marieke, Marieke", the audience went wild. She mesmerized the hell out of them.

273. THE ART OF LINGERIES: 2005 FASHION.

 

 

277. WOMEN OF POWER: THE WEALTHIEST AND THE MOST INFLUENTIAL

279. POWER: USA MOST POWERFUL PEOPLE IN BUSINESS

 

WORLD OF ART

281. THE WORLD OF ART: THE BEST AND THE WORST: ART REALITY TV SHOW?  JEFFREY DEITCH'S "ARTSTAR" PROJECT: A JOKE OR HUMILIATION? PERHAPS, BOTH!

283. ART TODAY: MICHEL MAJERUS, FLORENCE BIENNALE, THE XIth TRIENNALE OF INDIA JOINS THE PRESTIGIOUS FLORENCE BIENNALE.

 

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THE WORLD OF FASHION 2005: FROM THE CLASSY TO THE BIZARRE.
 

 

DIVAS AND SUPERSTARS:         MEET THE NEWEST WORLD OPERA SUPER SENSATION: DIVA ALISON ENGLAND

 


 
 

OPERA

Bosnian actors performing during the main rehearsal of the Srebrenica Women opera at the Bosnian National Theatre

 

 

 

 

 

OPERA: An opera inspired by the 1995 massacre of Muslims by Bosnian Serbs at Srebrenica is due to open in Sarajevo. Almost 8,000 men and boys were executed in Srebrenica, which was a UN-declared safe zone at the time. The Bosnian National Opera will perform the opera - called Srebrenicanke (Srebrenica women) - for the first time on Friday night.

 

 

FASHION: SPRING/SUMMER 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UNGARO & CHAKRA

HEADLINES AND HOTTEST GOSSIPS OF THE YEAR

 

 

 

 

 

 

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MONICA CROWLEY.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ENTERTAINMENT: OUR CHOICE

 

 

ENTERTAINMENT: It was nearly a lifetime ago that Brooke Shields shocked the world as a knowing child prostitute in the film Pretty Baby and told us that nothing came between her and her Calvins. As that rare creature who navigated her way from child stardom to a successful adult career, Shields looks back on it all as a fun time, a great opportunity...Red carpets and banners festooned a soggy Leicester Square on Wednesday for the opening night of the 48th annual London Film Festival, which has a slate as diverse as the teeming capital city that hosts it. Between Mike Leigh's working-class tragedy Vera Drake, which opens the festival, and the closing film, David O. Russell's existential comedy I (Heart) Huckabees on Nov. 4, 180 features and 103 shorts from 60 countries will be screened.

 

MUSIC:

PETER FRAMPTON: NEW MUSIC AND CHALLENGING WORK                     CHARLOTTE'S DEBUT ALBUM          HEAVY METAL AUCTION IN NEW YORK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

STARS AND DIVAS OF THE AMERICAN CABARET AND THEATER  

AMANDA McBROOM: THE GRANDE DIVA OF AMERICAN CABARET. ENTER HER WORLD, MUSIC, POETRY, TALENT PRISM AND CABARET OF AMANDA.

ARTISTS AND STARS OF THE YEAR: CINDY BENSON: A NATIONAL TREASURE, AMERICA'S GREATEST STAGE ACTRESS, TODAY!

 

 

TÊTE-À-TÊTE WITH DIVA AND WRITER EXTRAORDINAIRE, LEAH FURMAN. Exclusive Interview With America's #1 Dating Expert. She is stunning, young, famous, vibrant, self-assured, overwhelmingly intelligent, bright, bright, bright, jolie et chic, highly educated, authored more than 25 books with many bestsellers. She knows a lot about life, "camelionized" people, women, men and those who are between. She wrote books on life, business, entrepreneurial successes, celebrities, superstars, musicians, money, etiquette, legends, religion, society,  love, sex, dating, etiquette and refined manners.

 

 

IN-DEPTH ARTICLE: FABULOUS TIMES, PLACES AND PEOPLE: PARIS IN THE 20s and 30s: Background, People, Places, Personalities, Pleasure, Style, Fashion, Arts, Poetry, Music and Adventure. 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, Leah Furman, 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 schmoozers 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.

 

IN-DEPTH ARTICLE: THE BEST AND THE WORST  OF THE YEAR  

ART, SHOWS, MUSIC, CINEMA/ TV
   

The year witnessed two stars scale the ladder of global superstardom. In the laydeez' corner is Beyonce Knowles, who became a solo phenomenon thanks to a whole lot of rump-shaking. The all-conquering man is Justin Timberlake, who collected a fistful of MTV awards - and caused a ripple by dirty dancing with Kylie Minogue at the Brits...

 

 

 

 

 

THE BEST AND THE WORST MOVIES

 

 

 


 

 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

THE STARS, THE WINNERS, THE LOSERS AND THE TURKEY OF THE YEAR IN EACH CATEGORY

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

     

 

HAUTE COUTURE PARIS FASHION 2005: A BRIEF GLANCE AT PARIS, MILANO & THE WORLD NEWEST COLLECTION

Everything chic and la crème de la crème of world fashion designers
WORLD OF FASHION AND GLAMOUR:

 

 
 

LINGERIES: The audacious, erotic, ravishing, glamorous, classy, risqué, romantic and magnificent world of French lingeries.
 

 
WORLD-CLASS TALENTS:

Barb Jungr

SOFIA LAITI "YOU DON'T KNOW ME".  

 FIRST LADY OF JAZZ, BARB JUNGR TAKES      NEW YORK BY STORM AND RUNS WITH IT...............................

WORLD CABARET: Maximillien de Lafayette's review of Diva Barb Jungr's show at Joe's Pub in New York City.

NEW YORK CITY- Her  October cabaret show at Joe's Pub in New York City was a smashing success. Barb Jungr took New York and the audience by storm. Listening to her albums is a delight. But, seeing her performing on stage is the ultimate musical treat and an experience at many levels, not to miss. From her very first song to Waterloo Sunset, her international hit, Barb Jungr shined brighter than midnight sunset, enrobed with a femme fatale aura, a sensual intellectualism and the implosion of a dignified femme fatale. Her show was a sort of a tribute to Bob Dylan. She sang his biggest hits, her style and her way and she excelled. But, when she delivered Jacques Brel's "Ay Marieke, Marieke", the audience went wild. She mesmerized the hell out of them.

 

 

De Niro: The Italian-American film star Robert De Niro was due to receive Milan's highest honour, the Golden Ambrosius award, from the city's mayor, but did not show up. He also failed to appear at a press conference for the New York Tribeca film festival in Rome...

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