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3.Editorial

OPINIONS 4.DOES LIVE ENTERTAINMENT HURT OR HELP RESTAURANTS? ENTERTAINERS WHO WILL PACK YOUR RESTAURANT, BAR, CABARET...Read

OUTSTANDING PERFORMERS

7.MEET THE WORLD'S MOST ACCOMPLISHED COUPLE DANCERS: CORKY AND SHIRLEY BALLAS, THE WORLD'S CHAMPIONS!! Read

8.WHAT'S HAPPENING:

Phil Collins on Broadway. Tarzan the musical, backed by Disney with music by Phil Collins, is the latest high-profile production to open on New York's Broadway stage. Big claims are being made for this stage version of Tarzan, the jungle warrior who will be celebrating his centenary just a few years from now. Full story

Cannes police set festival strike. Police in Cannes are to stage a two-hour strike during the town's famous film festival later this month. The walkout could disrupt security arrangements at the 12-day gathering, which is expected to attract stars including Tom Hanks and Kirsten Dunst. Hundreds of officers are deployed in the French town during the festival. Full story

MTV is to screen the whole series of controversial cartoon Popetown in Germany despite opposition from Catholic bishops. The music channel broadcast the first episode of the show, which features a Pope on a pogo stick, this month. Full story

9.FILMS THAT GOT AWAY. Summer Film Series starting in July at the Bendheim Performing Arts Center. The Bendheim Performing Arts Center presents the Vivian Milstein Family Film Series Films That Got Away. Here's a second chance to see those critically acclaimed films that left the theatre much too quickly! Each viewing is followed by an open dialogue with host/moderator Michael DiGennaro, Ph.D. Dr. DiGennaro is a distinguished member of the Mamaroneck High School English faculty. Full story

Tom Jones leads Honors

10.Tom Jones has been made a knight in the New Year's Honours list, leading a host of names from the entertainment world. The 65-year-old, whose hits include Delilah and It's Not Unusual, has been honoured for services to music. Read

CABARET DIVA'S PORTRAIT

11.PORTRAIT OF A CABARET DIVA: BARB JUNGR. 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. Full story

INTERVIEWS WITH THE STARS

14.CINDY BENSON: Larger than life on and off stage. "Benson is devastating singing a torch song, turning it into an aching heartbreaker." Bob Harrington - NY POST. "A Comic Gem... A Show Stopper", Wayman Wong - NY DAILY NEWS. "In her one woman show, Cindy Benson is reminiscent of Shirley Maclaine, a musical comedy voice that can pierce to the rafters.", Stephen Holden - NY TIMES. Full story

17.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." Read article and interview.

148. HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT GLORIA LORING? MAXIMILLIEN de LAFAYETTE SPENT HOURS AND HOURS TALKING TO HER...HE WAS AMAZED BY WHAT HE DISCOVERED. Read

CABARET & JAZZ EVENTS

23.CABARET & JAZZ EVENTS. PICKS OF THE MONTH. Maria Friedman, MERCEDES HALL, Klea Blackhurst, Jim Caruso et al...Read

24.JAZZ EVENTS CALENDAR: AT THE SMITHSONIAN. Jazz events and concerts. Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festival. NEW ORLEANS JAZZ FESTIVAL. Read

GOSSIPS

25.McCartney's fans in space treated to concert that's out of this world. It was Good Day Sunshine for the international space station crew. NASA astronaut Bill McArthur and Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev were treated to a live wake-up call of the Beatles classic in a first-ever concert linkup to the space station. On Earth, former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney performed the hit and another song, English Tea, on Saturday night before a cheering crowd as part of his 11-week U.S. tour. Read

25.Hatcher clears her name. Desperate Housewives star did not have sex romps in her VW van. Teri Hatcher has settled with a British tabloid that claimed she had sex romps in her VW van. The Desperate Housewives star also got an apology from the National Enquirer. Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher has accepted libel damages from a British tabloid which claimed she regularly had sex with men in a van outside her home, her lawyer told a court. Read

CABARET BOOKS

26.Berlin Cabaret by Peter Jelavich. Step into Ernst Wolzogen's Motley Theater, Max Reinhardt's Sound and Smoke, Rudolf Nelson's Chat noir, and Friedrich Hollaender's Tingel-Tangel. Enjoy Claire Waldoff's rendering of a lower-class Berliner, Kurt Tucholsky's satirical songs, and Walter Mehring's Dadaist experiments, as Peter Jelavich spotlights Berlin's cabarets from the day the curtain first went up, in 1901, until the Nazi regime brought it down. Read

CABARET TRAGEDY AND REAL LIFE. THE SUCCESS AND THE FAILURE

27.REVISITING THE FIRST LEGENDS AND ICONS OF CABARET: THE CREATORS AND THE PIONEERS. THE RISE AND FALL OF LOUISE WEBER, CREATOR OF THE FRENCH CAN CAN AND QUEEN OF PARIS CABARETS.

THE SUPER STAR OF LE MOULIN ROUGE. THE WEALTHY QUEEN OF MONTMARTRE CABARETS WHO BECAME THE SADDEST SHADOW OF POVERTY AND DIED TOOTHLESS, BROKE AND FORGOTTEN IN THE STREETS OF PARIS. Read the whole story

42.JANE AVRIL: FIRST SUPERSTAR OF WORLD CABARET. She was Aristocrat, Marquise, French-Italian Nobility, Striper, Author, Writer, Philosopher, Humanitarian, Lovers Collector, Queen of The French Can Can, Friend of Oscar Wilde, Verlaine, Mallarmé and the Greatest Poets of the Era…and a French Legend!

You will never meet a woman like Jane Avril. Don’t let the naked appearances fool you. In her own way, she was a saint and a woman with a heart bigger and larger than the world you live in. Read the whole story

AMERICAN LEGENDS IN MEMORIAM:

46.BOB HOPE, THE IMMORTAL (1903-2003) . For a man who played third billing to Siamese twins and trained seals, Bob Hope has become the most recognized profile and talent in the world. And, in the entire history of show business, no individual has traveled so far -- so often -- to entertain so many. Read

53.ANN MILLER. SHE WAS #1 IN THE WORLD. 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. Read

FEMMES FATALES

58.FEMMES 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. Read

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