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.
P.17.
COVER STORY:
Suzanne Grzanna
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...
 P.21.
SOCIETY AND LIFESTYLE: 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.
BALLET__________________________________________
  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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OPERA________________________________________________________________
P.50.
 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
.
   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.
CINEMA
 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.
 
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