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LA FEMME MAGAZINE. EXTRA

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tEDITORIAL 10

t1.WOMAN ARTIST OF THE MONTH: THE MAGICAL UNIVERSE OF HEATHER CORINA.14 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.

t2.LIFESTYLE, POWER AND FORTUNE.30 1.The world's richest women: The Billionaires.

Marilyn Carlson. She runs one of the biggest privately held companies in America, Carlson Companies, which she took over as chairman and chief executive when her father, founder Curt Carlson died in 1999. Marilyn, 61, and her sister Barbara Carlson Gage each own half of the $31 billion (2000 sales) company. As a marketing, travel and hospitality company, Carlson has been hit by the economic downturn and Sept. 11 terror attacks...

2. Hottest faces and bodies. 36.The new list of women who made it big time this year. The new list of the most attractive and hottest faces includes a puzzling variety of stars, celebrities, media personalities, as well as female authors with impressive academic credentials, ranging from super model  Nikki Visser to Dr. Monica Crowley, the most brilliant and prettiest face of the American media.   Beauty and brains are blending in unison. Although, they have different personalities and colorful tempers, almost all of them make millions in so many different ways and means. 

t3.LA CRÈME DE LA CRÈME  1. Renate Aller: 39. 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.

t4.WOMEN IN THE ARTS. 47 2.  Judy Hintz Cox: America’s first lady of progressive minimalism. Cox’s paintings are elegantly and intelligently composed, structured and balanced, yet, she is not restrained by an artistic dogmatic analysis.

t5.WOMEN IN MUSIC. 49  

1.   It seems everybody wants to be a jazz singer nowadays. People of all ages turn up at 'open mic' sessions to perform their party piece. But why this sudden eruption of would-be vocalists? Maybe because singing looks easier than playing an instrument, although it isn't. Or maybe it's because there are so many good jazz singers in Britain to inspire them. There's Stacey Kent, Tina May, Claire Martin, Clare Teal, Barb Jungr, Anita Wardell, Sheena Davis...

t6.WORLD HAUTE COUTURE. 61

FASHION 2005

1. Despite the doe-eyed models, miles of muslin and yards of silk, the common man managed to catch and keep the spotlight at Brazil's biggest designer event, Sao Paulo Fashion Week. The watchwords at this year's event, were sales and jobs. An entire floor of the Sao Paulo Biennale Pavilion was transformed into a fashion salon, a polite word for a beehive of functional conference rooms where sales...

t7.NEW YORK THEATER: THE NEW BOHEMIA: A TRIUMPH! 69

The show revives the delights extravaganza of 1920s and 1930s Berlin, Munich, Paris and intellectual-erotic cabaret noir of the Mata Hari era. You can call it the art deco or art nouveau of the New York new theater direction...

t8.STARS, STYLE AND SIGNATURE. 65

1. "Today we know the price of everything and the value of nothing." Oscar Wilde said that and he hadn't even seen In Style magazine. In Style is the drop-dead worst magazine in print. It presents attractive objects in dizzying abundance -- fine, that's its job -- but the way it associates beautiful design with cheap unearned celebrity is wrong and dangerous. Even I feel fretful after I read it, and I've never run up a credit-card debt in my life. How many women go bankrupt after reading In Style?

t9.WOMEN GENIUSES OF DANCE AND BALLET. 70

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...

t10.AMERICAN MEDIA. 85 THE 25 MOST LIKED &TRUSTED   CABLE TV FEMALE PERSONALITIES IN THE US. They are the most trusted, respected and liked personalities of the American tube. What is their secret?.............................

t11.UNDISCOVERED GREAT TALENTS: DIVAS IN THE MAKING. 89

It is not an easy task to write about Sophia Dalle, nor to engage into a dialogue with this macabre and translucent Diva in the making. She lives in a world we are familiar with, and in a cosmos where only most daring thoughts, phantasmagoric visions and idealism blend and fade in. She is idealistic, a spiritual chic and abundant with multidimensional musical talent. She interrupts you all the time, she rushes to freeze and free words of wisdom, you wish you could totally understand, and she challenges your intellect, even though, she disdains ivy league cum laude graduates who analyze everything in life.

t12.MOVIETHEQUE EDITOR'S CHOICE.  DVD Newest Releases.90

t13.THE HOLLYWOOD FILE. 91 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?

S15.DEAR PEGGY. 101The syndicated "Dear Peggy" Column. INCLUDES:

THE 100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES.    USA POWERFUL WOMEN (National Influence). AMERICAN POWERFUL WOMEN ON CAPITOL HILL.   AMERICAN WOMEN OF REGIONAL  POWERS.  AMERICAN WOMEN WITH ENORMOUS LEGAL AUTHORITY.   AMERICAN WOMEN WITH POWERFUL INFLUENCE IN BUSINESS, LABOR AND  LOBBYING.  POWERFUL AMERICAN WOMEN IN EDUCATION AND  AND CONSULTING.  POWERFUL AMERICAN WOMEN IN RELIGION.  POWERFUL WOMEN IN NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS.   POWERFUL AMERICAN WOMEN IN HEALTH CARE.  POWERFUL AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE MEDIA.  POWERFUL AMERICAN WOMEN IN THE ARTS AND LETTERS.                                                              

VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY'S LESBIAN DAUGHTER. FABULOUS MEN AND WOMEN OF NEW YORK HIGH SOCIETY.     THE 100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN IN THE WORLD. 10 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN IN FASHION...And much more...  

t16.DIVAS. 126 The New Wave of  Divas and Femmes Fatales: Barb Jungr, Alison England, Jennifer Terran, Sophia Dalle, Cheryl Bliss...

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t17.FILM. 130 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. Our great-grandparents were rather less prudish than we might imagine. Decades before pornography became big business, naughty French people were making dirty films for the fun of it. In The Good Old Naughty Days, a collection of 12 silent films from the earliest years of the 20th century, nuns, priests, teachers - even a dog - play out sexual dramas in a wide variety of inventive positions, locations and logistical arrangements...

t20.WOMEN GENIUSES. 148 Mary Phelps Jacob, Inventor of the Bra Design. In 1913, the first modern brassiere to be awarded a patented was invented by a New York socialite named Mary Phelps Jacob. Mary had just purchased a sheer evening gown for one of her social events. At that time, the accepted undergarments were corsets, stiffened with whaleback bones and steel rods. Mary found that the "whalebone-spocked" out visibly around the plunging neckline and under the sheer fabric, so with two silk hankerchiefs and some pink ribbon, the first bra was invented.

t1.Lyne Tremblay is de facto, Canada's most sophisticated, elegant and captivating cabaret Diva and  "Femme Fatale". 157 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...

t22.CABARET: STARS AND LEGENDS. 162

t2.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...

t23.ODDITIES AND CONTROVERSIES. 165

t1.Too pretty and too sexy for Italian television. After decades of weather bulletins presented by military colonels in full uniform, Italian television got its first weather girls last September. But the outlook does not seem too bright for the first to hit the airwaves, a former Miss Italy. She has already run into trouble for being too sexy. Italian TV is infamous for its scantily-clad girls, who are a regular feature - dancing, presenting or just looking pretty - usually alongside a much older, less attractive male presenter. But Eleonora Pedron, 21, proved there is such a thing as too sexy for Italian TV when she was suspended for doing a rather raunchy magazine spread in Capital magazine, sporting only a G-string.

t2. HOWARD STERN VS. OPRAH. 167 The American tabloid magazine reported that on March 18, millions of Americans watched an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, during which an O, The Oprah Magazine writer described in jawdropping detail, the latest fads in teen sex. Viewers learned that a "tossed salad," had little to do with healthy eating, but instead referred to oral sex to the anus. The guest went on to describe "rainbow" parties -- gatherings at which a gaggle of lipstick- wearing girls provide oral sex to one or more males. For this, declares shock jock Howard Stern, 50, Oprah should come under the same scrutiny as he has over his notoriously raunchy broadcasts. Since 1990, the Federal Communications Commission has levied fines, totaling close to $2 million, against Howard's show...

t24. INTERNATIONAL MALE ARTIST OF THE MONTH. 168 Daniel Iliescu. The esthetic serenity invades the tumultuous and bursting emotions of this Romanian artist. Should the transparent elegance of his form invades his complex intellect, Iliescu would not hesitate to release his passion into infinite space and revolting visions, only known to his unrestrained inner cosmos. Iliescu's art is intense. Yet, a flair of finesse camouflages this wondering temerity...

t25.ENTERTAINMENT/NIGHTLIFE: NEW YORK 12 BEST SPOTS. 169 The most fun places in New York City. The best shows in town. The first class service. The fabulous decor, etc...We have visited New York's fancy and underground entertainment world, and this is what we found for your entertainment and pleasure...

t26.MUSIC: Please read the EXTRA ISSUE OF LA FEMME. Thank you!

t27.PERSONALITY OF THE MONTH: Please read the EXTRA ISSUE OF LA FEMME. Thank you!

t28.SHOWBIZ:Please read the EXTRA ISSUE OF  LA FEMME. Thank you!

t29.SOCIETY AND LIFESTYLE. 178 Women of power and talent. Are these women perfect, loveable or simply tough-cookies? Hottest and Most Talented Women of the Year. (THE 66 MILLION DOLLAR WOMEN). Talent, fame and not much education, class or enlightenment would suffice to make you a millionaire actress. Some times, talent has nothing to do with how much an actress deserves, should earn or profit from the box office. Luck is primordial. Big names bring money to Hollywood and that’s...

t30.GOSSIPS AND BUZZ BUZZ. MANY MANY STORIES. 193

WHAT'S HAPPENING OUT THERE? Alexandra Kerry loomed out of the Cannes night like a Magritte nude, leaving the paparazzi pondering; "Did she dress in the dark? Was her postmodern take on visible panty line and Mister Magoo chic a ghastly accident — like an errant trail of loo paper — or a cunning ploy to lure lenses?". Whatever, it worked. "I have been labeled like I'm this angry girl - I'm like, this rebel, I'm like, punk, and I am SO not any of them...

t32.THE MOST ELEGANT, THE BEST AND THE WORST DRESSED STARS IN AMERICA. 235

"You have one minute to impress, 30 seconds to catch the moment and just 3 seconds to make a lasting impression." Once, wrote Maximillien de Lafayette in his book  on world protocol and etiquette. And how you can you impress by catching the moment in less than 3 seconds without saying a word? Simple: Dress to kill. Dress for Success! Be Elegant and Refined. Elegance is the key.  Remember, nowadays stars don't create fashion anymore as did the femmes fatales of the golden era of Hollywood, thanks to Valentino...

t33.EVENTS, FESTIVALS AND WORLD SHOWS: Please read the EXTRA ISSUE OF FEMME. Thank you!

t34..SUPERSTARS AND LEGENDS: MAXIMILLIEN INTERVIEWS THE DIVAS. 249

t1. GLORIA LORING. 249 Read the article and the interview with Diva Gloria Loring. 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. 260 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...

t35.THE WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT AND STARS: HOT GOSSIPS AND LATEST NEWS. 265

Anna Nicole Smith: Another busy celeb in the news this week deserves all the extra attention now that she has dropped most of her mind-numbing meds and about a ton of weight. The new and improved Smith has been chosen to present the Come Back of the Year Award at the 38th Annual Victor Sports Awards...

t36.ENTERTAINMENT: DRAMA. COMEDY. SOAP. REALITY TV. TELEVISION SHOWS AND NEWS.270 ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT: This critically acclaimed comedy stars Jason Bateman as a widower wants to quit the family business and move to Arizona with his 13-year-old son, but gets pulled back when an accounting scandal freezes...

t37.MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS REVIEWS. 274 The Must See Exhibitions. From Delacroix to Matisse: Drawings from the Algiers Museum of Art. The Algiers Museum of Fine Arts houses a collection of  8,000 works, dating from the 14th to the 20th century,  including a Print Department with nearly 1,750 drawings and engravings. A selection of around 60 French drawings, from the 19th and early 20th centuries, will give the public an  idea of the wealth and diversity of this collection that is little-known in France. On the one hand, the exhibition will present works by “Orientalist” artists such as Chassériau, Decamps...

t38.WORLD MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS REVIEWS.281 THE TREASURES OF THE 18th CENTURY AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM. The 18th-century Enlightenment was one of the great revolutionary moments in human history.

 t40. AN EXTRA EDITION OF LA FEMME MAGAZINE APPEARS WEEKLY ON SATURDAY MORNING. PLEASE CHECK IT UP! NEWS AROUND THE CLOCK AND FASCINATING PEOPLE TO READ ABOUT. Including:

1- Interview with Diva Amanda McBroom. 2- Interview with Grande Dame Raquel Bitton. 3- Interview with the great Barb Jungr, Britain's first lady of cabaret. 4- Interview with Diva Alison England, the new world opera sensation.

41.HOT NEWS FROM THE WIRES 297

Spears marries in secret ceremony. She has married her fiancé, dancer Kevin Federline, in a surprise ceremony, Entertainment Tonight reported Sunday on its website. The wedding was held Saturday evening at a private home in the Studio City area with 20 to 30 people attending. Pop diva Madonna made a midnight pilgrimage to a Jerusalem cemetery early Sunday, holding a mystical candlelit ceremony at the grave of a Jewish sage. Pop starlet Jessica Simpson has been cast as Daisy Duke in the film version of The Dukes of Hazzard, and her husband is pretty excited about it. "I was a big fan of Daisy Duke. Growing up as a kid I never missed an episode of The Dukes of Hazzard," Nick Lachey told reporters Tuesday, according to AP Radio.  Yaffa is making waves in New York City. She calls herself the "Girl from Sinai". She wants you to remember what she told everybody: "I am Jewish, but not Israeli. I am from Sinai."

 Sigourney Weaver in a white PVC bustier and thigh-high boots? It almost happened. So explained X-Men 2 screenwriter Dan Harris at a press conference to promote his Toronto International Film Festival entry, Imaginary Heroes. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is full of visions of the dark, soaring New York cityscape, dogfights in the sky and the majestic Himalayan mountains.  Judy Blume, whose candid children's books have attracted millions of readers and a wave of censors, has been named this year's winner of an honorary National Book Award for contributions to American letters.

t43. THE MEDIA BIG NAMES GAME. 312 Keep on flipping and changing stations. You are not going to miss a thing! American media is a contemplative product. A blend of autocratic ideology and individualistic comprehension of events. American journalists including an avalanche of TV commentators and talk show hosts seem to know everything. Yes sir, they talk about every imaginable topic.

t44. CINEMA. 315 A movie which depicts Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's softer side has topped the German box office. The Downfall attracted 480,000 viewers in its opening weekend, distributor Constantin Film said on Monday. The film shows Hitler's humanity as well as his diabolical nature, as it depicts the final 12 days of his life. The DVDs of the original Star Wars trilogy have broken a UK sales record after one day of release. Internet retailer Amazon received more than 85,000 pre-orders for The Star Wars Trilogy, beating the 50,000 high of Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

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... Read the full article in the Extra Edition.

tFAMOUS GOSSIPS AND  INSULTS ABOUT FAMOUS MEN:  About Larry King: "Do you mind Larry,  if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad." Donald Trump. About Winston Churchill: "Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. "  George Bernard Shaw talking to  Winston Churchill. And here is the reply of the British Prime Minister: "Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend second - if there is one. "About Pat Buchanan: "He is racist, he's homophobic, he's xenophobic and he's a sexist. He's the perfect Republican candidate." Bill Press. About Ernest Borgnine: "Oh my God, look at you, Ernest, anyone else hurt in the accident?" Don Rickles. Read the full article... Read the article in the WEEKEND JOURNAL.

tMOST FAMOUS PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES. Read the article in the WEEKEND JOURNAL.

t WHAT WENT WRONG IN IRAQ? PRESIDENT BUSH'S 20 MISTAKES BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER INVADING IRAQ