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THE ATLANTIC HERALD TRIBUNE IS AN INDEPENDENT MONTHLY MAGAZINE PUBLISHED BY THE MONTHLY HERALD PUBLISHING HOUSE INT'L.

THE ATLANTIC HERALD TRIBUNE Corporate Editor-in-Chief: Ruth Cohen-Sielberg Senior Correspondent: Peggy North  International Senior Correspondent/UK-USA Bureau Chief: J.D. Lacroix.                                                                  Executive Managing Editor: Rhea Gainsbourg.  Director of Publications: Rex Townsend.   Editorial Staff: Howard Stein, Leslie Carpenter, Lucie Harrison, Michelle Innocente, Evelyne Berlioz, Nicole Gambini, Josephine Haddad, Perry Hamilton, Armand Tedross, Alain Charnier, Mel Roberts, Al  Lee-Thornton. Contributors: Jeff Downey, George Petrakis, Dea Gobi, B. Stevenson, Harvey Milford, Danny Allenberg, Stephen Reiss, Ella Hammerstein, Selim Al-Basha, Rafi Zogheib, Researchers: Dr. Jules Marin, Eva Santorini, Louise Reims, Solange Gasparelli, Eleonore Rosenbladt-Pratt. Correspondents/Reporters: Joelle Bouchard, Rima Halabi, Suzanne Torossian, Robert Plisson, Trevor Steelton, Louis Rayess, Amir Nejad, Annie Manoukian, Rory Gibbons, Mel Windsor, Arnorld Andrews, Chris Marens, Georgia Lubova, Annita Gasparesz, Jay Davenport, Maha Arida, Patty Fordham, Jayson Maynard.  Executive Art and Graphics Editors: Fabiola Rossi, Peggy-North, Emanuelle Leroy. Germaine Constand, Esther Spielberg, Rebecca Guttenberg, Ed Stevens. Photography: Harout Haroutian, Irma Rosenberg. Advertisement Manager: David Bernstein. Corporate Senior Editor: Nigel Huntington Publisher: Alexander Campton Chairman of the Board: Charles Hamilton Cadzow Corporate Managing Editor: David Nye

 

 

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PART TWO OF TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

11-ART______________________________________________________________________50-51

ART: Power of art in society. All societies and cultures have limits on what is acceptable behavior and what is allowable in the way of personal expression, yet the arts remain a relatively free space in which to create more complicated forms of public interaction. The world is open to integration and interpretation more than ever before and the effect that art has on us as individuals and as a society is now reaching beyond the borders of any given culture.  Mass communication -- via television, the Internet, and cinema, along with cultural syncretism and networking between nations and even continents-- has enabled us as human beings to see beyond ourselves and our own boundaries. Art can have an impact on consciousness. It allows for ways of looking at and thinking about life that may not be tolerated in the social and political paradigm of a given society, and this freedom to converse and reflect allows artist

12-READERS' CHOICE_________________________________________________________52-54

Readers: Dear Erica: One of the most appealing aspects of your journal is the freedom you give your readers to freely express their opinion; a noble commodity  and opportunity rarely given to readers. I am very fond of cabaret music. My taste is eclectic and demanding, meaning the personality of performers should be at the level of their performance. Great singers are usually great from within. Their character and personality add to the quality of their performance. We like artists who are down to earth and humble. I read your magazine with joy and excitement because it is unbiased and comprehensive in all its news coverage and feature articles. Having said this, I would like to go one step further if I may and ask you to grant me the opportunity to express my opinion about a first class singers who are the personification of ex...

13- ART HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION____________________________________________55-58

Art History: Armenian first coins minted in bronze were issued by the Armenian kings of Sophene.

14- BALLET____________________________________________________________________59

Ballet: The Ballet Boyz may be new to the business of artistic direction, but their latest show puts them alongside dance's most grown-up players. After just two years of running George Piper Dances, William Trevitt and Michael Nunn have a repertoire any major company would covet, along with an ensemble of world-class dancers. GPD take the stage with a justified air of entitlement - though it's good to see a chipper edge of adventure still marking their company style.   Dominating their new program is Mesmerics, expanded from the short trio Christopher Wheeldon choreographed for GPD last year. The work has lost none of its compressed intensities as Wheeldon accumulates movement upon the building blocks of Philip Glass's hypnotic cello score.

15-CINEMA__________________________________________________________________60-62

 

Cinema: Veronica Guerin. In 1996 an Irish journalist named Veronica Guerin pushed the drug peddlers of Dublin a little too hard. She was shot dead in her car on a country road, and became a national hero. A troubling kind of hero, to be sure. She left behind her husband and small child, who had been endangered by her reckless prodding at powerful criminals. But she also shamed the country into cracking down on them. Seven years later, the elite of Dublin loudly applauded Australian actress Cate Blanchett's performance in the film Veronica Guerin. Not everybody liked the way the story was told. But they loved Cate Blanchett's flawless imitation of a Dublin accent. They loved the ferocity of the performance. "Imagine that," says producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who took time out from his customary bloated action films (Pearl Harbor, Top Gun, Beverley Hills Cop) to make a film about a woman who "should be remembered." "With Veronica's mom and dad and son in the audience, Cate got a ten minute ovation. For a young Australian girl to fool the Irish is really something." Only a powerful Hollywood producer could think of Blanchett, who has a razor-edged intellect and a prodigious talent, as a "young Australian girl" or imagine that her intent was to "fool the Irish."

16-NEWS OF THE STARS AND THE FAMOUS______________________________________63-67

Stars: They were followed by the smash hit My Best Friend's Wedding and 1999's Notting Hill and Runaway Bride. Her $20m salary for Erin Brockovich - rivaled only by fellow actress Cameron Diaz - further demonstrated Roberts's value to movie studios. Although The Mexican, in which she starred opposite Brad Pitt, was not a huge success, Ocean's Eleven, which reunited her with Erin Brockovich director Steven Soderbergh topped the US box office. Her work in front of the camera was not all that kept her busy during this period. Roberts also dated actor Benjamin Bratt for three and a half years, but they split in May 2001, immediately following her Oscar triumph. ..Pop singer Britney Spears has cancelled a promotional tour of South America and Europe in the wake of the attacks on the United States. The star, who was on the last flight to leave America for Australia before the attacks took place, will return to be with her family. ..In his autobiography Barris claimed he was a CIA agent, but many have cast doubt on the story. Clooney said he decided to take him at his word. The star said: "I've asked Chuck about the specifics of the story and he would look me in the eyes and not say anything. I believe it is Chuck's story. "I believe it was important for him to tell it and fun for us because the story is so wild." Barris is regarded as one of the most influential figures in TV entertainment, creating seminal game shows The Dating Game and The Gong Show. "I grew up in a world of bad television and I was around game show sets during that exact same period of time," said Clooney, whose father was a former host of 1970s quiz The Money Maze. Asked which game show he watched in London, the star said: "I haven't seen that many in the UK, but I've watched Countdown."

17-CIVILIZATION, HISTORY AND FASHION________________________________________68-90

Fashion: HISTORY OF  FASHION OF DEITIES AND HUMANS FROM THE DAWN OF CIVILIZATION TO THE 20TH CENTURY BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE .An ancient Phoenician terra-cotta tablet found in Ougarit recorded a manifesto of  Phoenician shipment of goods and products exported to king Solomon by king Ahiram of Tyre  which contained a long list of regionally made objects as well as imported products from the “lands of the rivers”. The list included several items  and products which grew exclusively in the mountains of Phoenicia such as the famous Lebanese cedars,  the blue cobalt vases and glasses manufactured in Tyre and Sidon, papyrus papers which were manufactured in Byblos, the Ourjawan coloring which was extracted from sea shells on the shore of Phoenicia as well as material and fabrics which were imported to Phoenicia  from distant lands referred to as “the lands of the rivers”  a name frequently used to refer to ancient Armenia. Another passage in the tablets referred to the ancient Armenians as the “traveling warriors”. An appellation rarely mentioned by historians and archaeologists.

18-INTERVIEWS_______________________________________________________________91-93

Lisa: Lisa Bouchelle. She is young, but she acquired wisdom. She looks like a tender sweet angel with a funky-techno-pin-up girl face, but she has more depth than you think. She might sit on a bench in an empty and foggy street, holding her guitar, gazing at images from the unknown, waiting for a divine messenger, wearing high black leather boots,  challenging you if you dare to look at her and forget to greet her like a fallen goddess…she might do that, but in and around the aura of this angelic-sweet devilish magnificent singer, you will find so much depth, substance, intelligence, beauty, goodness, yes of course madness, creativity and warm friendship.

19- The Queens and Divas of the Ring____________________________________________94-111

 

Ring:Everything you wanted to know about women's professional wrestling  A top notch professional female wrestler in America makes four times more than the world’s greatest and most famous philharmonic orchestra’s female conductor…almost 35% more than a renown female surgeon…10 times more than Janet Reno…10 times more than Hilary Clinton as a senator, 50 times more than any female school superintendent…100 times more than a female medical assistant, 15 times more than a male federal judge…18 times more than a university astrophysics male professor…60 times more than a male preacher who has a doctorate degree in divinity or theology…28 times more than a violinist in a national philharmonic symphony orchestra …90 times more than a new secretary in a trade firm…and 100 times more than an American soldier fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan!

20-BREAKING NEWS/HOT FROM THE WIRE______________________________________112-113

Jackson: Michael Jackson has been indicted by a grand jury investigating child molestation allegations against the pop star after three weeks of closed witness testimony, according to news reports. The Santa Barbara News-Press cited county sources late Wednesday but had no details about the indictments, nor was there any official confirmation or announcement. Three other newspapers and three television networks also cited unidentified sources saying the Santa Barbara County grand jury had indicted Jackson. Grand jury indictments are usually secret until a defendant is arraigned. A judge has issued a gag order that prohibits lawyers on both sides from discussing the case with the media. The closed-door grand jury proceedings determines whether there is enough evidence for the case to go to trial, and replaced a preliminary hearing, which would have been public. Four months ago, county prosecutors charged Jackson with seven counts of lewd or lascivious acts on a child under the age of 14 and two counts ...

21-THE BLACK AND WHITE PAINTINGS OF MAXIMILLIEN DE LA CROIX______________114-119

De La Croix: The majority of the Black and White paintings  of Maximillien de La Croix were not indexed or catalogued in available art publications. I had to use other means and resources to have access to some of the original artwork of the founder of the PROGRESSIVE NEO CUBISM. Thanks to the assistance of Mrs. Aurele de La Croix, I became able to enter in touch with art collectors who had in their collections, some of Maitre de La Croix’s original Black and White paintings. The task was painful because many of them were living abroad and in far distant countries and cities such as Cape Town, Lima, Buenos Aires, Omsk, Kiev, Odessa, Tblisi, etc. ..

 

22- FAVORITE STARS OF THE YEAR____________________________________________120-124

                                                                                                                           

 

Deborah Voight P.120   Claire Martin P.121 Louise Pitre P.121  Cindy Benson  P122  Ute Lemper  P.123 Lian Amber P.124 Caroline Nin. They are the best in the business. And what they have in common? Fame, money, power, talent and grace. Yet, each one of them is singularly different in many ways. And Hey! How about their nationality? We have here, one French, one British, one German, two Americans, one European/American, etc...Read the reviews by Maximillien de Lafayette.

23- GOSSIPS AND NEWS OF THE STARS_________________________________________125-132

News: What all these stars have in common? They have money and hate the guts of President Bush? Really? In fact, they have much more than this. How about scandals, health problems (Not all of them), affairs? ( We don't want to be sued!), charitable contributions? Don't kid yourself. Read the whole mambo jumbo story by our reporters in the UK and worldwide.

                                                                                        

                                                                                               

 

 

24-THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN THE WORLD______________________________133-139

Powerful women: There have always been female rulers. Some Egyptian Queens are believed to have governed from around 3000 BC., and the first to be named by the sources without any doubt is Ku-baba, who ruled the Mesopotamian City-State of Ur round 2500 BC. But it was not until after World War I that the first few women became members of democratic governments. Nina Bang, Danish Minister of Education 1924-26 was the world's first full female cabinet minister. In 1960 Sirivamo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first female Premier Minister and in 1974 Isabel Perón of Argentina became the first woman President. Today only a handful of countries never had a female member of government in at least a sub-ministerial position: Lebanon, Monaco, Saudi Arabia, Tonga and The Vatican. And in 1999 Sweden became the first country to have more female ministers than male. 11 women and 9 men. 

25-WOMEN PRESIDENTS______________________________________________________140-146

Women presidents: They are the most visible, the most listened to and they govern countries and rules kingdoms. You are invited to meet them. The whole list along with the whole regalia, titles and imposing power.

26-LONDON THEATRE________________________________________________________147-149

Theatre: Legendary singer Barbara Cook is bringing her Broadway show to the Gielgud Theatre  for 18 performances only, from May 11-29. Barbara Cook’s Broadway! transfers from the Lincoln Center Theater in New York, where it has run from March until April. The singer and actress, now in her mid-seventies, starred in many Broadway productions in the 1950s and 60s including Flahooley, Candide, She Loves Me and The Music Man, for which she received a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Her previous show, Mostly Sondheim, performed in both New York and London in 2001, was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event...Kevin Spacey and David Liddiment today announced their plans for the first season of work at the Old Vic Theatre Company. The first four productions, all London premieres, will be Cloaca  by Maria Goos,  Aladdin by Bille Brown, National Anthems by Dennis MacIntyre and The Philadelphia Story  by Philip Barry. Speaking at a press conference at the Old Vic   this morning, Spacey was in confident...

27-THE AMERICAN  DIVAS: THE BEST CABARET STARS IN THE UNITED STATES_____150-168

American Divas: So many readers in the UK asked me who is the best cabaret entertainer  in the United States? And I replied: "There is no such thing as the best cabaret entertainer!" For the world of cabaret is immense and so is its personification on stage. Some artists are singers, purely singers with occasional appearances on the screen or on the tube, but they are typically cabaret singers, such as Amanda McBroom, Andrea Marcovicci, Anna Bergman, Caroline Nin et al. Others are cabaret concert artists like Barbara Cook, Kate Westbrook, Barb Jungr,  Lorna Dallas and Anne Kerry Ford. While some other superb cabaret entertainers are all of the above such as Susan Egan, Bernadette Peters, Lorraine Serabian and Liza Minelli. And of course, there...

28- DIVAS OF THE AMERICAN CABARET AND MUSIC-HALL________________________170-178

Richardson: Natasha Richardson was destined to grace the stage and screen. With actress Vanessa Redgrave and the late director Tony Richardson as parents, this bright-eyed British girl grew up watching Broadway productions and hanging out on film sets. She was constantly surrounded by movie stars, fantastic theaters and costumes. This exposure, along with her mother's acting, inspired her to pursue the craft. "I loved hanging around movie.............................................................................................................................170-171

Gibson: Deborah Gibson started her career at a young age. She got experience in theater by playing roles in plays like "A Christmas Carol", "Annie" and "Mickey Mouse and Friends". At age 12, she started songwriting seriously. She was part of the Metropolitan Opera for several years, doing opera's like "Hansel und Gretel", "La Boheme" and "Le Rossignol", some of which meant singing in a foreign language. Deborah got her first recording contract at age 16, for a 12" aimed at the dance market..........................................................................172-173

Leeves: Jane Leeves saw the light on on April 18 1962 in London. However, Jane grew up in the sleepy town of East Grinstead, Sussex (about 30 miles from London). Like so many great actresses, the seed of Jane's success was sewn at an early age. "I knew from the age of five that I wanted to be an actor." In her teenage years, Jane modeled and was a very keen dancer, until a knee injury in 1981 forced her to pursue her acting talents and partake in less strenuous dancing. This led to a handful of non-speaking roles, most notably in The Benny Hill Show. Later that year, Jane realised that America would present more career opportunities than Britain,   .....................174-175

Gershon: Gina Gershon was born on June 10, 1962 at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California....the youngest of 5 children. She was three weeks early...and says that is why she is so impatient today! Her ethnic background is French, Russian, and Dutch, and says "I could be the Meryl Streep of the Mediterranean world!" She was a Valley girl, and a surfer chick! She grew up in Woodland Hills in the San Fernando Valley. Trying to ............ .176-178

29- GOSSIPS AND NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD. RIDE THE MAGIC CARPET_____179-186

Gossips and News: Politics, personalities, celebrities, arts, politicians, artists, European affairs, royalty, Middle East, USA, UK, etc..

30-PEOPLE OF GREATNESS: THE 25 MEN AND WOMEN OF THE CENTURY___________187-230 

Century: The 25 Men and Women of the Century. In other words, they are the most powerful, influential, brilliant, well-known, charitable and unforgettable figures of our time, and nobody would dream  or dare to say no to them. This is what approximately 300,000 persons from around the globe think about our 25 living men and women of power and excellence of our century . The Monthly Herald conducted an international survey/poll on the most admired and brilliant personalities of our time  in 85 countries in the eastern and western hemispheres.  The survey/poll was addressed to our readers, as well as to highly educated and accomplished individuals who have been selected from several Who's Who (s) and  prestigious world directories. A considerable number of leaders, prominent personalities and  inductees in halls of fame took part in this survey.  The results are self-explanatory. And as expected, world's leaders, Noble prize winners, individuals with remarkable accomplishments, eminent universities chancellors and presidents, world-class artists, symphony orchestra conductors, CEOs with impressive authorship were the first choice of those who responded to our survey/poll. No Rap-Crap music and heavy-metal stars, celebrities-skin-flashers, big-mouth, arrogant media figures and pretentious radio-television shows hosts, scandalous models, outrageous motion pictures stars or gossips headliners made the list. Almost, 99,99% of all those who responded to our survey/poll are college graduates (some with one or two Ph.D.s), at least bi-lingual (some spoke fluently 7 languages) and assumed a high position of responsibility in their fields. So, here is the list of the 25 people of greatness of our time.

31-  THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN HOLLYWOOD_________________________________231-233

Power: Detroit-born Bruckheimer developed his love of films when he discovered Steve McQueen action movies at an early age, while his organisational skills stood him in good stead for his future career. "I had an ability to organize things and put them together," he says. "For example, I was never a good athlete, but I put together a baseball team so I could play. Then I got a hockey team together so I could play that too". His first job as producer came in 1972 with The Culpepper Cattle Company, a Western which follows the fortunes of a young farmhand desperate to make it as a cattle rancher. Other early productions included 1980's American Gigolo, which made a star of Richard Gere, Michael Mann's 1981 thriller Thief and the horror remake Cat People, with Nastassja Kinski. In 1983 he made Flashdance, his first collaboration with long-time producing partner Don Simpson. It was a smash hit, making more than $100m in the US alone, and set....

32- WORLD ROYALTY: HEIRESSES OF THRONES_________________________________234-238

Royalty: Most of the possible women listed here were considered the most likely heiresses to the thrones until the birth of their brothers or other male relatives. Some of the other heiresses died before they were able to succeed to the throne....

 

ENTERTAINMENT/SHOWS & STARS NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD_____________239-259

33-CINEMA REVIEW_______________________________________________________239      Cinema.  13 Going On 30. Jennifer Garner goes big in her first starring role in a comedy, and it pays off big-time, in 13 Going On 30. The star of TV's Alias plays an awkward 13-year-old girl who yearns for adulthood and is transported to her future as a 30-year-old woman, so comparisons to Big are inevitable. (And there are more than a couple of nods to that 1988 movie: She marvels at Manhattan through the sun roof of a limousine and makes simplistic suggestions at the office that are interpreted as genius.) That's OK, though, because Garner accomplishes something that Tom Hanks did, too: She truly makes you believe you're watching a child trapped...

34-News of the Mega Stars______________________________241-243      Mega Stars: Tim Robbins wrote and directed Embedded, the off-Broadway agitprop satire about a Mideast conflict. Now he's starring in it. Robbins, an Academy Award winner earlier this year for his performance in Mystic River, was to join the cast Tuesday...Sharon Stone has been recognized by the National Center for Lesbian Rights for her support of gay and lesbian civil rights. The actress, who has helped raise millions of dollars for AIDS research and has portrayed lesbian characters in movies...Brooke Shields, the mother of a nearly one-year-old daughter, is writing a book about postpartum depression. Hyperion plans to publish Down Came the Rain next spring. "By sharing my experience, I hope to shed light on a real..

35-News &  events of the divas and stars.  New shows, plays, concerts_________________________244-253 productions___244253______________________________

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36- THE 12 BEST LIVE ENTERTAINMENT VENUES & CABARETS IN NEW YORK CITY___254-260

Cabaret: New York's best venues, spots, cabarets, shows,  music, repertoires, boites, ambiances, etc...The choice of the month...

 

38-BOOK REVIEW____________________________________________________________295-296

Book: Plan of Attack" is a must-read. National polls published this week report that Americans likely to vote in the next presidential election say that a candidate’s stands on terrorism and the war in Iraq are more important than their positions on the economy, education or health care. That shift in interest accounts for part of the extraordinary buzz that has surrounded “Plan of Attack” Bob Woodward’s engrossing and astonishingly detailed reconstruction of how President Bush reached his January 2003 decision to launch an unprecedented pre-emptive invasion of Iraq and to overthrow Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship. In still larger measure, the attention given this book since snippets of its...

39- TELL PEGGY: READERS' MAIL AND OPINIONS (Mail)____________________________297-311