Monday, July 30, 2012

Madonna in Paris show

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PARIS (Reuters) - Pop star Madonna treated fans to an intimate show at Paris' famed Olympia theatre on Thursday, voicing her love for a France that is open to minorities and artists and reinterpreting "Je t'aime moi non plus," a song laced with sexual innuendo.


Tickets for the surprise show - a last-minute addition to Madonna's "MDNA" tour - were offered first to members of her fan club and sold out within minutes. Some people began gathering outside the Olympia as early as Wednesday for the show, and anticipation was running high.



In the end, reaction was mixed and some in the audience voiced disappointment at the show's length, a mere 45 minutes. A few called for refunds as they left the 2,700-seat theatre, Paris' oldest surviving music hall which has welcomed iconic stars from Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel to the Rolling Stones.

The concert was expected to have a political overtone to it, and Madonna started off on a rebellious note.

"I have a special affinity with France, and I have for many years," the pop star shouted at the start. "It could go all the way to Napoleon because I think of myself as a revolutionary."
Yet there was no repeat of the performance she gave at the 80,000-seat Stade de France on July 14, which angered France's far right party leader Marine Le Pen by showing a picture of her with a swastika superimposed on her face.

France's National Front has since announced it will sue her.

On Thursday, Madonna offered only veiled criticism of the party's anti-immigrant stance, paying homage to a France which she said once "opened its arms to minorities."

"I know that I have made a certain Marine Le Pen very angry with me," she said, adding that her intention was not to make enemies. "We are entering some very scary times in the world. People are afraid, and what happens when people are afraid? They say 'get out! You're the reason. You're the problem. You're to blame,'" she told the audience.

LONG WAIT, SHORT SHOW

Tickets for the show, which included both classics and songs from her latest album "MDNA," started at 80 euros ($98) and were offered first to members of Madonna's fan club. They sold out in less than 5 minutes, organizers said, and the Olympia's website crashed several times due to heavy traffic.

Fans started gathering at noon on Wednesday to attend the show, with many pitching tents on the sidewalk to make sure they got as close as possible to the Material Girl.

Die-hard fan, 25-year-old Ally Gloser from Cologne, Germany, said she had bought tickets for 11 of Madonna's shows over the summer, at a cost of 2,500 euros.

"Normally, I'm a student. Now I'm a poor student," she said.

True to form, the 53-year-old offered up an array of sexy outfits and age-defying moves, at one point adding a French touch for Parisian fans with a black leather pencil skirt, red lipstick, and a French beret. She paid tribute to several French artists, including actor Alain Delon and singer Piaf.

"I walk in her footsteps, actually I crawl in her footsteps", she said of the "La Vie en rose" singer while kneeling on stage.

Under red lights and on an entirely empty stage, Madonna sang the famous French song, "Je t'aime moi non plus" ("I love you, neither do I") written by Serge Gainsbourg in the late 1960s. She tied a dance partner down on a chair and pretended to shoot him in the mouth.
Audience reaction to the show was mixed.

"The show itself was pretty good, but she didn't even sing for an hour", complained 33-year-old Guillaume Delaval. "She spoke for 15 minutes about tolerance, it's not the U.N. here."

Pierce Brosnan, the Irish actor who played in four James Bond movies, attended the show with his wife.

"We're fans. My wife wanted to come, so we bought tickets," he told Reuters, explaining he was in Paris to shoot a movie with Emma Thompson called "Love Punch."
Madonna will perform in Nice, France on August 21. After shows in the Middle East and Europe, the singer will give concerts in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Chile and Argentina  Source, Source 2 Madonna Official Website, Madonna Top Songs, Madonna Top Song2,

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Sunday, July 22, 2012

"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," Author Died

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Stephen R. Covey, author of the bestselling motivational book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," died on Monday at an Idaho hospital from injuries he suffered in a bicycle accident in April, family members said in a statement. 

He was 79. Covey, a former professor at Brigham Young University in Utah, founded an executive training center in Salt Lake City that merged in 1997 with Franklin Quest Co to form FranklinCovey, a leading provider of time-management seminars and publications. 

The publicly traded company is perhaps best known for its line of Franklin Planner appointment calendars, which it markets along with books, workshops and other products based on its "Franklin System" of business management and Covey's "7 Habits" principles.

Covey, a Salt Lake City native, earned a master's degree in business administration from Harvard University and a doctorate from Brigham Young.

But it was his seminal self-help guide to success in business, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change," published in 1989, that made Covey a brand name.

He went on to write several more bestsellers about business management, including "Principle-Centered Leadership," became a favorite motivational speaker on the Fortune 100 circuit and served as a personal consultant to organizations ranging from Procter & Gamble to NASA.

Covey was recognized in 1996 as one of Time magazine's 25 most influential Americans, and was named among the world's top 50 business thinkers in 2011 by Thinkers50, a group that compiles that list every other year.

His "7 Habits" title has sold more than 20 million books in 38 languages worldwide, and the audio version has sold over 2 million copies, more than any nonfiction book ever released on tape, according to publisher Simon & Schuster.

The book spent five years on the New York Times bestseller list and begat a number of sequels, including his 2004 title, "The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness," and his final work, "The 3rd Alternative," published last year.

He died at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls "due to the residual effects of a bike accident he suffered this past April," his family said in its statement.

Covey fell off his bike and suffered severe head injuries requiring hospitalization on April 19 during a ride near his home in Provo, Utah, according to Provo police Sergeant Brandon Post.
Covey was remembered on Monday by colleagues at Utah State University, where he joined the business school faculty in 2010, as an accomplished scholar and tireless mentor to students.

"Dr. Covey touched the lives of people around the world in very personal ways," Utah State President Stan Albrecht said in a statement. "He was an inspirational leader who was always a powerful voice for individual integrity, strong character and extreme trustworthiness in every aspect of life."

In an article published in the business school's magazine, Covey was described by one of his sons as an informal, approachable person with a good sense of humor.

"He always treated everybody the same, exactly," Sean Covey said in the spring 2010 issue of the Huntsman Alumni Magazine. "It didn't matter if you were the CEO of a Fortune 10 company or the local barber. You wouldn't have ever known the difference."

In his final hours, Covey was surrounded "by his loving wife and each one of his children and their spouses, as we sang him his favorite hymns, just as he always wanted," the family statement said. YahooNews  Read more new about Stephen R.Covey accident 




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