Saturday Reads and Aznavour Obituary

Now that the idiots in the U.S. Senate have voted to confirm a drunk and a rapist to the high court, it might be time to ask when we will ever have a honest conversation about male sadism.

So many men are completely fucked up thanks to pornography coupled with entitlement, it is no wonder more and more women are rejecting them.
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Obituary:  Singer and sometimes actor Charles Aznavour, 94, died, and his funeral service was a big deal.    He died earlier this past week.

He was better known as a singer than as an actor.  He was called the "French Frank Sinatra," but at least Sinatra didn't debase himself by appearing in arguably the worst movie ever made, 1968's Candy.  As for Chuck, he was one of the last surviving actors  who embarrassed himself in the pic.  He played a hunchback, as I recall, trying to assault or succeeding in assaulting "star" Ewa Aulin, one of the few women in the cast and who played the title role.  The movie was and is an abomination.

Aznavour, however, didn't suffer from this travesty.  He continued on.

He had at least three wives and six children.

An appreciation:

His accomplishments were prodigious. He wrote, by his own estimate, more than 1,000 songs, for himself and for others, and sang them in French, Armenian, English, German, Italian, Spanish and Yiddish. By some estimates, he sold close to 200 million records. He appeared in more than 60 films, beginning with bit parts as a child. His best-known film role was probably as a pianist with a mysterious past in François Truffaut’s eccentric 1960 crime drama Shoot the Piano Player – a part that Truffaut said he had written specifically for Aznavour.

Chahnour Varenagh Aznavourian was born in Paris on May 22nd, 1924. His parents, Mischa and Knar (Baghdasarayan) Aznavourian, who were both entertainers, had come to France fleeing Turkish oppression. When the Aznavourians were denied visas to America, they opened a restaurant near the Sorbonne and made the city their home.

In 1933, at the age of 9, Charles was enrolled in acting school, and he was soon part of a troupe of touring child actors. At 11, in Paris, he played the youthful Henry IV in a play starring celebrated French actress and singer Yvonne Printemps.

One of his biggest hits, in glorious English:







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