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...For the final song, “Summer Renaissance”, she was hoisted above the audience on a horse, like Bianca Jagger at Studio 54, while singing high notes in the style of Donna Summer....
...Their earlier call for the O2 Arena to be transformed into “a gay bar” was realised by vogueing moves from the dancers, a semi-striptease routine set to Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” and Smith’s subsequent...
...They range from cult underground hits such as Kilo Ali’s “America Has a Problem (Cocaine)”, which turns up in “America Has a Problem”, to the vocal melody from Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love”, which Beyoncé...
...“What people do will come down to employees figuring out what’s best for them,” says Donna Miller, the company’s European HR director....
...On closing number “Strict Machine”, a warhorse from their back catalogue, she was a Donna Summer-style disco siren in a netherworld of sleazy synth riffs and whiplash beats — grabbing all present by the...
...Gonzo writer Hunter S Thompson’s look was spectacularly outlandish: think American-tourist-on-safari-and-on-acid....
...At Paradise Park, a wildlife sanctuary outside St Ives, the Easter-themed scavenge requires hunters to seek out clues to chocolate treats among moulded dinosaur eggs. Not for purists, that one....
...But it all lies a long way short of his heyday with Donna Summer....
...Introducing an aria from his opera Prima Donna, he explained that it was about a diva deciding whether to continue her career. “It has nothing to do with me,” he added with a wild volley of laughter....
...“Magic Number” is gently fried 1960s orchestral pop, “Jericho Road” marches grandly into a spaghetti western vista of chiming bells and drums while “Silver Donna” sets Jurado’s high vocals to hypnotically...
...vocoders and an all-male cast of guests (Nile Rodgers, Pharrell Williams, Giorgio Moroder) leave one yearning for one aspect of classic disco that the album avoids – the volcanic emotions of divas such as Donna...
...This volume tells of a grand operatic melodrama, though played out as often by general managers and unions as by prima donnas. Too breathless, but even-handed in its judgments....
...… Lucy Kellaway FT columnist Literary people can be snooty about Donna Tartt’s third novel, The Goldfinch (Abacus), yet this is a book written for the reader’s sheer pleasure....
...The Goldfinch , by Donna Tartt, Little, Brown, RRP£20/$30 Tartt’s last book was published in 2002, so a new novel is an event....
...Ludovic Hunter-Tilney …………………………………………………………….....
...His opera Prima Donna had its London debut on Monday, also at Sadler’s Wells. All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu is scored for solo piano....
...For their part, Yves Saint Laurent, Donna Karan and Stella McCartney all re-imagined the classic white shirt; 1980s shoulder pads powered through at Dolce & Gabbana and Oscar de la Renta; and professional...
...Chanin) limited edition T-shirts for HBO, which involve the recycling of over-stock tees from TV’s Sex and the City, Flight of the Conchords and The Sopranos into “wearable ‘green’ art”; e-mails about Donna...
..., Donna (Meryl Streep) accidentally breaks a shutter in her decrepit hotel and bursts into song, during which she commands a friend not to sit on a broken chair and gazes wistfully at a large white yacht...
...Hoare cites Mogambo, the 1953 John Ford epic starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly, and the outfit worn by Michael Douglas playing a rugged fortune hunter in Romancing the Stone....
...De Niro plays a Hollywood producer who has to juggle the demands of ex-wives, growing daughter, fierce studio head, prima donna director and stroppy actor....
...“It’s called Prima Donna and it’s about a day in the life of an opera singer, in which she falls in love with a journalist.” It is, he adds with a smirk, partly based on his life....
...There could be no better tribute to the incomparable French soprano who died this year, Régine Crespin (right), than Prima Donna in Paris (Decca, 2CDs)....
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