Sarah Bernhardt

NEARLY A century before Tina Turner's current and possibly final tour, Sarah Bernhardt, the greatest actress of her time, made a similar journey. At 71, Bernhardt did not possess the remarkable health the 68-year-old Turner displayed Monday at the Staples...

Inspired by Andy Warhol's earlier portrait of Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, Israeli art dealer Alexander Harari in 1978 approached gallerist Ronald Feldman, (who commissioned the original,) to ask if Warhol would be interested in making a series of...

Marcel Marceau, the great French mime who for seven decades mastered silence and brought new life to an ancient art form, has died. He was 84. Marceau died Saturday in Paris, French news media reported, citing his former assistant Emmanuel Vacca. The...

San Bernardino may not be the Eden the early inhabitants stumbled upon, but the creeks and river are still inviting, and snowcapped mountains grace its backdoor in the wintertime. Sports and cultural events abound in this storied city where the McDonald...

Paris designers looked to Hollywood with elaborate creations that will vie for "best dressed" on the red carpet. Cate Blanchett lit up the front row at Giorgio Armani's show, held on the third day of the autumn-winter haute couture collections. And...

FLOWERS, love letters and lipstick kisses by the hundreds - all so apropos of Paris, the world's capital of love and destination for romantics everywhere. But something was amiss. The scene was not a charming cafe, nor an elegant hotel room, nor a...

Critic's Picks Mark Markov-Grinberg. Photographer Markov-Grinberg chronicled the dark and heady rise of the Soviet Union from the 1920s through the '40s. These were the years of Stalin's purges, of forced collectivization and mass industrialization. They...

Snowflakes dusted my nose as I stood in Place-Royale, the birthplace of French civilization in North America and, more recently, site of the arrest of Leonardo DiCaprio's con-man character in the 2002 film "Catch Me If You Can." In the movie, the ancient...

Most of Oscar Wilde's famous plays are works of personal obfuscation. "Salome," the infamous tale of the revved-up young woman who danced for the pleasure of Herod and the head of John the Baptist, is a troubled drama of personal revelation. Given the...

Beginnings: The first inhabitants were the Orient Focus People, Indians who lived about 1000 BC. They vanished long before the arrival in about 900 AD of the Corchaugs, who called the area Poquatuc. The Corchaugs were still present when six English...

At 6:30 on a pitch-dark morning early last October, I was backing a French rental car down a ramp from the dock at Le Palais on Belle-Île onto the ferry, my eyes frozen on an attendant who was waving his arms frantically and yelling. "À droit!" (To the...

Friday April 6, 2001      Ann Hu's "Shadow Magic" evokes the dawn of cinema in China with muchcharm, humor and subtlety.      The identities of the few Westerners who brought motion pictures to China at the turn of the last century are unknown today,...