Ex-Bulldog takes the lead at Fox Sep 18, 2008
Former Bulldog plays lead in Victor Hugo s Les Miserables ... As far as 80s mega-musicals, it doesn t get much grander than Les Miserables, based on French writer Victor Hugo s intricately plotted tale of the sweltering underworld of 19th century Paris ... The art of Victor Hugo. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Bolivians back Morales in recall vote Aug 11, 2008
Victor Hugo Cardenas -- an Aymara native like Morales who was vice president from 1993-97 -- predicted Sunday's vote would only make South America's poorest nation "even more difficult to govern.". But on the wind-swept shores of Lake Titicaca, from where Cardenas hails, other Aymaras were steadfast in their support of the president. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Shannon Doscher Jul 13, 2008
Favorite book: "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo. Favorite movie: "The Quiet Man". (Appeal Democrat, CA)
How to write a movie Jun 30, 2008
If Victor Hugo had waited until he'd finished Notre-Dame de Paris, he would have ended up calling it I've Got a Hunch. 3. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Religion in the News Apr 11, 2008
Victor Hugo wrote "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" to draw attention to its sorry state. . (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Byron's picture-postcard castle gets a makeover Mar 20, 2008
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Alfonso Lamartine, Victor Hugo and Alexander Dumas have also celebrated the castle and its beauty. The idyllic setting also inspired the 19th-century painters of the "Small Swiss Masters" school, whose small format landscape engravings were produced in series like modern postcards. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Grand Vefour restaurant in Paris loses third Michelin star Mar 4, 2008
The Web site proudly lists past guests, including Napoleon and his wife Josephine, as well as writers Victor Hugo, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Colette and Andre Malraux. The Michelin guide for France, to be published in French and English on Thursday, puts special emphasis on young chefs, with 510 listings for restaurants where you can eat for a reasonable price: 28 or less (US$42. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
'HSM2' will have Fox premiere Feb 22, 2008
Les Miserables : This new production will draw its design inspiration from the art of author Victor Hugo. Sept. 19-28. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
A love affair with the face Feb 18, 2008
The exhibition is made up of 80 works, portraits and self-portraits, stretching through time from 1852 (an exquisitely beautiful and exceedingly rare portrait - a salt paper print - of Victor Hugo by his son, Charles Hugo) to quite recent works (from the 1980s and 1990s) by fashion photographers such as Sarah Moon, Francesco Scavullo, Nigel Scott and photo-artists such as Sheila Metzner and Lori Newdick. What lies between those dates is nothing less than a compressed but telling history of... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
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His role often brings mention of Quasimodo, Victor Hugo's misshapen "Hunchback of Notre-Dame," who as the bell ringer was deafened by the volume ... Victor Hugo and Walt Disney aside, ringing the bells may never have involved swinging from a rope. (International Herald Tribune)
Critics' picks - visual arts Jan 20, 2008
The exhibit, sparked by a similarly titled book by Donald Friedman, includes work by Victor Hugo, Maurice Sendak, Annie Dillard, Tennessee Williams, and Gunter Grass. At Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, through Jan. 27. (Boston Globe)
Gallery exhibits a different chapter in writers' lives Jan 10, 2008
The show dishes up a wild array of them, from the accomplished painter Victor Hugo, who has a tiny, brooding, Turneresque landscape here, to contemporary graphic novelist Daniel Clowes. Scores of paintings, drawings, and prints hang salon style, clamoring for attention on the gallery's walls, in no clear order. (Boston Globe)
Mackintosh to stage Musical in China Sep 17, 2007
The show won over the censorship panel because the Victor Hugo novel is popular in China, and its message about revolution and struggle is deemed politically acceptable. Mackintosh is planning to meet some of China's budding stars, when he meets students at the prestigious Central Academy of Drama on Tuesday. (Times of India)
Paris For Food Lovers Sep 2, 2007
Many famous Parisians have lived and worked here, including Cardinal Richelieu and Victor Hugo. You can walk around the square, look at art and antique galleries, shop at the book and record shops or stop at a restaurant or caf to listen to musicians playing in the park. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Comment is free: Agns Poirier Jul 10, 2007
Our supreme leader has actually more in common with another Napoleon - le Petit, as Victor Hugo called him. This Napoleonic miniature was Napoleon the third, the great man's nephew, the dandy dictator and liberal emperor who ruled from 1852 to 1870. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
An inspector calls Jul 7, 2007
Victor Hugo declared "Guerre aux demolisseurs!" (War on the vandals) - and wrote in 1825: "There are two things about a historic building: its use and its beauty. Its use is a matter for its owner, but its beauty belongs to everybody. So an owner goes beyond his rights in knocking it down." This was a less politicised - though still militant - version of the revolution's declaration of public ownership. Hugo gave further, fictional impetus to his campaign with the novel Notre-Dame de Paris... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Paris gripped by case of author attacked by characters Jun 23, 2007
"Imagine Victor Hugo thrashed by the Thenardiers [from Les Miserables]," exclaimed the newspaper Le Figaro. When urbanites venture into France's countryside in the name of art, it has not always been smooth. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Slocumb Galleries presents student scholarships Apr 26, 2007
"I wasn't expecting it at all because my teachers told me there were over 200 participants submitting their work," said foundation award and juror's choice winner Alisa Walker, who won $100 for "Wire Form - Cockatoo." "I mean, how can you complain?"Walker's work included the poetry of Victor Hugo, her favorite poet, as well as a picture of her grandmother and pressed flowers. "It's something that's very personal," Walker said. (East Tennessean, TN)
Paris- The Marais Mar 24, 2007
The Picasso Museum, Old Jewish Quarter, Victor Hugos House ... Victor Hugo, the great poet and novelist who wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables , lived at No.6. (Suite101.com)
Winter delicacies Feb 25, 2007
Victor Hugos novel Les Misreablesis given the anime treatment ... LES Miserables is adapted from the famous novel by Victor Hugo which is set in the period before the French Revolution. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Heir of Victor Hugo fails to stop Les Mis II Jan 31, 2007
The great-great-grandson of Victor Hugo said yesterday he was bitterly disappointed after his six-year battle to ban a modern sequel to Les Mis;rables was ended by France's highest appeal court ... "I am not just fighting for myself, my family and for Victor Hugo but for the descendants of all writers, painters and composers who should be protected from people who want to use a famous name and work just for money." Mr Hugo, 59, a goldsmith, has been fighting to have banned Cosette ou le Temps... (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
