Search results
1 day ago · Here & Now ‘s Deepa Fernandes speaks with author and writing professor Deborah Paredez about her new book “ American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous .”. Paredez tells the stories of great divas including Oscar winner Rita Moreno, singers Tina Turner and Celia Cruz, and tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.
1 day ago · In the vein of "Mobituaries," "Roctogenarians" is a collection of entertaining and unexpected profiles of these unretired titans—some long gone (a cancer-stricken Henri Matisse, who began work on his celebrated cut-outs when he could no longer paint), some very much still living (Rita Moreno, the EGOT who’s still got it).
1 day ago · Here & Now ‘s Deepa Fernandes speaks with author and writing professor Deborah Paredez about her new book “ American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous .”. Paredez tells the stories of great divas including Oscar winner Rita Moreno, singers Tina Turner and Celia Cruz, and tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.
4 days ago · To my mind, this is the most visually inventive documentary Howard has made. The simplicity of the gray, box-like set for interviews with Henson’s children, Oz, Fran Brill, Rita Moreno and other ...
1 day ago · Here is the Queen of Salsa, Celia Cruz; the effervescent and doomed Selena; Tina Turner performing “Proud Mary” with “inimitable ferocity”; Rita Moreno, on-fire dancer and vengeful victim in the movie West Side Story; Venus and Serena Williams, “defying the naysayers” and dominating the courts; Aretha Franklin, “a queen bee ...
1 day ago · Paredez tells the stories of great divas including Oscar winner Rita Moreno, singers Tina Turner and Celia Cruz, and tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams. The book explores the lessons they can teach the rest of us. Book excerpt: ‘American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous’. By Deborah Paredez.
1 day ago · Here & Now ‘s Deepa Fernandes speaks with author and writing professor Deborah Paredez about her new book “ American Diva: Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous .”. Paredez tells the stories of great divas including Oscar winner Rita Moreno, singers Tina Turner and Celia Cruz, and tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.
