Carmen Miranda

...Errol Flynn, Marlon Brando, Edith Piaf, Elizabeth Taylor, Tyrone Power. Nat ``King'' Cole, Josephine Baker, Yma Sumac, Paul Robeson, Carmen Miranda and Celia Cruz performed at the club. In 1960, after Castro's revolution took over their...

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There's a far more entertaining tribute to Hollywood in which Brachetti spectacularly transforms himself from King Kong to Carmen Miranda, and from Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz to the terrified victim in the shower scene of Psycho.

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...girlfriend, singer Rita Lee, Os Mutantes ("The Mutants") were quite a weird bunch for a land known mainly for fruit-laden film star Carmen Miranda and the sensuous Afro-Caribbean rhythms of the samba and bossanova. If you own a TV, you've...

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...Gutman, Mark Ronson, Daniel Jobim, and John King of the acclaimed Dust Brothers. Click here to listen to Bebel Gilberto's remake of Carmen Miranda's Chica Chica Boom Chic, one of the tracks of the new album. Comments are moderated, and...

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...within and even a surprisingly corny but dear version of the kitschy Hollywood classic "Chica Chica Boom Chic" once sung by Carmen Miranda. Other than those moments, little of All in One radiates the adventure that audiences found in the...

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...tribute. Brazil's Consul General Jorio Gama was on hand for opening remarks, as were members of Bando da Lua, Carmen Miranda's original band. Carmen Miranda Square is only one of about a dozen Los Angeles city intersections named for...

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..."Duck Soup" (1933) and "A Night in Casablanca" (1946), and without, such as "Copacabana" (1947), in which he played opposite Carmen Miranda. He hosted the radio quiz show "You Bet Your Life," which later was picked up by television and...

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...Or Amortecedor is full of typically idiosyncratic m�langes. "2000 e Agarrum", for instance, sounds like an updated, ironic Carmen Miranda number periodically split by spindly bursts of guitar and bits which resemble David Byrne in Latino...

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...scarce. One of his innovations was to cover the cork with pieces of mirror, a look reflected in the Carmen ($3,900), created for Carmen Miranda. The Salvatore Ferragamo flagship boutique unveils a temporary installation of "Ferragamo's...

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...outfits and outsized personality, which continue to inspire contemporary fashion (not to mention drag queens), singer-dancer Carmen Miranda is better known than many of her contemporaries from Hollywood's Golden Age. "The Carmen...

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