PREMIER  ISSUE OF FANCY LIVING

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FANCY LIVING  MAGAZINE

DESIGNED AND PUBLISHED BY MAXIMILLIEN de LAFAYETTE. The ultimate sophistication guide for the ultimate sophisticated Jewish woman and Jewish man.

FANCY LIVING MAGAZINE is a monthly online magazine produced by the World Jewish News Agency in collaboration with LA FEMME MAGAZINE http://www.lafemmemagazine.com and DE LAFAYETTE WORLDMEDIA http://www.delafayetteworldmedia.org   Paris, London.

Publisher and Editor-in-Chief: Maximillien de Lafayette. Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Marie-Louise de Chambertin. Senior Editor: Germaine Poitiers. Managing Editor: Dr. Ruth Sielberg. Director of Production and Media Communications: Dr. Erica Soderholm. Chief Foreign Correspondent and Society Editor: Shoshannah Rosenberg. News and Essays: Dr. Esther Cohen-Hamilton. Director of Public Relations: Mordecai Ben Zvi.  Advertising and Marketing Director: Rachel Rosenthal. Photo-Montage/Graphics: Shlomo Grossman. Contact: agency@worldjewishnewsagency.org

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR..........................................................................................................................................P.2

The world's 25 best hotels, resorts and spas. By Maximillien de Lafayette. P.3- P.14.

FOOD AND DIET. P.15-16. HOW TO SELECT A GOOD PIECE OF BEEF: Selecting your cut.  HOW TO CHOOSE GOOD VEGETABLES

 

 

 

PERSONAL AND NATIONAL HEALTH: EATING THE RIGHT FOOD. P.17. Trying to eat more of the right things does not mean 'going on a diet', especially not one of the quick-fix diets so many celebrities are keen to endorse. True, you may lose weight with one of these, but it could well be only temporary. And you're likely to be less healthy as these diets don't provide all the nutrients you need...Read the full article

 

SECRETS TO GOOD HEALTH. P.18-P.19. Sick building syndrome (SBS) describes a situation whereby people experience symptoms of ill health that seem to be linked to spending time in a building - but where no specific cause can be identified. What are the symptoms? Some of the symptoms associated with SBS include: headaches, eye, nose or throat irritation, skin irritation, coughs,  nausea and fatigue. The symptoms rapidly improve after leaving the building. HEALTH AT THE WORKPLACE  FAMILY AND WORK BALANCE

NEW YORK 12 BEST NIGHTLIFE AND ENTERTAINMENT SPOTS. By Maximillien de Lafayette.  The most fun, the most lively and the most sophisticated. Animated by the best Jewish Divas in town. P.21-P.28. Read the full article

 

 

YAFFA RESTAURANT: BEST JEWISH, MIDDLE/NEAR EASTERN FOOD IN TRIBECA/MANHATTAN. P.29. By Maximillien de Lafayette.  A funky, friendly and cozy restaurant owned and managed by Yaffa Seror Faro, quite an unusual woman, a.k.a. The Gypsy Queen of Tribeca. If you are fond of authentic Middle/Near Eastern delights and specialties, then head right away toward Yaffa restaurant. And if you enjoy reading Kafka, Proust, Francoise Sagan, Lord Byron, Omar Khayam and Jean-Paul Sartre, dash into that restaurant and ask for Yafa, the proprietor and the existentialist story-teller. The food is superb and Yaffa herself is better. The menu is one of Yafa Faro’s controversial and most colorful delightful madness and creations, for every single dish on the list is named after a motion pictures star, a Hollywood legend and all those dashy-washy characters you can or would squeeze between. Omar Sharif dish is in demand here. If you are French, call it Boeuf Bourguignon. If you are a tourist lost between New York and New Jersey, then, call it Rudy Giuliani beef stew...Read the full article  

SOPHISTICATED GOSSIPS: Media, Stars, Personalities and gossips queens. By Maximillien de Lafayette. P.30-P.33

 

 

 

                                                    Photos from L to R: Larry King, Judy Woodruff, Deborah Norville, Arlene Peck, Monica Crowley

Photos from L to R: Gabriel Ahdoot, Anna Paglianos, Jeff Greenfield, Paulette Attie, Opera diva Allison England...Read the full article

SOPHISTICATED RECIPES AND TIPS OF THE MONTH. P.34

 

 

 

1-IDIOT'S ULTIMATE GUIDE TO ETIQUETTE AND GENTLEMAN SHIP.  THE DOS AND DON'TS IN DINING WITH A JEWISH PRINCESS.  By Maximillien de Lafayette.P.35-P.37

Photo: Esther: "One way to deal with him."

Mon cher ami, whether you are a Jew or a gentile, what would you offer a Jewish princess, Michele Alliot-Marie, the Secretary of Defense of France,  the majestic Monica Crowley, the walking gossips encyclopedia, Joan Rivers, the outrageous Anna Nicole Smith, a bankrupt woman who teaches creative financing and financial success at NYU or a humble Filipina woman who cleans your house, if you ask them out? What would you offer them to drink, if you go on a date with any of them? Champagne, a blessed water by your parish priest, a  frozen Martini, a Rolling Rock, a Calvados,  a Petrus, an Armagnac, a Sancerres or a Hershey's syrup? Shame on you if you do not choose Champagne. Really, it does not make any difference, nor it does alter the refined manners protocol, and the way you treat a lady, whether you go out with a woman of a privileged status or a woman who drives a truck four by four with an expired license plate. All women are ladies and deserve the ultimate respect and your "savoir faire". If you do not agree,  get a life, coconut head...Read full article    

2-ART AND SCIENCE OF JEWISH DATING ACCORDING TO LEAH FURMAN. AMERICA'S NUMBER 1 JEWISH DATING EXPERT. P.38-P.42. Leah is going to tell us  Who is and who  is not "A PERFECT DATE"? Just ask her, and Leah will tell you about it. Why safety and caution are extremely important on a first date? Leah has the answer. How important SEX is on a first, second, third or ad infinitum date? Leah will explain it to you. Are Jewish American men refined with a savoir-faire? Leah knows and in this interview, Leah is going to tell us about the whole mumbo jumbo charade. Her new book on sex and dating is taking the country by storm. And this is the force majeure for writing about this enigmatic and fabulous writer femme fatale with brains and beauty...Read the full article

 

3-SECRET OF JEWISH FLIRTING AND DATING ACCORDING TO JUDITH LEDERMAN. P.43.  When Judith Lederman “winks” at a man on a dating site, she may be flirting…but then again, she may be working. “I had two problems to solve,” explains Judith Lederman, president of JSL Publicity & Marketing http://www.jslpublicity.com  in New Rochelle, New York.  “As a newly separated single mom, I wanted to boost my non-existent social life—but I also had to find new clients.  Being completely on my own with no adjunct income was a scary prospect.” Judith did what many newly single people do.  She signed up for several dating sites... Read the full article

 

AMERICA'S 100 GREATEST JEWISH WOMEN.P.44-P.47. BY MAXIMILLIEN de LAFAYETTE. We did not write about them and  print their photos, because their husbands or fiancés bought them a $4 million diamond ring or a $140,000 Christian Dior's wedding gown and became a celebrity overnight! We did, because, meaningfully, they contributed to our society, to arts, to humanities, to education, to science and world peace. They are here, not because, they threw the best parties in the Hamptons, Ibiza or Malibu, or because Joan Rivers said so, the National Enquirer gossiped about them, or because, they know the difference between Calvados, Chateau D'Yquem and root bear. They are on our list, because, they brought warmth to our families, light to our eyes, tender whispers and gentle affection to our hearts, and....because they are the best in their fields! We selected them, because they have heart, brains, presence, principles, culture, remarkable accomplishments, "un je ne sais quoi", a certain mesmerizing aura, perhaps, some have a delightful madness Read the full article and see their photos!

CELEBRITIES AND PROFILES. Gabriel Ahdoot, Marianne Mcpartland, Dr. Monica Crowley, Paula Zhan, Arlene Peck.P.48...Read the full article

TIPS FOR DEALING AND SOCIALIZING WITH FOREIGNERS, IRANIANS, GREEKS, JAPANESE, FRENCH, ITALIANS, LEBANESE, MUSLIMS AND ARABS.  By Maximillien de Lafayette. CAN WE GENERALIZE SOCIAL BEHAVIOR AND ATTRIBUTES OF NATIONS AND PEOPLE?P.49-P.53

 

Can we generalize and stigmatize particular ethnic characteristics of a nation or a “people” to define what distinguished their ethnicity from other groups and social structures? In other words, would it be fair and intelligent to represent, describe and depict people, societies and countries according to suspicions, common beliefs and stereotyped clichés? Honestly, NO! However,  political experiences and history taught us, that, to a certain degree of social veracity and historical accuracy, some aspects, facets, way of life, traditions, culture and social  characteristics, including behavior (individually or globally) could be adhered to the description of the nature and psyche of a nation and particular ethnic groups...Read full article

THE BEST PEOPLE, IDEAS, SHOWS AND PLACES IN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY. From exhibits and shows to people, places, and ideas whether you like it or not.P.54

 

 

 

Photos from L to R: Barbara Lowin, Opera Diva Allison England, Patricia Barber....Read the full article

1-2006 Fashion.  P.55-P.56

2-What to wear when you are pregnant. Buying a new wardrobe is every woman's dream, but finding the right balance of comfort and chic when watching your waist and breasts expand during pregnancy can be tricky. P.57-P.61

 

ARI ACKERMAN, MAN OF THE HOUR! NEW YORK MOST ELIGIBLE JEWISH BACHELOR. P.62. Ari Ackerman, 32 year old,  is one of the brightest pioneering entrepreneurs and strategic thinkers in the nation. This, makes him New York City most eligible bachelor. Grosso modo, Ackerman is the symbol of  THE perfect success blended with an intoxicating charisma and bright, very bright visionary mind. A pioneer to some, a genius to others, and a role model to millions of aspiring leaders and youngsters who want to make it big in life. Six years ago,  Ari Ackerman, (President and CEO of BUNK1, a web site bringing super high-tech tools and software of the Internet to the summer camp industry) thought about a quasi revolutionary entrepreneurial idea. Nobody encouraged him to go ahead with his creative visions. For, many believed that Ackerman's ideas would and could not work. But Ari Ackerman knew better. When he started out, his father said to him: ‘What's wrong with you, are you nuts? You turned down a $150,000 a year job to do this?!"  Ackerman had a dream, a vision with a lot of guts. He was determined to succeed in business and life despite all odds. You could say , Ackerman is a pragmatic dreamer with romantic but extremely effective shrewd approach to business....Read the full story

WOMEN OF THE WORLD IN PICTURES. By Maximillien de Lafayette. P.63-P.67. Lao Tzu was the first to say "One image is worth one thousand words." And so Did Marco Polo and Vasco de Gamma after having discovered unknown parts of the world. And to depict the unpleasant character of Popes, Michelangelo and Raphael froze their portraits in illustrations and pictures so future centuries and generation will remember those Papal characters. We see and understand our universe through photographs. Sure, we feel the cosmos and its parallel world with our hearts and imagination but, only photographs capture the moment, the message, the hidden, the revealed, the damned, the sacred, the holly and the forbidden. In this first issue of "Fancy Living" we tried to illustrate and depict our  "current" world with photos which in my opinion are  the truthful messenger, voice and echo of our societies around the globe. Some photographs are  sophisticated and hilarious while others are melodramatic and depressing. Some are refreshing while many others are alarming...Read the full article

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Cameron Diaz took the stand Thursday in a criminal trial that involves topless photos taken of her before she became a well-known actress. P.68

Photo: Cameron Diaz took the stand Thursday in the trial of a man accused of extorting her over topless photos from before she became famous.

LOS ANGELES.  Giggling about her early modelling career, Cameron Diaz took the stand Thursday in a criminal trial that involves topless photos taken of her before she became a well-known actress. Diaz, wearing a brown top and pants, described how she entered modelling and went overseas when she was 16. "I had four pictures in my book, and I went to Japan. Didn't work,'' she said, laughing...Read the full article

Arnold Schwarzenegger is being paid at least $1Million a year for a consultant job for fitness magazines. P.68

Photo: Mr Schwarzenegger has denied any conflict of interest

American Media Operations said the former actor, who is governor of California, was receiving 1% of the company's advertising revenue.  Critics say the deal could amount to a conflict of interest. The governor's spokeswoman denied any conflict, saying he had complied with laws on revealing income. Mr Schwarzenegger, who was elected in 2003, has rejected his $175,000-a-year salary as governor. But California law allows governors and other elected officials to keep outside jobs....Read the full article

A group of French speakers in Japan are suing the governor of Tokyo after he described French as a failed language. P.68

Photo: Shintaro Ishihara is known in Japan for his outspoken remarks

The 21 teachers and researchers are demanding compensation and an apology for the "insulting remarks" from Governor Shintaro Ishihara. Mr Ishihara is accused of saying he was not surprised French did not qualify as an international language, as it was "a language which cannot count numbers". The veteran politician is well-known for his outspoken comments...Read the full article

Diana portrait moved as Charles visits. P.68

LONDON- Officials at a city hall in Wales avoided a potentially awkward situation, moving a portrait of Princess Diana from a wall just before a visit by Prince Charles. Charles was due to have passed the portrait after making an address in the council chamber Thursday, but the painting was rehung in a corridor the prince didn't pass through. Officials in the Welsh capital, Cardiff, denied that the painting -- which features a young Diana in three different poses -- had been moved from the main hall to avoid upsetting Charles and his new wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, who accompanied him on the visit....Read the full article

Sheryl Crow: "Make 'em suffer." P.68

Photo: Six-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong of Austin, Texas, right, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, looks at his girlfriend, singer Sheryl Crow, after the Discovery Channel cycling team won the fourth stage of the Tour de France cycling race.

MONTPELLIER, France- If Sheryl Crow wrote a song about Lance Armstrong, the title would be simple and to the point: "Make 'em suffer."  "His little boy (Luke) always says, `Make 'em suffer daddy,' so it definitely would incorporate that phrase," Crow said in an interview. The 43-year-old rocker is on her second Tour de France, and is relishing seeing boyfriend Armstrong power his way to what could be his seventh straight win. Heading into Friday's 13th stage of the 23-day event, Armstrong held a commanding lead over his main rivals....Read the full article

Martha Stewart writes sophisticated book during house arrest. P .68

NEW YORK -- Martha Stewart is using some of her time under house arrest to write a guidebook for entrepreneurs who want to follow her path to business success.  The founder of the Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. merchandising and media empire is serving a five-month term at her home in Bedford, New York, after recently completing five months in a West Virginia federal prison for lying about a stock sale...Read the full article

REFLECTION ON LIFE. P.69 1-It Is Too easy For Men, by Arlene Peck

2-What Life Taught Me, by Maximillien de Lafayette

Housewives Came First. P.80

LOS ANGELES -- Desperate Housewives, a dark satire about suburbia that became an instant hit in its debut season, was among the top Emmy nominees announced Thursday. The ABC series, competing in the comedy category, received 15 nominations, sharing status as series front-runner with the NBC sitcom Will & Grace, which also got 15.  Premium cable channel HBO once again dominated the made-for-TV movie category with two of its films: The Life and Death of Peter Sellers and Warm Springs, each garnering 16 bids to top all nominees.  Nominations for the 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were announced in an early morning ceremony at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre.  There were Emmy riches for both departing series and newcomers...Read the full article

ULTIMATE SOPHISTICATED STARS BY JACQUES COYLE. P.81

Photo: Fashion plate Natalie Portman shaved her head to do the superhero thing in an upcoming film from the Wachowski brothers, makers of the Matrix trilogy.

Who can blame Vincent Chase, the movie-star character on HBO's Entourage, for his Aquaman ultimatum? He understands that superhero films teeter on a precarious edge between laughable (Cat Woman) and arguably brilliant (Spider-Man). There's no current plan for a King of the Seven Seas flick, but this year has already seen Fantastic Four, Batman Begins, Sin City, Constantine and Elektra. And waiting in the wings are dozens of superheroes, each poised to either make movie history (X-Men) or get ridiculed into oblivion (Daredevil). On Thursday, tens of thousands of comic enthusiasts began descending on San Diego for the annual Comic-Con convention...Read the full article

 

The US opera star said she would choose a singer with a "really beautiful voice" over a "stunning-looking woman" with an average voice. P.81

Photo: Fleming said an ex-manager told her she was too heavy for roles.

Opera houses should value artistry and talent above beauty in their singers, according to Renee Fleming, who sang on the Lord of the Rings films soundtrack. The US opera star said she would choose a singer with a "really beautiful voice" over a "stunning-looking woman" with an average voice....Read the full article

 

 

CHAT WITH ARLENE PECK. P.82. The one and only, Arlene Peck with Michael Lerner and Pat Boone on her worldwide famous show ":WOW! IT'S ARLENE PECK. Arlene tells the truth and much more about the famous and the infamous, the vain and the fun...

MOST SOPHISTICATED AND FABULOUS TIMES, FASHION, ARTS, PLACES AND PEOPLE. By Maximillien de Lafayette. P.103-P.121.

Mon Dieu! To be and live in Paris during "Les annees folles", between the end of  1917 and 1934, especially if you were an eccentric artist, an intellectual adventurer, a frou-frou femme fatale, a genius or an independently wealthy American, willing to spend a lot of money on arts, dating and women. Ask Madonna, Paulette Attie, Penelope de Vassy and Louise de Chambertin. Really "real" America's la crème de la crème was there. The "real" American high society, the privileged class, the snobs (Although it was too early for the Americans to know how to be a snob), les bourgeois,  wealth filthy characters, the hustlers with a style, the scandalous adventurous women, the schmoozer and the cruisers, the handsome gigolos, the champagne, the caviar, the kisses and the misses, sex, the drama and all the "chic" pleasures of the era. Hemingway was here. Paramour Stein too. Why Paris - what made everybody want to come here and create, and drink, and dance, and paint, and write stories or invent them? Women? obnoxious, over-cultured and over-sophisticated Frenchmen? Bubbly champagne? Sinfully good wine? Nice plat de fromage? A nostalgia? A fantasy? A new social, political and artistic era? A modern Parisian revolution?...Read the full article

AMERICA'S SOPHISTICATED AND SEXIEST WOMEN BY MAXIMILLIEN de LAFAYETTE. P.122-P.127. TWENTY  YEARS AGO…THESE LADIES WERE AMERICA’S BEST AND: THE SEXIEST, THE CLASSIEST, THE MOST INFLUENTIAL, THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS, THE FEMMES FATALES AND THE MOST FAMOUS WOMEN IN THE COUNTRY!! WHERE ARE THEY NOW??   Would you believe, Katharine Graham, one of America's most conservative and traditional women was selected -years ago, of course- as one of the sexiest women in Washington and America? Art Buchwald said so!...Read the full article

2006 SPRING-SUMMER FASHION DESIGNERS PICS OF THE MONTH. P. 128-P.129

 

 

 

 

 

 

CLASSIEST, MOST ELEGANT AND WORST DRESSED STARS OF THE YEAR. P.130.-P.131 WORST DRESSED STARS OF THE YEAR. P.132.-P.134        

 

 

 

 

The 100 Most Powerful Women in the World. Jewish women take the lead (2004-2005)...USA MOST POWERFUL WOMEN (National Influence, 2004-2005). P. 135.-P.136. Read the full article

World's Richest Women. The Billionaires. Jewish Women Take the Lead.P.137...Read the full article

 

AMERICANS VERSUS FOREIGNERS: What foreigners like and dislike most about American men and women. By Maximillien de Lafayette. P. 137.-P.142. Read the full article.

ANNA BERGMAN

France had Piaf. Portugal gave us Amalia.  Italy gave to the world Gabriella Ferri. The Arab world offered to the Orient Oum Khalthoum...and America brought to life an artist larger than life: Anna Bergman!! P. 143.-P.146.

Anna Bergman is tailored made for world cabaret. She is Jewish. She is cosmopolitan. She is American. She is a dear dear friend. And she is the best French-American Cabaret Singer. Unquestionably. The phrase "La Crème de La Crème" was hand written to accentuate the class, finesse, talent and persona of Anna Bergman. In my book, she is "La Chanteuse" par excellence...Read the full article.

 

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