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GREATEST MUSICAL EVENTS OF THE YEAR: THE OSCARS, GOLDEN GLOBE, THE GRAMMYS, THE CMA. The Red Carpet, the Gala, the Presenters and the Winners. FULL COVERAGE.

Maximillien de Lafayette writes in-depth about 3 SUPER WOMEN and interviews CLAIRE MARTIN, THE QUEEN OF JAZZ (JAZZ SINGER OF THE YEAR), Dr. Monica Crowley (WOMAN OF THE YEAR) and Lauren Field (International Star of 2004).

WOMAN OF THE YEAR. THE SMARTEST LADY IN AMERICA: Monica Crowley. 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

Cameron Diaz

SOCIETY AND LIFES TYLE: Hottest and Most Talented Women of the Year. 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.

MAXIMILLIEN de LAFAYETTE'S CHOICE OF THE BEST CDs, MUSIC AND SINGERS OF THE YEAR. BEST AND WORST EVENTS, FASHION, ART, SCANDALS, POLITICS AND IDEAS.

2005 WORLD LINGERIE FASHION: Exotic rich colors embrace the French and Italian lingerie fashion for 2005. Silk and cotton are the fabric of choix de rigueur. Various "gammes" of whites are making a come back. Although exotic island colors like pink, lilac and paradise green dominate the European collections.

PAVAROTTI: Across a spacious living room that seems to float 23 blue-sky storeys above Central Park South, Luciano Pavarotti is slumped at his oversized desk like a corpulent Christ. Arms theatrically cantilevered over high-backed chairs on either side of his frame,

STARS' FASHION: CLASSIEST, MOST ELEGANT AND WORST DRESSED STARS OF THE YEAR.

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P.6. WOMAN OF THE YEAR: Monica Crowley. 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.

POLITICS CARTOON

P.17. FACES: WORLD ART CELEBRITIES JOURNAL’S ERICA SODERHOLM LIST OF AMERICA’S CARTOONS CELEBRITIES AND CHARACTERS.

THE BEST AND THE WORST OF THE YEAR FROM A TO Z

P.20. THE BEST AND THE WORST OF THE YEAR: The Winners, the Losers, the Turkeys!! Musical, Arts, Entertainment, Stage, Film, Recording, Painting, Shows High and Low of the Year. The Shameful, the Tasteless, the Decadent, the Scandalous...

Cameron Diaz P.21. SOCIETY AND LIFES TYLE: Hottest and Most Talented Women of the Year. 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.

SOCIOLOGY

P.36. ANALYSIS: AMERICANS VERSUS FOREIGNERS: What foreigners like and dislike most about us, by Maximillien de Lafayette, from his book:" The Secret Book of Nations". 1-Why the majority of foreign countries lost faith in the United States (Who cares? Yah, right!); 2-Why many foreigners look down on American men and women; 3-Why the majority of foreigners would never trust us again; 4-Why American women scare the hell out of them; 5-Why contemporary American art is falling apart in Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East; 6-And why those bloody antagonistic foreigners keep on coming to America and suck our blood, eat our honey and drink our milk…Why Europeans and 99% of educated foreigners look down on American men and women who walk barefoot in their homes and drink straight up from the bottle?

CELEBRITIES AND MONEY

TOP 100 CELEBRITIES MAKING MONEY. Read it at: http://www.worldartcelebrities.com/top_100_celebrities_making_money.htm

TOP TEN CELEBRITIES MAKING MULTIMILLIONS. Read it at: http://www.worldartcelebrities.com/top_ten_celebrities_making_money.htm

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?? read it at: http://www.worldartcelebrities.com/people_by_maximillien_de_lafayet.htm

MODERN ART

P.37. MODERN ART IN IRAQ: 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.

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42. BALLET: A WORLD LEGEND IS WITHOUT A JOB!! WHAT A SHAME!! The promise of an extended career on the artistic staff of the Boston Ballet ended quickly for Eva Evdokimova. The world-renowned ballerina and ballet teacher who served the Boston Ballet as ballet mistress this past season was fired for economic reasons less than a year after being brought...

43. ALINA COJOCARU: THE NEW WORLD BALLERINA PRINCESS: Born in Bucharest, she trained in Kiev for seven years before joining the Royal Ballet School in 1998 on a Prix de Lausanne scholarship. Upon completion of her training, six months later, she returned to Kiev to dance with Kiev Ballet for a year.

P.44. KIROV: Kirov Ballet triple bill. At The Royal Opera House, London. The opening night of the Kirov Ballet's Homage to Diaghilev program, while promising much, proved a surprisingly muted affair. The evening opened with Chopiniana, Mikhail Fokine's moonlit reverie. San Francisco Ballet

P.45. SAN FRANCISCO BALLET/ HELGI TOMASSON: he most "European" of US ballet companies, acclaimed at Edinburgh 2001, showcases the fine young English neoclassical choreographer Christopher Wheeldon with three ballets including a world premiere commissioned by the festival. Playhouse Theatre. Helgi Tomasson has held the position of artistic director for San Francisco Ballet since July 1985.

P. 46. ANDREW MOGRELIA: Andrew Mogrelia has conducted many leading orchestras in England, including the Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, and BBC Scottish Symphony, among others. In addition, Mogrelia has appeared in venues such as London’s Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, and Symphony Hall in Birmingham.

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P.50. Violetta Urmana OPERA. Headliners of the Year: Le Corsaire at The Royal Opera House, London. One of the most skittish ballets in the Kirov's 19th century repertory - a burlesque mix of Byron and Ali Baba, wedged together with some cracking classical dance...Maria Padilla at The Opera House, Buxton...Macbeth, Violetta Urmana... Pappano, Pacido Domingo... Der Ring des Nibelungen: Tim Albery's ...Maria Padilla at The Opera House, Buxton ...Richard Armstrong ...Sarah Connolly...

Elliott Carter Quartets...Dawn Upshaw...Los Angeles Philharmonic...Carmen at The New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-Under-Lyme...

P.57. SCOTTISH OPERA: The praise is ringing from the rooftops of Edinburgh - Scottish Opera’s Ring Cycle is the triumph of the Festival. "Bold, deft, vast organic power," wrote one reviewer; "a singularly powerful moving force," considered another. Yet for all the glory, the future of the company remains in doubt, after the opera took an effective cut in its public funding in the Scottish Arts Council (SAC) budget in this year.

P.58. PAVAROTTI: Across a spacious living room that seems to float 23 blue-sky storeys above Central Park South, Luciano Pavarotti is slumped at his oversized desk like a corpulent Christ. Arms theatrically cantilevered over high-backed chairs on either side of his frame, his neck and shoulders draped in a paisley Hermes scarf that complements his lime-green shirt, he appears hunkered down, a mountain of a man wedged into place.

P.61. VOIGHT: Voight Gets 23-Minute Ovation As 'Isolde'Runners in the Vienna Marathon passed the State Opera House on the Ringstrasse at midday Sunday. A few hours later, Deborah Voigt had amarathon of her own inside the house — singing her first staged performance as the heroine of Wagner's epic "Tristan und Isolde." Sunday night's performance marked a triumph for the 42-year-old soprano from Illinois, who boosted herself into the ranks of the finest Wagner interpreters with heft of voice and beauty of tone throughout the register.

P.62. Salvatore Sciarrino: Chamber Music" Sciarrino: Piano Trio No. 2. Le voci sottovetro. Tre notturni brillanti. Infinito nero. New Juilliard Ensemble.
Joel Sachs (conductor). Paul Recital Hall, Juilliard School of Music, New York City. Presented under the auspices of the Lincoln Center Festival .

Debus Annette Stricker P.63. Violeta Urmana: She is stronger than destiny. Violeta Urmana is hitting the high notes, literally. One of the world's most exciting singers - for whom alone a trip to Covent Garden's La Forza del Destino is worth the ticket price - she's putting her reputation as one of the world's most sought-after opera singers on the line. Best known as a dark-toned mezzo-soprano, she has recently reinvented herself as a bright-toned soprano soaring to stratospheric heights.

P.65. Mazeppa One of the great pillars of the Mariinsky repertoire, Tchaikovsky’s soaring Mazeppa depicts the legendary 17th-century Ukrainian separatist in both his political and romantic exploits. Taking inspiration from Pushkin’s epic poem Poltava, the opera follows the enigmatic yet aging military leader Mazeppa as he falls in love with Maria, the young daughter of Kochubey, a Cossack judge. Denied the judge’s blessing to marry, Mazeppa and Maria decide to elope, an action that compels Kochubey to reveal Mazeppa’s secret revolutionary plans—a plot to turn the Ukraine into an independent state—to Tsar Peter the Great.

P.67. GERGIEV: Valery Gergiev spends about 250 days a year with the Mariinsky Opera and Ballet. He has been Principal Guest Conductor with the Metropolitan Opera since 1997, Principal Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic (one of his first openings in the West), and has worked with most of the world’s leading orchestras. He works increasingly with the Wiener Philharmoniker and has set up numerous festivals, including Peace to the Caucasus, the Mikkeli in Finland, The Red Sea in Eilat, The Kirov-Philharmonia in London, The Rotterdam Philharmonic-Gergiev Festival, and The White Nights in St. Petersburg.

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P.68. VALERIA GOLINO: Now this is what you call a star entrance. Italian actress Valeria Golino strides through the door of a London hotel suite and bears down on me with a purposeful if amused look in her cobalt blue eyes. As she walks, her mane of wavy, reddish-brown hair flies every which way, and her hips swing meaningfully. Tall and slim, she is swathed in grey; her sweater and tailored slacks do little to dispel hints of curves beneath. She looks ravishing.

P.70. 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.

P.72. Prima Donna: Minnie Driver in Hope Springs: A romantic comedy; a classic adaptation and a Scottish road movie - three new British films all have their charms, even the one featuring Minnie Driver's trademark Prima Donna routine, says Sukhdev Sandhu. Hope springs infernal when it comes to films starring Minnie Driver. All too often she comes across like a spoiled child bawling her eyes out because she's just dropped a lollipop on the floor, a flouncy prima donna kicking up a fuss upon learning that she can't have the restaurant table she wants.

P.73. Mystic River: Self-doubt, ethical compromise and moral ambiguity are on the cards when three childhood friends are reunited following the murder of one's daughter Clint Eastwood's latest movie as a director is a stolid, masculine thriller bearing the lineaments of tragedy - something classical or even biblical.

P.74. Blanchett: She's a Renegade with no Deadline. “Veronica Guerin” Starring: Cate Blanchett. RATING: 2 Stars Movies have always confused journalists with cops, and maybe the comparison isn't far off: Both jobs appear to be about unraveling mysteries, but both are really about paperwork. The difference, however, is that cops get shot more often. Not to belittle those journalists who put their lives on the line daily, but their movie brethren are a Hollywood fantasy of tough-talking, street-walking renegades without deadlines.

P.74. Clooney: It is traditional, when considering the films of the Coen brothers, to remark on their versatility, and their ability to pastiche and corrupt genres, while also remaining true to their chosen form. There is some truth in this notion, but, as a means of understanding their output...

P.75. Time of the Wolf: A couple and their two children flee the city for their country home, only to find it occupied by strangers. The central image of the 1921 film Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, its origins in the Bible and medieval iconography, put before the public a vision of a world on the brink of total destruction. Perhaps the first film to show our civilization reduced to ashes was Things to Come in 1936 which prophesied a Second World War resulting in total annihilation.