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	An American in Paris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An American In Paris is also a 1951 film musical starring Gene Kelly.
		An American in Paris is a symphonic composition by American composer George Gershwin which debuted in 1928.
		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 (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)
		AAIP starts unusually, as we're introduced to three of the main characters in a very odd manner; the camera begins with Kelly's Jerry Mulligan and follows him through Paris as his voice-over discusses the specifics of his life.
		She sports an exceedingly uncomplimentary pixie-like haircut that only serves to accentuate her large mouth, all of which served to give her a serious case of horse face.
		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.
	www.dvdmg.com /americaninparis.shtml (1384 words)

	An American in Paris (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An American in Paris is a 1951 musical film based on the classical composition by George Gershwin.
		Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, the film is set in Paris, and directed by Vincente Minnelli from a script by Alan Jay Lerner.
		Gene Kelly received an honorary Academy Award that year for "his versatility as an actor, singer, director and dancer, and specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film." It was his only Oscar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/An_American_in_Paris_(Movie) (586 words)

	An American in Paris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		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.
	www.harvard-magazine.com /on-line/070517.html (2170 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: An American In Paris [1951]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		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.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000094P4V (762 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 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.
		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.
	www.alternet.org /election04/20551 (1460 words)

	An American in Paris
		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.
		While Caron became an overnight sensation upon the film's release, the experience was not an easy one for her.
		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.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Screen/5208/AiP.html (446 words)

	An American in Paris
		If an American (Caucasian) travels to Japan, it becomes extremely salient that he is ethnically different among the majority of Japanese.
		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.
	spaces.msn.com /arev11 (2669 words)

	Roger L. Simon: An American in Paris
		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.
		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.
		Paris might be different in the peak season, but in the spring it was pretty friendly.
	www.rogerlsimon.com /mt-archives/2005/11/an_american_in.php (7614 words)

	An American in Paris
		An hour and a half took us to a quaint northern Italian village, where my sister is staying in a monastery.
		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.
		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.
	johnaparis.blogspot.com (8981 words)

	An American in Paris by - The Globalist > > Global Culture
		In this excerpt from his book, "Paris in the Moon," author Adam Gopnik finds this to be especially true for an American in Paris.
		When people talk about globalization, what they're really saying is that an English-speaking imperium now stretches from Adelaide to Vancouver, and that anyone who is at home in one bit of it is likely to feel at home in the other bits.
		His book, "Paris to the Moon," is based on his experiences as a Paris correspondent for the magazine.
	www.theglobalist.com /DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=2033 (715 words)

	An American in Paris gives tips on cooking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		You are in Paris when you turn the pages of this book illustrated with candid fl-and-white photos of smiling chefs, food markets and French women lugging home their overflowing shopping bags.
		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.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05219/548854.stm (750 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)

	CNN - An American in Paris - June 14, 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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)

	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 we are an enormous being, because we're a continental economy.
		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.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/international/july-dec99/rohatyn_10-25.html (1375 words)

	An American Werewolf in Paris (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Landis (characters in An American Werewolf in London)
		An American Werewolf In Paris is an inferior sequel to An American Werewolf In London which was released in 1981.
		Some US students are in Europe and become embroiled in an adventure involving a society of werewolves.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0118604 (419 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.
		The architecture of the building might be understood best against the backdrop of Gehry’s struggles to build the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (roughly concurrent with the timeline of this project) and his eventual triumph at Bilbao.
	www.galinsky.com /buildings/americancenter (315 words)

	weblog of an american in paris
		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.
		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.
	sistergoldenhair.com /ellen.html (13059 words)

	An American in Paris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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 17-minute fantasy ballet sequence, set to Gershwin’s 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.
		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)

	Amazon.com: American in Paris (1994) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The film builds to its dramatic hallucinatory conclusion as Kelly dances his way across a Paris dreamscape, that brings all the elements of modern dance together in a tour-de-force that was unprecedented in musicals of that time.
		American in Paris & Singing in the Rain are stories from a time long that no longer exists.
		The dazzling seventeen-minute dance sequence of George Gershwin's 1928 orchestral piece, "An American in Paris", is an indisputable masterwork.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6301964284?v=glance (1445 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.
		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.
		The 18th-century tale of a man born with an extraordinary sense of smell.
	www.usaweekend.com /03_issues/030706/030706johnny_depp.html (1263 words)

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

	An American in Paris (1951) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jerry Mulligan: This is Paris, and I'm an American who lives here.
		It was an easy way of explaining the dialog.
		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.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0043278 (627 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)

	Stephen Stills An American in Paris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		An accurate analogy perhaps, for indeed when the inner workings of the foursome were at their magical best on stage, the players all knew.
		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".
	www.4waysite.com /articles/stills_74.htm (5764 words)

	An American in Paris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		Aside from working as an elf, Sedaris has worked as a painter, an apple picker, an aide in a mental hospital, a creative writing teacher in Chicago, and an apartment cleaner.
	www.webscapades.com /blog/anamericaninparis.htm (413 words)

	An American In Paris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"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."
		An American In Paris was the 3rd highest-grossing film of the year.
	members.aol.com /movieboy5/paris.html (302 words)

	Classical Net - Gershwin - An American in Paris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The whole piece, in fact, is an imaginative marvel, with surprises around every corner.
		The central slow-walk section is a glory of American music, perfectly capturing the nostalgia of a big-city Romantic.
		Use of text, images, or any other copyrightable material contained in these pages, without the written permission of the copyright holder, except as specified in the Copyright Notice, is strictly prohibited.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/works/gershwin/amparis.html (108 words)

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