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Jean-Claude Petit (sculptor)
Jean-Claude Petit (born 14 November 1943) is a French composer and arranger, born in Vaires-sur-Marne. After accompanying jazzmen in his childhood, Petit went to the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied harmony and counterpoint. He did the string arrangements for Mink DeVille's ''Le Chat Bleu'' album, as well as orchestrating the backing parts to some French pop singles in the mid-to-late 1960s, including those of Erick Saint-Laurent and yé-yé girls Christine Pilzer and Monique Thubert. In 1973 he composed ''La leçon de Michette''. The song was popular in Italy due to its use in the soundtrack of a well-known ''Carosello'' (the Italian TV spot broadcast) from 1973 to 1976. As a music ghostwriter for director Michel Magne, Petit did not get credit for his film scores until he was 36. 1979 saw his first major film soundtrack commission (Alexandro Jodorowsky's ''Tusk (1980 film), Tusk''), but he had been releasing solo records at least a decade earlier, including at least ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaires-sur-Marne
Vaires-sur-Marne (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Seine-et-Marne Departments of France, department in the Île-de-France Regions of France, region, Northern France. Vaires-sur-Marne is at the western end of the LGV Est high-speed railway, reaching Vendenheim (near Strasbourg) in the east. Vaires–Torcy station has rail connections to Meaux and Paris. It was spectacularly blown up in John Frankenheimer's 1964 film ''The Train (1964 film), The Train''. It was one of the venues for the 2024 Summer Olympics. Demographics Inhabitants of Vaires-sur-Marne are called ''Vairois'' (masculine) and ''Vairoises'' (feminine) in French. See also *Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department References External links Official site {{DEFAULTSORT:Vairessurmarne Communes of Seine-et-Marne Venues of the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic rowing venues Olympic canoeing venues Olympic kayaking venues Seine-et-Marne communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toto Cutugno
Salvatore "Toto" Cutugno (; 7 July 1943 – 22 August 2023) was an Italian Italian popular music, pop singer-songwriter, musician, and television presenter. He was best known for his worldwide hit song, "", released on his 1983 album of the same title. Cutugno also won the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 held in Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia, with the song "", for which he wrote both the lyrics and music. He has been described as "one of the most popular singers in Italy and a symbol of Italian melody abroad", as well as "one of the most popular Italian performers on a global scale" and "one of the most successful Italian songwriters of all time", selling over 100 million records worldwide. Early life Toto Cutugno was born on 7 July 1943 in Tendola, a borough of Fosdinovo, Lunigiana, Tuscany, to a Sicilian sea marshal father from Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto and a housewife mother from Tuscany. Shortly after his birth the family moved to the nearby city of La Spezia, Liguria. Career Cutug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uranus (1990 Film)
''Uranus'' is a 1990 French comedy-drama film with Gérard Depardieu about post-World War II recovery in a small French village, as the controlling French Communist Party tries to dispose of Pétain loyalists. It was directed and written by Claude Berri and Arlette Langmann, based on a novel by Marcel Aymé. The film was entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. Cast * Michel Blanc as Gaigneux * Gérard Depardieu as Léopold Lajeunesse * Jean-Pierre Marielle as Archambaud * Philippe Noiret as Watrin * Gérard Desarthe as Maxime Loin * Michel Galabru as Monglat * Danièle Lebrun as Mrs. Archambaud * Fabrice Luchini as Jourdan * Daniel Prévost as Rochard * Myriam Boyer as Mrs. Gaigneux * Ticky Holgado as Mégrin, lawyer * Vincent Grass as Ledieu * Florence Darel as Miss Archambaud * Yves Afonso Yves Afonso (13 February 1944 – 21 January 2018) was a French actor of Portuguese descent. He was born in Saulieu in the Côte-d'Or ''département''. Since his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manon Des Sources (1986 Film)
''Manon des sources'' (; meaning ''Manon of the Spring'') is a 1986 French language historical drama, period film directed by Claude Berri, as the second part of a diptych with ''Jean de Florette'', released the same year. Both are the adaptation of Marcel Pagnol’s 1963 two-volume novel ''The Water of the Hills'', itself an adaptation of his own 1952 film ''Manon des Sources (1952 film), Manon of the Spring'', which became the novel’s second part. The two films are ranked No. 60 in ''Empire (magazine), Empire'' magazine's "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema" in 2010. Plot Ten years after the events of ''Jean de Florette'', Jean’s daughter Manon lives in the Provence, Provençal countryside near Les Romarins, the farm that her father once owned. She has taken up residence with an elderly Piedmontese squatter couple who teach her to live off the land, tending to a herd of goats and hunting for birds and rabbits. Ugolin Soubeyran, also called Galinette by his uncle César, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean De Florette
''Jean de Florette'' () is a 1986 period drama film directed by Claude Berri. It was followed by '' Manon des sources'', released the same year. Both are the adaptation of Marcel Pagnol’s 1963 two-part novel '' The Water of the Hills'', with the second part also being adapted from Pagnol's original 1952 film '' Manon of The Spring''. Berri's version was the first attempt at adapting the whole saga, including the first part, ''Jean de Florette'', which was originally written as a prequel to the novelization of ''Manon of The Spring''. The story takes place in rural Provence in the 1920s, where two local farmers plot to trick a newcomer out of his newly inherited property. The film starred three of France's most prominent actors – Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, who won a BAFTA and a César award for his performance, and Yves Montand in one of his last roles. The film was shot back to back with ''Manon des sources'', over a period of seven months. At the time the most ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tranches De Vie
''Slices of Life'' (''Tranches de vie'') is a 1985 French comedy-sci fi film directed by François Leterrier. It is based on Gérard Lauzier's comic strip of the same name. Plot The film is a series of sketches Cast * Laura Antonelli as Monica Belli * Michel Boujenah as Michel Lambert * Josiane Balasko as Madame Dupuis * Jean-Pierre Cassel as The Earl of Forcheville * Christian Clavier as Charles-Henri * Marie-Anne Chazel as Béatrice * Ginette Garcin as Béatrice's mother * Roland Giraud as Jean * Pierre Mondy as The President * Gérard Jugnot as Malounian * Jean-Pierre Darroussin as The journalist * Annie Grégorio as The journalist * Daniel Prévost as TV Host * Pierre Richard as Dubois * Barbara Nielsen as Marianna * Martin Lamotte as Alain * Jacques Dynam as Alex * Anémone as Cécile * Jean Rougerie as Cécile's father * Michel Galabru as The farmer * Laurence Badie as The farmer * Audrey Dana as The woman in the bed * Hubert Deschamps as The prisoner * Luis Rego ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manon Of The Spring Ver2
''Manon'' () is an ''opéra comique'' in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel '' L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut'' by the Abbé Prévost. It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 19 January 1884, with sets designed by Eugène Carpezat (act 1), Auguste Alfred Rubé and Philippe Chaperon (acts 2 and 3), and Jean-Baptiste Lavastre (act 4). Prior to Massenet's work, Halévy (''Manon Lescaut'', ballet, 1830) and Auber (''Manon Lescaut'', opéra comique, 1856) had used the subject for musical stage works. Massenet also wrote a one-act sequel to ''Manon'', ''Le portrait de Manon'' (1894), involving the Chevalier des Grieux as an older man. ''Manon'' is Massenet's most popular and enduring opera and, having "quickly conquered the world's stages", it has maintained an important place in the repertory since its creation. It is the quintessential example of the charm and vita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized in letter case, lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events and styles related to the music industry. Its Billboard charts, music charts include the Billboard Hot 100, Hot 100, the Billboard 200, 200, and the Billboard Global 200, Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in various music genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm and operates several television shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyrano De Bergerac (1990 Film)
''Cyrano de Bergerac'' is a 1990 French period comedy-drama film directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau and based on the 1897 play of the same name by Edmond Rostand, adapted by Jean-Claude Carrière and Rappeneau. It stars Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet and Vincent Perez. The film was a co-production between companies in France and Hungary. The film is the first feature film version of Rostand's original play in colour, and the second theatrical film version of the play in the original French. It is also considerably more lavish and more faithful to the original than previous film versions of the play. The film had 4,732,136 admissions in France. The film and the performance of Gérard Depardieu won numerous awards, notably 10 of the César Awards of 1991. Subtitles are used for the non-French market; the English-language version uses Anthony Burgess's translation of the text, which uses five-beat lines with a varying number of syllables and a regular couplet rhyming scheme, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Return Of The Musketeers
''The Return of the Musketeers'' is a 1989 film adaptation loosely based on the novel '' Twenty Years After'' (1845) by Alexandre Dumas. It is the third Musketeers film directed by Richard Lester, following 1973's ''The Three Musketeers'' and 1974's '' The Four Musketeers''. Like the other two films, the screenplay was written by George MacDonald Fraser. The character of Mordaunt, Milady de Winter's son in the original novel, is replaced by Milady's daughter, called Justine de Winter. Several cast members from the first two reprised their roles in this one. Jean-Pierre Cassel, who played Louis XIII in the original films, has a cameo appearance as Cyrano de Bergerac. While filming in September 1988, character actor Roy Kinnear died following an on-camera accident in which he fell off a horse. His role was completed by using a body double, filmed from the rear, and dubbed-in lines from a voice artist. Plot Twenty years after the events of ''The Four Musketeers'', Cardinal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Prisoner
''The Prisoner'' is a British television series created by Patrick McGoohan. McGoohan portrays Number Six (The Prisoner), Number Six, an unnamed British intelligence agent who is abducted and imprisoned in a The Village (The Prisoner), mysterious coastal village after resigning from his position. The allegory, allegorical plotlines of the series contain elements of science fiction, Psychological thriller, psychological drama, and spy fiction. It was produced by Everyman Films for distribution by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment. A single series of 17 episodes was filmed between September 1966 and January 1968, with exterior location filming primarily taking place in the Welsh seaside village of Portmeirion. Interior scenes were filmed at MGM-British Studios in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. The series was first broadcast in Canada beginning on 5 September 1967, in the UK on 29 September 1967, and in the United States on 1 June 1968. Although the show was sold as a thriller in the mou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
