Jean Fardulli's Blue Angel is the first top local club to import that crazy new dance, the Twist.

The book is by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, choreography by Peter Gennaro, scenery, costumes and lighting by William and Jean Eckart, musical direction by Jack Elliott, and the production was directed by Mr. Abbott.

Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.

The astylar design is by Jean Chalgrin ( 1739 – 1811 ), in the Neoclassical version of ancient Roman architecture ( see, for example, the triumphal Arch of Titus ).

The Mayor of Bayonne ( 1995 – 2007 ) is Jean Grenet of the centre-right UMP.

According to Jean Favier, Bouvines is " one of the decisive battles of history and symbolic of France ".

Except for one shot of the woman mentioned above sleeping and suddenly waking up, the film is composed entirely of photographs by Jean Chiabaud and stars Davos Hanich as the man, Hélène Chatelain as the woman and filmmaker William Klein as a man from the future.

The 1780s saw the arrival of the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, who is believed to be of Haitian and French descent.

According to Jean Daniélou, this schema is inherited from a Judaeo-Christian esotericism, followed by the Apostles, which was only imparted orally to those Christians who could be trusted which such mysteries.

Jean Baudrillard has also been described as a critical theorist to the extent that he was an unconventional and critical sociologist ; this appropriation is similarly casual, holding little or no relation to the Frankfurt School.

He was a prominent person during the Enlightenment and is best known for serving as co-founder and chief editor of and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d ' Alembert.

In Jean Cocteau's 1946 film La Belle et la Bête it is Diana's power which has transformed and imprisoned the beast.

Jacques Derrida argued that access to meaning and the ' real ' was always deferred, and sought to demonstrate via recourse to the linguistic realm that " There is nothing outside the text "; at the same time, Jean Baudrillard theorised that signs and symbols or simulacra mask reality ( and eventually the absence of reality itself ), particularly in the consumer world.

Jean Bottero ( 1952 ) and others suggested that Ia in this case is a West Semitic ( Canaanite ) way of saying Ea, Enki's Akkadian name, associating the Canaanite theonym Yahu, and ultimately Hebrew YHWH.

But the first public screening of film ever is due to Jean Aimé " Acme " Le Roy, a French photographer.

However, the Vitagraph film-makers continued to be a little uneasy with the device, as a true POV shot is introduced by an explanatory intertitle, " What they saw in the house across the court " in Larry Trimble's Jean and the Waif, made at the end of 1910.

Urologist Jean Fourcroy writes that women in countries that practise FGM call it one of the " three feminine sorrows ": the first sorrow is the procedure itself, followed by the wedding night when a woman with Type III has to be cut open, then childbirth when she has to be cut again.

" Michel De Villeneuve " had contracts with Jean Frellon for that work, and the Servetus scholar-researcher Francisco Javier González Echeverría presented research that became an accepted communication in the International Society for the History of Medicine which concluded that Michael De Villeneuve ( Michael Servetus ) is the author of the commentaries of this edition of Frellon, in Lyon.

Belgian player Jean " Toots " Thielemans is a well-known master of jazz chromatic harmonica, as well as a champion whistler, who has been recorded on many notable songs in film and television, such as the theme from Sesame Street, and the score from the Academy Award winning film Midnight Cowboy.

* Jean Charest, born of an Irish-Canadian mother, is Premier of Quebec, Canada.

He is later joined by Henry " Hank " McCoy, Jean Grey, and Warren Worthington III as the founding members of the X-Men.

Jardines is controlled by the Keswick family, who are direct descendants of William Jardine's sister Jean through the marriage of her daughter to Thomas Keswick, father of William Keswick, an early Tai-pan of the firm.

" Samuel Smiles stated that he was " the scion of a distinguished Béarnese family "; although it is probable that the poverty of his parents would have excluded him from a learned career if some of the leading Protestants of the district had not charged themselves with the expenses of his education, which was begun under M. Jean de la Placette, the minister of Nay, He studied at Puylaurens, the Academy of Saumur, and the Academy of Sedan, receiving the degree of doctor in theology, it is said, at the age of seventeen.

Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants terribles ( 1929 ), and the films Blood of a Poet ( 1930 ), Les Parents terribles ( 1948 ), Beauty and the Beast ( 1946 ), and Orpheus ( 1949 ).

Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants terribles ( 1929 ), and the films Blood of a Poet ( 1930 ), Les Parents terribles ( 1948 ), Beauty and the Beast ( 1946 ), and Orpheus ( 1949 ).

This is where his career as a photographer began, and where James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau and the others filed in and posed in black and white.

Moreno's influences include such bands as The Cure, Bad Brains, The Smiths, My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, Duran Duran, The Smashing Pumpkins, Depeche Mode, Helmet, Jawbox, Faith No More, Hum, Kool Keith, Alice in Chains, Tool, Jane's Addiction and Weezer, and claims that Deftones ' 2006 album, Saturday Night Wrist, is more of a compromise between all of the members ' influences, ranging from their brutal and brooding heavy signature seen on Adrenaline and Around the Fur to the more experimental sound heard on White Pony and Deftones.

But that is only one reading of how the Groupe des Six originated: other authors, like Ornella Volta, would stress the manoeuvrings of Jean Cocteau to become the leader of an avant-garde group devoted to music, like the cubist and surrealist groups had sprung in visual arts and literature shortly before, with Pablo Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire and André Breton as their key representatives.

The fact that Satie had abandoned the Nouveaux jeunes less than a year after starting the group, was the " gift from heaven " that made it all come true for Cocteau: his 1918 publication Le coq et l ' Arlequin is said to have ticked it off.

* A key part of the 1950 film adaptation of the myth of Orpheus by Jean Cocteau is a mysterious radio station broadcasting random phrases ( in fact transmitted by Cégeste on the orders of Death ).

Marie Vassilieff's own artwork is primarily in the Cubist style, her most interesting paintings are portraits of dancers as well as those of her friends, Jean Cocteau, Picasso, and Matisse.

* Jean Cocteau is elected to both the Académie française and the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique.

Head over Heels is the second album by Scottish musical group Cocteau Twins.

Orpheus (; also the title used in the UK ) is a 1950 French film directed by Jean Cocteau and starring Jean Marais.

Throughout Orpheus, Cocteau uses very simple special effects and trick shots to show his characters passing into the world of death and back to life: They do so by stepping through mirrors, or else the film is reversed.

Under the auspices of Jean Cocteau, a prize for ' best avant-garde ' is specially created and awarded to Isou ’ s film.

* Prince Cocteau the Thrice Blessed ( The Beast ): He is the Beast Prince, the guardian of the Isle of the Beast.

The name is inspired by Jean Cocteau, the director of the 1946 French adaptation of the story.

It is as though Cocteau was doing a very detailed description of Bromige ’ s life.

Heaven or Las Vegas is the sixth album by Scottish rock group Cocteau Twins, their last for the music label 4AD.

In terms of chart positions, it is the most successful Cocteau Twins album, reaching number seven in the UK.

Milk & Kisses is the eighth album by Cocteau Twins issued in 1996.

The soaring vocal style of lead singer Wendy Page has been compared with both Kate Bush and The Cocteau Twins but the music is otherwise hard to categorise.

As the title indicates, the premise of the series is inspired by the fairy tale " Beauty and the Beast "; in particular, there is some connection to the Jean Cocteau French film of 1946, La Belle et la Bête.

Parade is a ballet with music by Erik Satie and a one-act scenario by Jean Cocteau.

It is supposed that such additions by Cocteau showed his eagerness to create a succes de scandale, comparable to that of Igor Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps which had been premiered by the Ballets Russes some years before.