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  CABARET
AND ENTERTAINMENT FROM A TO Z:
A MEGA 135 PAGE
IN-DEPTH ARTICLE OF THE HISTORY OF ENTERTAINMENT AND CABARET IN
EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES FROM THE 18th CENTURY TO PRESENT WITH
HUNDREDS OF VINTAGE AND RARE PHOTOS. By Maximillien de Lafayette
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 STARS
AND CELEBRITIES OF THE YEAR. FROM THE MOST BORING TO THE MOST
TALENTED AND LUCKIEST CELEBRITIES.
By Maximillien de Lafayette.
THEY ARE FAMOUS,
BUT, THEY ARE NOT BETTER THAN YOU!
There are 4 kinds of
stars-entertainers in the world: 1-The talented; 2-The talented
and the lucky; 3- The lucky; 4- The lucky and the boring. All,
except the "unlucky" make money. Big time money. Millions and
millions. Sometimes, the most boring ones are the luckiest and
among the wealthiest. And this tragic reality has nothing to do
with talent or lack of it. Many extremely talented artists will
never see their names in light. They don't lack creativity or
talent. They lack luck, a good agent, an effective publicist, a
shrewd manager, good contacts, business and promotion strategy,
and above all, they desperately need an "OPPORTUNITY", or a
break...Read
full article and see photos
 All
time femme fatales and divas of the film noire.
The femme
fatale, is an irresistible dramatic and dangerously attractive
woman. She is "la Femme" who directs men toward the abyss of
danger. Ironically, the literature of the sacred and the damned
does not include hommes fatales. Even, Charles Boyer, Jean Gabin
and Tyron Power do not fit the description of a fatal persona.
La femme fatale dates back to classic myth and ancient folklore.
Astarte (Ashtaroot in Aramaic and Phoenician) was one. Circe, is
another half woman half divine femme fatale who turned Odysseus'
men into swine in Book X of The Odyssey and the Sirens,
whose beauty and alluring song attracted his sailors and high
seas adventurers...Read
full article and see photos
   HISTORY
OF AMERICAN MUSIC AND GOSPEL SPIRITUALS:
THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN ENTERTAINMENT,
MUSIC, SOUL, JAZZ, FOLK AND GOSPEL SPIRITUALS FROM THE 17th
CENTURY TO PRESENT. INCLUDING:
History and Early Origin of American Music, American Song,
American Composers and American Singers from the Colonial Era to
the 21st century.
BY MAXIMILLIEN de LAFAYETTE...Read
full article
(A 70 page condensed edition)
FEATURE ARTICLES
 WHY
MOVIES STARS, CELEBRITIES AND ORDINARY WOMEN POSE NAKED?
By Maximillien de Lafayette.
Brigitte Bardot: "Animals walk around naked and they have more
loyalty than men. I have never been betrayed by my pets. But I
have been cheated so many times by men and women who were fully
clothed..."Josephine Baker: " I will strip by the name of God, if
I have to feed those orphans...".
WHY SOME WOMEN
STRIP IN PUBLIC AND WHY STARS POSE NAKED? For one million
reasons. And it has nothing to do with money, as many ingenious
minds and rednecks believe or imagine. Kate Moss does not need to
pose naked to make money. She appeared in full armored clothes on
major glossy magazines covers. And she earns zillions, just by
holding a product or looking at the camera. She does it because it
is part of the fabric of the business. Almost 88% of stars and
celebrities, including university professors, anchorwomen,
women-wrestlers, top executives and moms posed in the nude at one
time in their lives and careers for pragmatic, incomprehensible
reasons, fantasy, celebrity quest, notoriety exposure...
Read full article and see photos
 REVISITING
SUPERSTARS AND LEGENDS: ANN MILLER.
Once upon a time, she was number 1.
 The
star of forty motion pictures and Broadway shows, national tours
and innumerable television appearances, Ann Miller has been tap
dancing since her earliest childhood days. Ann began her Hollywood
career at age eleven, and with her vibrant personality, great legs
and her tap dancing, won a seven year contract with R.K.O. at the
age of thirteen (claiming to be eighteen). She was so remarkable
that by age fourteen, she played Ginger Roger's dancing partner in
"Stage Door", which started a Motion Picture Career that spanned
20 years. During that period, Ann appeared in more than 40 films.
At fifteen, Ann was "borrowed" by Columbia to appear with James
Stewart and Jean Arthur in "You Can't Take It With You" which won
the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1938. That same year, back
at R.K.O., she appeared with the Marx Brothers in "Room Service".
She left R.K.O. and starred on Broadway in the George White
Scandals of 1939 and 1940. Following her initial contract with
R.K.O., Ann came back to appear in the Rogers and Hart musical...Read
full article
 THE
HOLLYWOOD FILE:
THE
MOST REMEMBERED CINEMA DIVAS, ICONS AND LEGENDS.
Icon' -- like
'diva,' 'legend' and 'genius' -- has become a bastardized term, a
cliché applied by hack
publicists
to everyone from faded disco queens to Suzanne Somers. In a
cultural sense, what does 'icon' really mean? Consider the
differences between Marilyn Monroe and Meryl Streep, Elvis Presley
and Elton John. An icon is not just a star but the blueprint for
scores of imitators. Icons touch, dazzle and mystify each new
generation, very often for tragic reasons. How compelling it is to
watch people dance
closer to the flame than most of us
would ever dare; to take what we covet -- fame, beauty, riches --
and disdain it or destroy it...Read
full article
THE MASTERPIECES OF
GODARD:
One of Godard’s masterpieces, in which Marianne Renoir (Karina,
who was divorcing the director at the time), accompanies
Belmondo’s Pierrot, who has abandoned his wife and children in
Paris, on a doomed escape to the Mediterranean. The movie is
important for its themes of alienation and brooding narcissism,
especially revealed in a party where mannequin-like capitalists
spout American TV ad copy instead of conversation...Read
full article
 THE
MEGA DOLLAR WOMEN. THE MOST EXPENSIVE STARS IN HOLLYWOOD.
What so special about these women? Are they
the most intelligent and captivating human beings in the world?
NO! Have they contributed the most essential and the most needed
help, knowledge and wisdom to the society and world of excellence,
humanities and human science? NO! So why are they so expensive?
Why they are making so much money, millions and millions of
Dollars, when so many talented artists, creative singers and
entertainers, devoted teachers, academicians and much more
intelligent, fascinating and brilliant minds and bodies are barely
surviving? Find out!
Read full article
AN OLD FRENCH PORNO FILM HAILED AS A
MASTERPIECE: Woman's erotic
presence as a pivotal necessity in
art films and documentaries. A
secret stash of naughty silent films turned up in a Paris attic,
and producer Michel Reilhac knew he had to put them on the big
screen...Read
full article
![[The lovely Kim Novak]](kimporcel.jpg) Actress
Kim Novak leads rustic life.
"What would I be doing if I still lived
here?" Kim Novak mused. She supplied her own answer: "I'd be
spending my afternoons shopping on Rodeo Drive." Instead, she has
chosen to live in a wooded paradise near Ashland, Ore. Called
Windsong, it's a place she and her husband, Bob Malloy, share with
golden eagles, geese, deer, elk and a host of other wild fauna,
not to mention a barnyard full of farm animals. "We have two or
three hundred acres (80 to 120 hectares), including two large
islands," she reported. "The main channel of the (Rogue) river
runs past
the islands.
A smaller tributary passes in front of our house...Read
full article
COMING SOON...AND FOR
THE FIRST TIME ON THE INTERNET
100 YEARS OF
CINEMA
INCLUDING:
HISTORY, BIOGRAPHIES, UNTOLD STORIES, REVIEWS, ESSAYS AND HUNDREDS
OF VINTAGE AND RARE PHOTOS.
By Maximillien de
Lafayette
THEATER
THEATER, SHOWS AND MUSIC MAIN PAGE.
Listing of
Events, reviews and stars.
EVENTS CALENDAR
   EVENTS
CALENDAR: On stage and performing arts at The Bendheim
Performing Arts Center.
The
Three Phantoms in Concert. An Evening of 'Mask'-uline
Entertainment with Craig Schulman, Cris Groenendaal and Ted Keegan
are among Broadway’s best, all having starred as the Phantom in
Phantom of the Opera...Carol
Channing & Friends - Starring Linda Fields, Diana
Templeton and Richard Skipper as Carol Channing...Duck
Soup Magic Show! Tim and Robin Balster dazzle audiences
with their display of prestidigitation! This fast-paced spectacle
features large illusions such as the Broomstick Suspension, an
amazing defiance of gravity; Metamorphosis...AND MUCH MORE...Read
the article
ENTERTAINERS,
STARS & PERSONALITIES
 SUPER
ENTERTAINERS
By Maximillien de Lafayette
Daryl Sherman:
Although
she is relatively a “new” leading presence of the new generation of
singers and pianists, Daryl Sherman has been already recognized by
peers and critics as the brightest shining star of the contempo
jazz artists caravan. Influenced by Ella Fitzgerald, Rodgers and
Hammerstein, Julie Andrews, Doris Day, Rosemary Clooney, Joe
Williams, Mildred Bailey and Sarah Vaughan, formidably trained by
her father Sammy Sherman (A former Jazz trombonist in New York city
during the golden big band era) at an early age and fueled with
passion for music and singing, Daryl had to make her mark on the
world of music and entertainment, for singing, performing and
playing the piano were and still are a major part of her soul and
life. At age of five, Daryl began to sing American standards and
imitate her father on a daily basis...Read
the article
INTERNATIONAL ENTERTAINMENT,
EVENTS AND SHOWS
MUSIC
MUSIC MAIN PAGE: CDs
New Releases
TELEVISION
TELEVISION: Shows,
programs, films and reviews.
 Sex
and the City's Nixon is in the House.
Photo: Cynthia Nixon. NEW YORK- Sex and
the City star Cynthia Nixon will make a guest appearance on an
upcoming episode of the Fox medical drama House. The episode is
slated to air in December, the network said Friday. Nixon will play
a "sharp-witted patient who suffers from a mysterious seizure and
goes toe-to-toe"...Read
the full article
 Fine
tuning: Naked Archeologist, Vegas.
The Naked Archeologist. VisionTV.
Photo: Lara Flynn Boyle joins the cast of
Las Vegas in a show that also features a performance by the Pussycat
Dolls on Monday night. (NBC.com). On a Thanksgiving night when Major
League Baseball playoffs continue to throw a curveball into
regularly scheduled programs and the pagan U.S. networks are
trotting out the usual murder and mayhem -- tonight, on CSI Miami,
Horatio solves a prison murder! -- now might be a good time to belly
up to The Naked Archeologist, if you haven't done so already. The
Naked Archeologist is a Discovery-style weekly program that follows
irrepressible...Read
the full article
N EWS:
“What A Wonderful Place” to be Opening Night film at The 21st
Annual Israel Film Festival. DAVID LINDE, JAMES SCHAMUS OF FOCUS
FEATURES; AMOS GITAI ADDED AS HONOREES ON OPENING NIGHT DECEMBER
1, 2005. LOS
ANGELES, California- Focus Features Co-Presidents
David Linde and
James Schamus and
Israeli Filmmaker Amos Gitai
will be honored at the Opening Night Gala of the
21st Annual Israel Film
Festival, it was announced today by Festival Chairman Meyer
Gottlieb, COO of Samuel Goldwyn Films. The festival’s opening night
film is “What A Wonderful Place,” written and directed by Eyal
Chalfon. The movie is Israel’s foreign language film entry for the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ Oscars.Manager/Producer/Best-Selling
Author Bernie Brillstein
will also be honored that evening, with
Jerry Weintraub
introducing Mr. Brillstein. The festival, the largest showcase of
Israeli films in the U.S. and one of the oldest film festivals in
California, will run from December 1-15, 2005 with...
REVIEWS:
 THIS
WEEK 10 TOP FILMS
SPINNING INTO BUTTER:
Spinning into
Butter is currently filming on Governors Island in New York
City. Sarah Jessica Parker will be joined by Beau Bridges (The
Ballad of Jack and Rose, The Fabulous Baker Boys), Miranda
Richardson (The Hours, The film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The
Phantom of the Opera) and Mykelti Williamson (Forrest Gump, Waiting
To Exhale, Ali) in the film adaptation of SPINNING INTO BUTTER,
based on the hit play by Rebecca Gilman. The cast also features:
James Rebhorn (Independence Day, The Talented Mr. Ripley), Peter
Friedman (I Shot Andy Warhol, Ragtime on Broadway), Victor Rasuk
(Raising Victor Vargas), and Paul James (Cry Wolf)...
 CINEMA:
MOVIES REVIEWS: Two For the Money: Dramatic tension never
quite fulfilled. Photo: Al Pacino is
the gamblers' god in Two For the Money. (Universal Pictures). All
Street meets Las Vegas -- the middle of Vancouver -- in Two for the
Money, a slick and stylish reel that attempts to recreate Al Pacino
as the modern Gordon Gekko, with a post-millennial lump of pathos.
Pacino plays Walter, a reformed gambling addict who's turned his
destructive habit into a profitable advisory service for other
players. Give Walter money, and he'll give you his expert picks on
what's a lock for the weekend. Walter isn't allowed to gamble
anymore, but when he brings in a young buck named Brandon Lang
(Matthew McConaughey)...
Read the full article
 In
Her Shoes: Strong acting lifts it above standard chick-flick
Photo: Maggie (Cameron Diaz, left)
and Rose Feller (Toni Collette), with nothing in common but size 8
feet in "In Her Shoes." (Twentieth Century Fox/ Sidney Baldwin).
There's a scene in In Her Shoes in which Cameron Diaz and Shirley
MacLaine sit around a TV set with some neighbours at a Florida
retirement community, watching Sex and the City and sipping that
show's signature cocktail, the cosmopolitan. In Her Shoes seems to
be striving for that series' same mix of witty insights into female
relationships and romance with weighty tearjerker moments.
Everything about the film cries out to the same core audience: the
source material (Susannah Grant's script is...Read
the full article
 SCREENING
OF SISTER ROSE'S PASSION.
At Edmond J.
Safra Hall at the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to
the Holocaust. 36 Battery Place, New York, NY 10280. Sunday,
October 16 at 2:30 p.m. Sister Rose Thering To Discuss Her Life
Spent Fighting Anti-Semitism ...
NEWS AND GOSSIPS
THE BUZZ
Launch
of debut album, SECRET* .
THE ALYSON GREEN QUARTET
TUESDAY 11 OCTOBER
@
606
CLUB .90
Lots Road, Chelsea London SW10 OQD
www.606club.co.uk.
Doors open 7.30pm –
performances between 8pm and 10.30pm.
Music
charge £7 Table reservations/bookings Tel: 0207 352 5953
jazz@606club.co.uk.
Alyson Green...
 STACY
ROBIN ON HER WAY TO THE TOP. IT COULD HAPPEN!
"SOME
KIND OF BIRD". RATING: 4 STARS OUT OF FIVE.
From
within her new CD "SOME KIND OF BIRD", Stacy Robin emerged as a
world-class singer/songwriter, lyricist. Once upon a time, the
substance and warmth of lyrics, the rich and uplifting musical
arrangement, the choice of musical instruments, the delicate...
RIGHT ONTO
THE TRACK by DOUG GOCHMAN.
The irresistible talent of
Doug Gochman makes you wonder whether LUCK has anything to do with
fame and success. And the answer is you bet!...
Bono the
utlimate 'ubersexual' man. Stand aside
oily womanizers and clueless wimps and make way for the passionate
ubersexual man of the future. An ubersexual? "Ubersexuals are the
most attractive (not just physically), most dynamic, and most
compelling men of their generations," says New York advertising
executive Marian Salzman, who invented the word. "They are
confident, masculine, stylish, and committed to uncompromising
quality in all areas of life." And who is ubersexual numero uno? U2
front man Bono, says Salzman because "he's global, socially aware,
confident, and compassionate...
Welcome to
his revitalized nightmare.
There are, generally, two types of show
biz folk. There are the rock stars who take their craft terribly
seriously and disdain the mundane parts, such as answering the same
interview questions over and over again. And then there are the rock
stars who are simply grateful to be a rock star, and are too
gracious to outwardly tire of the duties, no matter how tiresome.
Alice Cooper is in the latter group, and if you didn't know, or
wanted to hear it again, he'd tell you all over again why it is that
he's forever confused with Ozzy Osbourne when it comes to biting the
heads off birds.
MUSIC: THE STARS, THE GOSSIPS AND
THE NEWS
  Ashlee
Simpson redeems herself on 'SNL'. Ashlee
Simpson sang -- really, she did -- without incident on "Saturday
Night Live" in her return to the scene of last year's lip-synch
fiasco. "I wrote this song after my last 'Saturday Night Live'
appearance," she said, introducing the mournful "Catch Me When I
Fall." She belted out the song with gusto, the only boost seeming to
come....
 Boy
George nabbed on narcotics charge. Boy
George was arraigned on drug charges early Saturday, nearly 24 hours
after calling the police emergency line to report what he said was a
burglary in his Manhattan apartment, authorities said. The British
singer, whose real name is George O'Dowd, claimed his home had been
burglarized around 3 a.m. Friday, said Detective Kevin Czartoryski,
a police spokesman. Officers arrived at O'Dowd's...
 Jessica
and Nick deny breakup rumours. Another
day, another divorce story about Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey.
Magazine reports prompted representatives for the pop star couple to
issue statements Wednesday denying they have split -- although
semantically speaking, the statements left room for a future
breakup. "Nick and Jessica have not separated," said a statement
issued on behalf of Simpson and Lachey. "Rumours to the contrary are
simply not true." In an e-mail to The Associated Press...
Eminem publisher chasing ring-tone loot.
Grammy-winning rapper Eminem's publishing companies
have filed a lawsuit in an effort to stop his songs from being used
as cellphone ring tones. In the suit filed Tuesday in U.S. District
Court in Detroit, Mich.-based Eight Mile Style and Martin Affiliated
are seeking a court order...
 Nobody's
gonna rain on this Wolf Parade.Riders on
the storm. Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner is talking on a cellphone as
drummer Arlen Thompson drives the band's tour van through pouring
rain, midway into a 20-hour drive from Vancouver to Chicago. It's an
image befitting Wolf Parade's recently acquired status as indie
rock's next big thing. The makings of the tempest: Heirs to hometown
brethren the Arcade Fire's regal torch; unwitting beneficiaries of
the media blitz surrounding all things Montreal music; anointed by
Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock, who produced the band's...
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NEWSFLASH
GREAT SHOWS AT NEW YORK
BIRDLAND
New
York's Birdland music and entertainment program, this month, is
charged with super duper, world class stars, such as Freddy Cole,
Hilary Cole, Christine Ebersole and the sensational Sofia Laiti, who
will be performing on Monday 26th at 7 PM.
Sofia Laiti,
New York Diva of modern Jazz Cabaret.
Laiti In
Concert is a must see show. It has all the elements of a mesmerizing
musical event: Vocal virtuosity and style originality of Laiti, rich
and melodious arrangements blended into an intellectual Mata Hari
ambiance. Laiti's voice is out of this world. Go see her on stage.
It is quite an experience at many levels.
CHRISTINE
EBERSOLE
Another
great favorite is "Christmas with CHRISTINE EBERSOLE & BILLY STRITCH"
, Tuesday, December 20 - show time 7pm. Christine Ebersole is more
than a spectacular entertainer. She is a gem. And she proved it
zillion times on Broadway, on films and at so many TV shows. Get
your act together and dash to Birdland to enjoy Christine Ebersole
LIVE! Read more about this fabulous artist in the EUROPEAN JOURNAL.
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GLORIA LORING: HER LIFE,
BOOKS, MUSIC AND STARDOM.
READ THE ARTICLE AND EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
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 and a humanitarian.
This woman is almost 99.99% perfect. This is the kind of people who
create and shape the greatness of a nation. This is the vintage of
noble souls, warm hearts and bright minds who make the sun rise and
shine over the hills, the prairies and the faces of people we
love...And this is the kind of human beings who at every dawn, make
the wild roses bloom in the valley and on the landscape of the human
psyche.
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