Paris Friends: DEATHS ELSEWHERE
Sam Woodyard, 63, the American jazz musician who was Duke Ellington's inseparable, improvising drummer, died yesterday in Paris, friends said.Mr. Woodyard had lived in Paris for 12 years and was a well-known figure in jazz clubs on the Left Bank. Born Jan. 7, 1925, in Elizabeth, N.J., Mr. Woodyard made his reputation as the feverish drummer for Ellington, beating out crazy rhythms and wild solos with the master of swing from 1955 to 1968."When he plays, he...
Paris Friends: Deaths Elsewhere
ARLETTY, 94, a dark-haired beauty who began as a factory worker and ended up a legend of the French cinema, died Friday (July 24, 1992) at her home in Paris, friends of the actress said. Ms. Arletty entered movie history the moment she stood on the bridge over the Canal St. Martin in the 1938 Marcel Carne movie ''Hotel du Nord.'' Her testy reply to her violent, wayward lover - ''Atmosphere, atmosphere . . ....
Paris Friends: Francis 'Cap' Gallant
AUBURN, Maine - Francis J. "Cap" Gallant, age 78, of Auburn, Maine, died unexpectedly July 20, 2004, at his home. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Weston-Chandler Funeral Home, South Paris. Friends may call Thursday afternoon and evening.Mr. Gallant was born Feb. 13, 1926, in Skowhegan, Maine, to Mary and Emanuel (Eddie) Gallant. He attended local schools and graduated from Skowhegan High School in 1943. He served in the U.S. Navy Construction...
Paris Friends: A-LIST
Sophie has it in the can at Candy's party ACP'S Sophie Hermione Gabrielle Baker turned a glamorous Three-Oh at Candy's Apartment in the Cross last Saturday. (Candy is no human: the space was once the Kardomah Cafe.) Brooke Tabberer , who hesitates about appearing on Saturday, ensconced herself on a sofa with Carlotta Spencer and discussed mothers. (Tabberer later sang a dab of Beluga onto that old toast Happy Birthday, while Spencer has a book with Pan...
Paris Friends: The watcher and the watched,
EDITORIAL OPINION
LAST year, a review of a work of the writer Marc-Edouard Nabe appeared on the front page of the French newspaper Le Figaro. The book, weighing in at 3915 pages, is a diary of Mr Nabe's life, recording in minute detail such events as his break-up with his girlfriend, quarrels with his Paris friends and the birth of his first child. Of the birth, Mr Nabe said later: "The doctor asked me if I wanted to cut the umbilical cord, but I was too busy writing down what was...
