Iconic French singer Françoise Hardy dies aged 80. Getty Images Francoise Hardy-Getty Images. Hardy was still a teenager when her melancholic love songs first captivated the music scene One of France's best-loved singer-songwriters, Françoise Hardy, has...
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Hattie McDaniel. Despite the fact Clark Gable played a joke on her during the filming of "Gone with the Wind" (1939) (he put real brandy in the decanter instead of iced tea during the Bonnie Blue birth celebration scene), Hattie McDaniel and Gable were...
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King Royal Family Liechtenstein Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein and Angela Gisela Brown married on this day in 2000 at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer in New York City! The bride designed her own dress and wore her mother-in-law’s Kinsky Honeysuckle...
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“When times are difficult, great music is needed”: Finnish musical force Esa-Pekka Salonen on his Polar Music Prize win. By Clare McInerney, May 21, 2024. Photo: Hiroyukiito. As he prepares to board the same flight from New York as fellow 2024 Polar Music...
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On February 19, 1965, Lauren Anderson, the first female African American principal dancer in the United States and, at the time, the world’s only black prima ballerina heading a major ballet company, was born in Houston, Texas. When she was six years...
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