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	An American in Paris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An American in Paris is a symphonic composition by American composer George Gershwin which debuted in 1928.
		An American In Paris is also a 1951 film musical starring Gene Kelly.
		Inspired by Gershwin's time in Paris, it is in the form of an extended tone poem evoking the sights and energy of the French capital in the 1920s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/An_American_in_Paris (166 words)

	An American in Paris
		The streets of Paris were recreated on the MGM lot, and the film's players found the set to be an easy and efficient place to work.
		While Gene Kelly was an obvious choice for the role of Jerry Mulligan, casting the other roles proved to be a difficult task for director Vincente Minnelli and producer Arthur Freed.
		The not-yet eighteen-year-old Caron soon found herself coming to Hollywood to make her screen debut speaking English in the year's most anticipated musical spectacular.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Screen/5208/AiP.html (446 words)

	An American in Paris
		Many university students in Paris live with their families and ride public transportation to class, which means that the campus culture that flourishes outside the classroom at most American universities—extracurricular activities, arts and athletic events, weekend parties—is virtually nonexistent.
		I suspect that this is partly because I came to Paris expecting to be shocked—and I was.
		I am not an outliner (I generally plan academic papers with a few scribbles on the back of an envelope), so The Methodology’s exigencies required me to step out of the intellectual shoes I’d been wearing for several years.
	www.harvard-magazine.com /on-line/070517.html (2170 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: An American In Paris [1951]: DVD
		An American in Paris is not quite as bright and smiley or as funny as Singing in the Rain, but it's entertaining viewing nevertheless, with a bittersweet storyline enhanced by George Gershwin's fantastic music.
		The plot of An American in Paris is mostly an excuse for director Vincente Minnelli to pool his own extraordinary talent with those of choreographer-dancer-actor Gene Kelly and the artists behind the screenplay, art direction, cinematography, and score, creating a rapturous musical not quite like anything else in cinema.
		Ok the story of an ex GI who stays on in paris to become a painter and falls in love with a women already engaged to another man, isnt the strongest storyline in history but it allows a perfect backdrop to great songs and dance.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000094P4V (762 words)

	An American in Paris
		Americans in Paris, I have noticed, essentially forget that they are in France.
		The night before, I was leafing through a Paris guide book and discovered that I have indeed seen most of all the spots mentioned and most of the time, I didn’t even realize it was in fact “the” spot as I passed it.
		Yesterday, as all of Paris was about to stop for the daily 2 hour lunch break (not including Sunday, when its all day), I was waiting in line to buy a sandwich (Gasp!!
	spaces.msn.com /arev11 (2669 words)

	CNN - An American in Paris - June 14, 1996
		PARIS (CNN) -- Joan Juliet Buck was born in California but her parents brought her to France as a child and raised her there.
		When she was offered the editor-in-chief position at French Vogue about a year and half ago, she snapped it up and returned to live in Paris.
		"When I was a kid in Paris we had rooms like this and there's a lot of objects that belonged to my parents and grandparents that then became mine.
	www.cnn.com /STYLE/9606/14/buck.house (293 words)

	An American in Paris gives tips on cooking
		An American living in Paris since 1980, the year her husband left The New York Times to work for The International Herald Tribune, Wells has made it her business to seek out the city's finest restaurants and share what she's found with the American public.
		The incontestable charm of "The Paris Cookbook" is the company of the author, who provides enlightening explanations of cooking terms for the recipes she's chosen and shares what she has learned when testing the recipes.
		You are in Paris when you turn the pages of this book illustrated with candid black-and-white photos of smiling chefs, food markets and French women lugging home their overflowing shopping bags.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05219/548854.stm (750 words)

	AlterNet: Election 2004: Personal Voices: An American in Paris
		And I reassured people that Bush wouldn't win again, that we were wise to him, and that Americans – for all their political naïveté – did not tolerate being lied to by their president.
		I concluded that experiencing this kind of defeat from abroad bears an unpleasant dimension, as you are faced not only with your own disillusionment and much of your country's, but also with that of the watching world.
		I was ashamed that the picture of America – diverse, open, forward-thinking – that I had painted for my French friends had been erased by an America whose power I had underestimated, an America which confirmed all the degrading stereotypes I had struggled against over the last few years.
	www.alternet.org /election04/20551 (1460 words)

	An American in Paris Movie: An American in Paris DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		An American G.I. lingers in Paris after the war to study painting and soon falls in love with Caron, an engaged mademoiselle, much to the chagrin of his romance-minded benefactress.
		AN AMERICAN IN PARIS was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1993.
		Gene Kelly received an Honorary Academy Award in 1951 "in appreciation of his versatility as an actor, singer, director and dancer, and specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film."
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/012569506923IE (385 words)

	An American In Paris (1951)
		An American in Paris - and Gigi (1958), were among Minnelli's most successful films, and two rare nuggets of gold among MGM's Golden Age of Musicals.
		The pretentious sequence, featuring an Impressionistic period daydream in the style of various painters, is one of the longest uninterrupted dance sequences of any Hollywood film, and features the music of George Gershwin.
		He accepts a drink of sherry, and learns she acquired her wealth as an heiress to a sun-tan oil empire, clarifying: "There's a lot of red skin in America." She smoothly invites him to a small party in her hotel room later that evening.
	www.filmsite.org /amer.html (2217 words)

	An American In Paris (1951)
		An American In Paris appears in its original theatrical aspect ratio of approximately 1.33:1 on this single-sided, single-layered DVD; due to those dimensions, the image has not been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		The monaural audio of An American In Paris seemed much more consistent that the image, but unfortunately, that's not necessarily a positive, as the sound appeared pretty bland.
		Skip An American In Paris, if you listen to my advice.
	www.dvdmg.com /americaninparis.shtml (1384 words)

	Review: An American Werewolf in Paris
		An American Werewolf in Paris is a failed attempt to recapture the humor and horror of John Landis' 1981 feature, An American Werewolf in London.
		In short, while An American Werewolf in London has become something of a minor classic in its genre, the woeful An American Werewolf in Paris seems destined for late nights on Cinemax (it even has the necessary gratuitous nudity).
		This isn't necessarily a good thing, since it prevents us from relaxing and enjoying An American Werewolf in Paris as a completely mindless, campy entertainment experience.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/a/american_werewolf.html (698 words)

	An American Werewolf in London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The movie was followed by a 1997 semi-sequel, An American Werewolf in Paris, which featured a completely different cast.
		An American Werewolf in London is a horror film released in 1981, written and directed by John Landis.
		Two American college students, David Kessler (Naughton) and Jack Goodman (Dunne), are backpacking across the Yorkshire moors when they are attacked by a large animal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/An_American_Werewolf_in_London (707 words)

	SPLICEDwire: "An American Werewolf in Paris" review
		Any chance "An American Werewolf in Paris" had to stand up against it's cult classic predecessor is abandon 10 minutes into the movie when it is revealed that one of the werewolves is a nurse.
		Meanwhile an American named Andy (Tom Everett Scott from "That Thing You Do!") and a couple of his pals backpacking through Europe rescue the Serafine (Julie Delpy), the werewolf nurse, from a suicide attempt when she jumps off the Eiffel Tower and Andy bungie jumps after her (don't ask).
		An in-name-only sequel cashing in on John Landis' darkly funny 1981 flick "An American Werewolf in London," this movie is something of a scary-comic mutation.
	www.splicedonline.com /97reviews/werewolf2.html (547 words)

	AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN PARIS movie review with photos, video
		An American Werewolf in Paris is a glorious gory surprise, hairy fun from start to finish, and while it may not be everyone's slice of meat, it promises great things for both its stars and director.
		AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN PARIS (R, language, violence) Three Stars (Good) A glorious gory surprise, hairy fun from start to finish, and while it may not be everyone's slice of meat, it promises great things for both its stars and director.
		AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN PARIS movie review with photos, video
	www.rochestergoesout.com /mov/a/america.html (683 words)

	An American in Paris
		I plan on making Paris my own, just as I was able to do with Boston; it is one thing to visit a city, or even to exist in it, as I did in Austin, but it is quite another to set out to see, understand and own the city.
		Chartres is a city about an hour or so outside of Paris that houses what is considered the quintessential gothic cathedral, with legendary stained glass windows.
		Naturally, I paid my respects to Baron Haussman, the architect of modern Paris under Napoleon III, Moliere, the incredibly witty playwright of Louis XIV, Oscar Wilde, eminent author, and Jim Morrison, late of the Doors.
	johnaparis.blogspot.com (8981 words)

	Majikthise : An American in Paris
		Paris has not grown in size for at least 100 years if I recall my history right.
		The US model is suburban sprawl from an often ill-defined center or annexation of other towns as in Los Angeles.
		Remember that it is a small city in area and once had a wall completely around it, something that most US cities cannot claim.
	majikthise.typepad.com /majikthise_/2005/11/an_american_in__2.html (537 words)

	weblog of an american in paris
		Paris glistened for Christmas with the white lights in the trees on Ave Montaigne and Champs Elysées; a white and green forest land, sparkling with white lights at le Rond Point.
		He was the All American success story, French style, when he announced that he had been brought up in a foster home and had to fight his entire life for anything he had ever gotten and stated that this was the apotheosis of his career.
		Norman Rockwell is everywhere in Paris highlighting the Exhibition of “Auto portraits du XXeme Siecle” at the Musee du Luxembourg.
	sistergoldenhair.com /ellen.html (13059 words)

	The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: An American in Paris
		Elizabeth Angell, a 23-year-old American studying at Oxford, told me that a Pakistani friend at school had asked her if he could just watch her fill out her absentee ballot for the U.S. election.
		An Oxford student who had just returned from research in Iran told me that young Iranians were "loving anything their government hates," such as Mr.
		Bush, "and hating anything their government loves." Tehran is festooned in "Down With America" graffiti, the student said, but when he tried to take pictures of it, the Iranian students he was with urged him not to.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/01/20/opinion/20friedman.html?ex=1263963600&en=c59b494ba9112b92&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland (838 words)

	Roger L. Simon: An American in Paris
		Paris might be different in the peak season, but in the spring it was pretty friendly.
		In 2002, we were in Paris for a week over Bastille Day; and in 1997, we were on a "self-drive" canal boat in the Camargue (Languedoc) and on the Canal du Midi (in the vicinity of Carcassonne) in early July.
		Most of the French outside Paris were friendly in the same way I expect people in small towns of the USA to be friendlier than those of the big cities.
	www.rogerlsimon.com /mt-archives/2005/11/an_american_in.php (7614 words)

	Online NewsHour: An American in Paris- October 25, 1999
		And his definition is that we're beyond a superpower because we're a military superpower, we're an economic superpower, a financial superpower, a political superpower, and a cultural superpower.
		And they view this attack by us presumably as an attack on their culture, on their habits, on their being used to having a good bottle of wine and a wonderful piece of cheese and whatever.
		And we are an enormous being, because we're a continental economy.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/international/july-dec99/rohatyn_10-25.html (1375 words)

	The Globalist Global Culture -- An American in Paris
		In this excerpt from his book, "Paris in the Moon," author Adam Gopnik finds this to be especially true for an American in Paris.
		His book, "Paris to the Moon," is based on his experiences as a Paris correspondent for the magazine.
		A sensitive listener would detect some frost in the manner, but the American woman doesn't: "No, I asked you, does this bus go across the river?" Or, worse, Americans ordering in English at French menus, specifying precisely, exigently, what they want in a language the waiters don't speak.
	www.theglobalist.com /DBWeb/printStoryId.aspx?StoryId=2033 (579 words)

	An American in Paris (1951)
		Jerry Mulligan: This is Paris, and I'm an American who lives here.
		Gene Kelly's character is a poor painter living in Paris when his work gets discovered by a rich woman who offers to put them in a show.
		It was an easy way of explaining the dialog.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0043278 (627 words)

	USA WEEKEND Magazine
		He says he is shocked by the gun violence in American schools and feels it is far safer raising a family in France.
		The 18th-century tale of a man born with an extraordinary sense of smell.
		He realizes the absurdity of criticizing an industry that lets him live as he pleases in a French farmhouse near swanky St. Tropez and choose which roles he wants to play.
	www.usaweekend.com /03_issues/030706/030706johnny_depp.html (1263 words)

	An American in Paris
		In Paris he ended up ensconcing himself in the very "bobo" (bourgeois bohemian) neighborhood of St. Germain des Pres, on the left bank and home to Paris' university, the Sorbonne.
		Much of the humor in these essays comes from the expected clash of cultures that an American in France might face.
		David Sedaris on living in France: "People ask me if I miss it, but they don't understand that American culture is so ubiquitous that there's nothing to miss.
	www.webscapades.com /blog/anamericaninparis.htm (413 words)

	American Center Paris by Frank Gehry
		The American Center’s announcement in the mid 1980’s of their plans to commission and build Gehry’s geometrically challenging building in Bercy was immediately met with criticism.
		Unfortunately for the American Center, operating costs and growing debt forced the Center’s board of directors to close the building in January, 1996, only 19 months after it opened.
		A readable and particularly well illustrated description of 20 recent archiectural projects in Paris, including but not limited to the Grands Projets.
	www.galinsky.com /buildings/americancenter (315 words)

	An American in Paris
		The 17-minute fantasy ballet sequence, set to Gershwin& American In Paris Suite, sees Kelly and Caron pas de deux their way through a series of sets painted to resemble the work of various French painters.
		Ultimately, though, the plot of an MGM musical is a little like the ‘plot’ of a Jackie Chan film (or perhaps a porn flick) – a loose narrative framework on which to hang the scenes in which the experts do their thing.
		The musical numbers are not all great – an early trio about the glories of Strauss is especially head-scratching – but the camerawork of Vincente Minnelli as well as the set and costume design combine to create an overall effect that is irresistible.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies3/AmericaninParis.htm (809 words)

	An American In Paris
		An American In Paris was the 3rd highest-grossing film of the year.
		"In the title role, Gene Kelly plays a GI who decides to remain in Paris to study painting when he and his buddies are discharged after World War II.
		Their romance is complicated, however, by the glamorous and wealthy Nina Foch, who gives the young lovers a classic case of heartburn as she tries to buy Kelly's love by purchasing his paintings."
	members.aol.com /movieboy5/paris.html (302 words)

	Stephen Stills An American in Paris
		With a small Paris get-together successfully completed and a large CSNY extravagaza now finished, Stills is off to the States this week to finish his solo outing "As I Come Of Age".
		The locale had changed from London to Paris, the scenario switched from the mammoth Wembley Stadium to the more intimate Olympia Theatre, and the transition smoothly made from virtuoso songwriter/guitar star to an out-of-the-spotlight sideman.
		In addition to playing a cross country American, tour, Stills began his next solo album, "As I Come Of 'Age", which will be completed this month at Miami's Criterion Studios.
	www.4waysite.com /articles/stills_74.htm (5764 words)

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