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MARLENE DIETRICH canonized the masculine look for women when she appeared in Morocco in 1930 and sang Give Me the Man. These days, it's Giorgio Armani's job to keep the tuxedo?now a black-tie staple for both men and women, thanks to the Italian tastemaker?au courant. Guys like Cuba Gooding Jr., Ben Affleck and Sean Penn are obvious fans. But it took the more outlaw style of Russell Crowe to update this classic menswear look with a ribbon tie and longer tails in 2001. Jodie Foster wore a crystal beaded version to the Oscars...
DIED. Astrid Varnay, 88, Swedish-American soprano whose intense, passionate style energized some of the most demanding roles of German opera, including Strauss's Elektra and Wagner's Isolde, Kundry and Brunnhilde (she sang Brunnhilde more than 300 times); in Munich. Her career took off unexpectedly in 1941 after she was called in as a last-minute, last-choice understudy to play Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walkure at New York City's Metropolitan Opera, where she eventually performed 200 times. Of her emotional style, she said, "I feel my roles first, then I put them into action...
...showing bursts of authentic emotion Saturday as he waved to the faithful who?d turned out, and proudly sang parts of the Bavarian regional anthem. "Inside of me, so many memories of my years in Munich and Regensburg are coming back, memories of people and events that left deep traces in me," he said...
...Nairobi, a crowd on the street outside chanted "Obama, come to us" and waved banners bearing his likeness. And when he arrived in Kogelo last Saturday in a motorcade followed by camera crews and reporters, screaming crowds chanted his name, a praise singer catalogued his strengths and children sang songs about him they had written especially for the occasion...
...discouraged by their sense of helplessness in the face of current events. "After what has been going on in Gaza, Lebanon and all these countries, he's singing about this, and that's really perfect," says Diana Nassar, 17, a Jordanian student in a hot pink headscarf who sang along from her seat in the Amman audience...