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Alicia Augello Cook, known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, music producer, and philanthropist. A classically-trained pianist, Keys was composing songs by age 12. Life of Alicia Keys History OF Alicia Keys Songs in A Minor Sing with public Artistry Legacy...

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television, and theater. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history, she was noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic.

"Né en 1929, à Montréal, Paolo Noël connaît une enfance bouleversante. A l'âge de quatre ans, alors que son père est arrêté pour violence conjugale et que sa mère doit lutter pour sa vie, les autorités l'envoient à l'orphelinat, ainsi que ses frère et soeur. Arraché à ce qu'il...

Varda Etienne ne s'est jamais sentie à l'aise dans la normalité. C'est la raison pour laquelle elle a toujours eu au fond d'elle cette envie insatiable, voire boulimique, de provoquer. A la télévision et à la radio, elle s'est montrée bien plus provocante qu'aucune autre femme au Québec avant...

Né à Montréal en 1943, Jean-Guy Moreau ne se destinait pas à l'imitation. Bien jeune, toutefois, des rencontres déterminantes, particulièrement celle de son grand ami Robert Charlebois, ont fait dévier sa route. Grâce au regard à la fois sensible et critique de sa fille Sophie, nous découvrons...

Introduction This eBook is in honour of Graham Smith (15th June 1935 - 15th June 2011) who was known locally as The Egg and Sausage Artist in the St Helens area of Merseyside. It gives an insight into the man and his work. Having met this fine artist with a wonderful sense of humour and becoming...

Léon Bakst was a Russian painter and scene- and costume designer. After graduating from gymnasium, he studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts as a non-credit student, because he had failed the entry, working part-time as a book illustrator, though, he would eventually be admitted into...

Will Smith is an actor, film producer and rapper. Will Smith rose from modest beginnings to become one of the biggest actors on the planet.   He first gained recognition as a rapper alongside friend DJ Jazzy Jeff. Smith earned the first Grammy ever won for the newly formed Rap...

• Plus da 300 notes cliquables • Typographie soignée, orthographe vérifié • Mise en page professionnelle Biographie de Paul Verlaine par François Porché, poète, critique littéraire et historien. Le biographie entend être...

Iconic graphic designer and Academy Award--winning filmmaker Saul Bass (1920--1996) defined an innovative era in cinema. His title sequences for films such as Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) and North by Northwest...

Complying with "Almost Famous," Deschanel's choices expanded, enabling her to develop exactly what would definitely become a continuous preference for individual flicks. Showing up in "Manic" (2001), she played the sullen, troubled resident of a psychological facility and a fellow...

Walt Disney was a man who had both an incredible artistic talent and a powerful imagination. His career as an artist began when he was just seven years old, living with his family in Marceline, Missouri. You may know his name, but perhaps you've wondered, "What's so great about him?" This...

Albert Thibaudet est un génie de la critique, un maître qui a chroniqué dans la Revue des Deux Mondes, principalement entre les deux guerres mondiales. Grand et fin connaisseur de Flaubert, il présente dans ce livre, paru initialement en 1922 et remanié en...

Lampenfieber wird ähnlich schlimm wahrgenommen, wie die Angst vor politischen Unruhen, Krieg, Tod oder gefährlichen Krankheiten. Das hat eine wissenschaftliche Studie eindeutig belegt. Lampenfieber ist die größte aller Ängste überhaupt. Viele Schauspieler, Sänger,...