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La Vie En Rose
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Four decades after her death, Edith Piaf remains one of the most renowned singers of all time. She was born into poverty, rose to become the toast of Paris, and then struggled with alcohol and drugs until she died at age 47. We talk with Olivier Dahan, the writer and director of "La Vie En Rose," a new film based on Piaf's life.
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Edith Piaf may be not so obscure to Americans as you imagine. As for me, I experienced a disconnect from pop music when it turned heavy metal and spent a full year listening incessantly to Edith Piaf and alternately Bessie Smith. In their different ways they tapped raw emotion and sexuality that commercial American pop music didn't. Hearing Piaf again tonight made me wonder why I ever quit my obsession. Now I must see the movie.
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