Jean Claude Baker

James and The Giant Peach Meets Josephine Baker and Bernadette Peters...

Freddie Gershon | Posted 09.19.2011

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Freddie Gershon

This past January at the Broadway JR. Festival in Atlanta, approximately 2,500 young people from grade schools with their teachers and adjudicators we...

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How Josephine Baker Helped Save Post-War French Fashion (PHOTOS)

Lesley M. M. Blume | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Style News, Balenciaga, Balmain, Jean-Claude Baker, Paris, Fashion History, Dior, Jean Cocteau, Style, 1920s, Style Icon, Josephine Baker, Lesley M. M. Blume, Fashion, Fashion News, Fashion Icon, Chez Josephine, Paul Poiret, Style News
Lesley M. M. Blume

I spoke to Baker's son about how Josephine became a savior of the House of Dior, who really invented that deliciously scandalous string of bananas, and how she became a "guest editor" at Vogue (without the editors ever knowing it).

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Chez Josephine, the World's Best Restaurant!

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bruce Weber, Claudette Law, My, Kitty Carlisle Hart, Jean-Claude Baker, Lynn Whitfield, Cordelle-Cleare, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, State Senator Bill Perkins, World's Best Restaurant, New York, Whoopi Goldberg, Michael MC COLLOM, Leonard-Hanna, Chez-Josephine, Curtis Quentin Phelps, Lou Willard, Dale and Ann Dobson, Astor, Vanderbilt, Edna Ratner, Phyllis Briley, Rocky Baron Boler, Terry Wynn, Eva Tuholka, Josephine Baker, Baryshnikov Jesseye Norman, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

'Is it really all you suggest?' "Certainly it's a 'fun' place, with more than decent food. It's in jolly surroundings, with a zany ambiance, that...

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The Dazzle of a Rising Star

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nicolle Rochelle, Jean-Claude Baker, Josephine Baker, Chez Josephine, New York, Paris, Lynn Whitfield, L?Opéra-Comique, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

New York has a way of continually affording one with opportunities to ask questions like, "What becomes a legend most?"

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