Le Cirque is a French restaurant in Manhattan owned and operated by Sirio Maccioni. It first opened at the Mayfair Hotel on East 65th Street in 1974. It closed and reopened as Le Cirque 2000 at the Palace Hotel in 1997. The latest installation of Le Cirque opened in 2006 in the Bloomberg Tower building at One Beacon Court (151 East 58th Street). The current flagship location is a 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m²) restaurant designed by interior designer Adam Tihany,^[1] architect Costas Kondylis. The architectural lighting design was completed by Paul Gregory, principal of Focus Lighting Inc. There is a second flagship restaurant at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas that holds One Michelin Star and a AAA Five-Diamond rating.^[2] The Maccioni family also owns and operates Osteria del Circo in two locations: Manhattan on 120 W 55th St and Las Vegas in the Bellagio Hotel as well as Sirio Ristorante inside Aria in Las Vegas.

From 1986 to 1992, Daniel Boulud was executive chef.^[3] He was succeeded by Pierre Schaedelin, Christophe Bellanca, and Craig Hopson.^[4]

In 2008, Gayot named the restaurant one of its "Top 40 Restaurants in the United States",^[5] a status it has maintained to the present day.

In July 2009, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the former President of the Philippines was highly criticized for her supposed outlandish dinner at Le Cirque with the Philippine delegation during her visit to the United States.^[6] President Arroyo and her group reportedly had dinner for the cost of $20,000 or P1,000,000 as reported in the New York Post.^[7]

The family's efforts to transition the restaurant to its current location was featured in the documentary film Le Cirque: A Table In Heaven directed by Andrew Rossi.^[8]

Footnotes[link]

References[link]

• Le Cirque Official Website
• Osteria del Circo Official Website
• Bruni, Frank (February 6, 2008). "In Defense of Decadence". New York Times. http://events.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/dining/reviews/06rest.html?scp=1&sq=squab&st=nyt. Retrieved February 24, 2008. 
• The return of Sirio and Le Cirque to New York New York Restaurant Insider, June 2006

Victoria Chaplin (born May 19, 1951) is an Anglo-American actress, the daughter of actor/comedian Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill Chaplin, and the granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill.

She was born in Santa Monica, California in 1951, the fourth of 8 children, her eldest sister being the actress Geraldine Chaplin. Her father left America in 1952 and the family moved to Switzerland. She was also half-sister to Sydney Chaplin, Charles Chaplin, Jr. and Norman Chaplin.

She appeared in her father's film, A Countess from Hong Kong, and he wanted her to star as an angel in his next film called The Freak. However she met the French actor Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée and they eloped to get married.^[1] The film was not made, though costume test photos of Victoria were taken and one was published in Chaplin's final book, My Life in Pictures, in which he stated his desire to still make the film. She and her husband created Le cirque bonjour, then Le cirque imaginaire, later Le cirque invisible, travelling contemporary circuses which some credit as a source of inspiration for Cirque du Soleil. Their children, Aurélia Thiérrée, (born 24 September 1971),^[2] and James Thiérrée, (born 2 May 1974), both performed as children with their parents and went on to have acting careers as adults.

Filmography[link]

• A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) - young girl
• Le Cirque imaginaire (1989) TV series

References[link]

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DJ Mehdi
DJ Mehdi in February 2011
Background information
Birth name	Mehdi Favéris-Essadi
Born	(1977-01-20)20 January 1977 Hauts-de-Seine, France
Died	13 September 2011(2011-09-13) (aged 34) Paris, France
Genres	hip hop, electro
Occupations	musician
Labels	Ed Banger Records
Associated acts	Mafia K-1 Fry
Website	DJ Mehdi on Myspace

Mehdi Favéris-Essadi (20 January 1977^{[citation needed]} – 13 September 2011^[1]), better known by his stage name DJ Mehdi, was a French hip hop and electro producer of mixed French and Tunisian origin.

Biography[link]

Mehdi was born of Tunisian background in Hauts-de-Seine, the northwestern suburbs of Paris. He was a former disc jockey of the groups Different Teep (ex-group of Manu Key & Lil Jahson), Ideal J and former member of the collective the Mafia K'1 Fry. He was also a long time the quasi-appointed producer of the group 113 and carried out the nearly all the production of the albums for Different Teep and Karlito. Amid his work, Mehdi had remixed various electronic acts and composition soundtracks for many French and international films.

After having been recognized for his efforts and budding into one of the French underground hip hop music scene’s premier producers, DJ Mehdi henceforth pushed boundaries by mixing hip hop and electronic music. He collaborated with such notable artists as Daft Punk, Cassius, MC Solaar, Futura 2000, Asian Dub Foundation and Chromeo among others.^[2] “Coming from a rap music background, it’s always nice to collaborate within other music genres…Paris is very inspiring because a lot of people are making great stuff, music and in other arts related fields also. My music and philosophies revolve around beats and blues, that’s how I would try to describe it.”

Signing to cross-genre label Ed Banger Records, Mehdi and Pedro Winter (aka Busy P) were working on various disco-hop sounds the two as far back as 1997. Together they hosted a very successful monthly night at former Paris nightspot Pulp. “I like to be the DJ, I love it so much. I love to try new things. You would never get into this business to be bored, or you would hope not.”

Mehdi released his first full-length LP in 2002 The Story of Espion, followed by his second album, Lucky Boy, in August 2006. With the popularity of cross genre hip hop into such areas as indie and electronic music, popularization by Timbaland and other labels from the United States in more recent years had assisted to bridge the gap between dance genres.

Mehdi's single "I Am Somebody" was used in a 2007 American commercial for XM radio. More recently, DJ Mehdi was part of a group of friends and DJ's collectively known as "Club 75" which includes Cassius, Busy P and Xavier de Rosnay (Justice). He launched a project together with Riton in 2010 that was titled "Carte Blanche".

Mehdi died on September 13, 2011, when the skylight of his Paris home collapsed while he was celebrating his close friend Riton's birthday with a group of friends on the roof. Mehdi was the only fatality, while three others were injured.^[3][4]

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

Ideal J

• Original Mc's Sur Une MIssion (1996)
• Le Combat Continue (1998)

113

• Ni barreaux, ni barrières, ni frontières (1998)
• Les Princes De La Ville (1999)
• Fout La Merde (2002)

Karlito

• Contenu Sous Pression (2001)

Mapei

• Cocoa Butter Diaries (2009)

Solo work

• The Story Of Espion (2002)
• Des Friandises Pour Ta Bouche (2005)
• Lucky Boy (2006)
• Lucky Boy at Night (2007)

Singles[link]

• "Wonderbra" ("Paradisiaque", Mc Solaar) (1997)
• "Classik" / "Au Fond De Mon Cœur" / "Esclave 2000" ("Touche D'Espoir", Assassin) (2000)
• "A L'Anciene" / "Les Points Sur Les I Remix" ("Les Points Sur Les I", Intouchable) (2000)
• "Le Ssem" / "Le Jeu de La Mort" ("La Vie Avant La Mort", Rohff) (2001)
• "Couleur Ebène" ("Ouest Side", Booba) (2006)
• "I am Somebody" ("I am Somebody", DJ Mehdi, real: So_Me) (2007)
• "Signatune" (2007)

Remixes[link]

• 1997 Koma – "Realite Rap" (DJ Mehdi RMX)
• 1998 113 – "Les Evadés" (Remix)
• 1999 Cassius – "Feeling for You" (Cambridge Circus Mix)
• 2000 Joakim Lone Octet – "Oleg Dans Les Bois" (DJ Mehdi Remix)
• 2000 Manu Key – "Si Tu Savais" (Remix)
• 2001 Akhenaton – "K (AKH)" (DJ Mehdi Remix/DJ Mehdi Instrumental Remix)
• 2002 Next Evidence – "Dance On" (DJ Mehdi Remix/DJ Mehdi's Dub)
• 2002 Etienne de Crécy – "Out of My Hands" (DJ Mehdi Remix)
• 2003 Asian Dub Foundation – "Fortress Europe" (Techno Organisation Remix)
• 2004 Wayne Shorter – "Footprints" (Dub aka DJ Mehdi Remix)
• 2006 Architecture in Helsinki – "In Case We Die"
• 2006 New Young Pony Club – "Ice Cream" (DJ Mehdi Remix)
• 2007 Outlines- "Just a Lil' Lovin" (album)
• 2008 Sam Sparro – "21st Century Life"" (DJ Mehdi Secret Disco Dub)
• 2009 Erol Alkan & Boys Noize – "Death Suite" (DJ Mehdi's Simple Acid Edit)
• 2009 Miike Snow – "Burial" (DJ Mehdi Remix)
• 2009 Miike Snow – ANDY FING P.
• 2010 Zombie Nation – Overshoot (DJ Mehdi Remix)

References[link]

External links[link]

• DJ Mehdi on Myspace
• Discogs.com: DJ Mehdi

Michel Courtemanche (born December 11, 1964 in Laval, Quebec, Canada) is a Québécois comedian and actor. He has drawn hundreds of thousands to his one-man shows in Quebec, France, Belgium and Switzerland.

His debut one-man show, A New Comic is Born, ran for more than five hundred performances and earned him two Felix nominations. It was first performed in Montreal in 1989. His second, The New Adventures of Michel Courtemanche, first performed in 1992, filled theatres in both North America and Europe and spawned his second international hit video (1993).

Courtemanche has internationally sold out enormous houses usually reserved for rock stars (although such shows are quite commonplace for comedians in Quebec). He has even inspired a popular one-of-a-kind hardcover comic book. He has starred in Québécois films La Nuit de Noces and Karmina 2, and on the Secret Adventures of Jules Verne television series, on the Sci Fi Channel (United States).

His style of comedy can be best summed up as mime combined with sound effects, as he is most often seen interacting with invisible objects or even people and using his voice to complete the scene. He is also particularly good at making remarkable grimaces.

Since 2002, he moved behind the camera; his production company, Encore Télévision, produces the French-Canadian edition of a sitcom called Caméra café, which was adapted from French television.

See also[link]

• List of Quebec comedians
• Humour of Quebec
• Culture of Quebec

External links[link]

• Michel Courtemanche at the Internet Movie Database
• YouTube - Michel Courtemanche: Golfer