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"Funny Face” is an American musical released in 1957. The film was written by Leonard Gershe and directed by Stanley Donen. It stars Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, and Kay Thompson. Astaire plays a fashion photographer who "discovers" a beautiful clerk (Audrey Hepburn) in a Greenwich Village philosophy bookstore. The photographer, who works for Quality magazine, convinces the chief editor, played by Kay Thompson, that this girl is the fresh face the publication needs to offer the public. Together…

Even though Georges de Feure, initially Georges Joseph Van Sluijters, can be considered as an artist who had played a major role in the development of French art between 1980 and 1905, a relatively large piece of information about both private life and his career remain unknown. He was born on 6th of November, 1969 in Paris, and had a more or less artistic background: a son of a Dutch architect, Jan Hendrick van Sluijters, and a Belgian mother, whose name is not stated in any of the source.…

of emotion from their lyrics and their fans. I have never had the pleasure of attending one of their concerts, but I regularly listen to their live albums. One concert I would have loved to have attended was in Paris, France in 1994 at Élysée Montmartre (Fitzairn). As a fan, I would say the one of the best part of the Counting Crows are that they experiment lyrically. Adam Duritz, the lead singer, always appears as he is letting the music and the emotions of the crowd decide what lyrics flow…

Starting with the invasion of Normandy in June 1944, France was slowly liberated from their German occupiers by Allied forces. At first, the American GIs were welcomed and celebrated as heroes by the French people. However, as time went on, relations soured and both groups came away from their experiences with negative opinions of each other. Due to various cultural, psychological, and circumstantial misunderstandings, beliefs about each respective group eventually grew into stereotypes. These…

Paris is the capital of France and the largest metropolitan centrum in this country located in the the center of the Paris Basin, on the Seine. Paris is the political, economic and cultural center of France, one of the 10 largest in Europe. There are numerous monuments and tourist attractions, which means that Paris is visited every year by approximately 30 million tourists. The metropolitan area has a population of more than 12 million inhabitants, thus in terms of population Paris…

is often present in plays. Plus, I think people prefer or at least are keener to watch dramatic plays involving war since we can easily relate to the suffering of others, as if it was our own. So, in the cramped but charming little theatre of Montmartre, this theme as well as its impact on people was explored yesterday. The title of the play was Lost and found: Anil’s story. This modification was surely planed out by the critically acclaimed director Nishi De Silva. Both titles are quite…

At the beginning of the story, the narrator describes the situations in which he met a man named C. Auguste Dupin. Both were searching for the same book at the same library. It was in the Rue Montmartre, in Paris. They became friends and decided to share the expenses of a residence together in Paris. The narrator then illustrates the powers that Dupin possess. They are brilliant powers of analysis. Once a day, the narrator and Dupin read newspaper headlines. They found a headline about a…

So they bought a very old dancehall, La Reine Blanche to compete with one of the city’s most legendary and oldest dance halls, The Elysee-Montmartre in the heart of run-down Pigalle. They were very determined to build and renovate it to an exotic personality so that it is not similar to the others. Oller and Zider invested all of their own fortunes into their building (Veron, 1). The Moulin…

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story, “Babylon Revisited,” the protagonist, Charlie Wales, despite his many flaws, is a man whom readers can’t help but like. Nevertheless, it is surprising that Charlie can be such a likeable character if the reader considers his past issues with alcohol, his possible involvement in the death of his wife, and the fact that he deserted Honoria. Charlie deals with his inability to escape the past and the Ritz bar, which symbolizes his spiritual home. Although…

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