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Her glasses are the same as they were many years ago )

Well, I am not a fan of Nana but I like some of the old greek somngs she has sung.

In general, I am not negative towards her.
Especially when she is a personal friend of artists like Bob Dylan,Leonard Cohen and Manos Hadjidakis.

Demetris

PS) And the woman is a Unicef Goodwill Abassador. Only for this she deserves our respect.

Dem I wasn't commenting on her politics nor her personality just her music. I don't like her music. I only remember her from years ago and I never liked her music.

I really know nothing about her apart from that and the fact that she was an Unicef Goodwill Ambassador does not by necessity earn respect Geri Halliwell of the Spice Girls was also a Goodwill Ambassador in her case I think it was more a PR project.

Her friends I like

Perhaps she has a high profile in Greece but I only know her as the lady with the big black glasses whose music I didn't like. I am not being negative nor positive I don't know that much about her

True, Paula. I acquired a cat years ago. His owner had given him the name Lucifer. His behaviour seemed remarkably similar. I decided renaming was in his and my best interest, so I scoured the Bible until I found a name that seemed both appropriate conceptually and pleasant in sound, as well as fitting for him. I settled on Joshua. His behaviour began to change virtually immediately for the better. I had already ceased his previous-owner's tactic of throwing him against a wall, so I'm certain the name change was most relevant. There is much in a name. The personality and name often tend to mirror each other.

Nana is very popular in Germany. Her nick is "the glasses". She's done different stuff from easy-listening-close-to-physically-pain-songs (7 white roses) to Cohen and Cave covers. She's a very sympathetic woman and a perfect embassador for the god's own country.

Elizabeth, the previous owner of one of our cats had called her Dopey. This seemed entirely inappropriate to us, so we renamed her Lady, as she is small and delicate but not at all dwarf-like. I have to be honest and say that the new name does not seem to have done a lot for her intelligence, but I'm convinced that she has far more self-respect now. (This could also be because we do not have a two-year-old child intent on drowning her in the garden pond, unlike her previous home.) Just in case she was at all attached to the mining element of her first name, we called her daughter Diamond

Ok...I now have Clockwork Orange added to Romper Stomper in my list of movies to check out. I am not so crazy about Kubrick's movies but we'll see....
Anybody see Dylan's new movie Masked & Anonymous ? I hear it is absolutely awful !!

You did perfectly well with your renames, Linmag . When it comes to self-esteem, it is an essential commodity for felines, as you well know. That was very thoughtful of you. Dopey is just unbearable. But if mining a Lady must go, coming up with a Diamond is much preferred to coal. Does daughter sparkle?

Kush ~ When you watch Clockwork Orange, keep in mind how long ago it was made, and the "futuristic" elements, along with the psychological aspects within the film. I also really liked the complexity of the film as a whole. Each time I'd watch it, there'd be entire segments that I'd "forgotten." A particular, classical piece of Beethoven's is forever linked for me. You'll know it when you see/hear it.

Dylan has a movie? Is he in it, or did he produce it?

Nana sounds very interesting. If the sound on my computer worked, I'd check her out. Her name sounds familiar, but I have no idea why. Was any of her music ever used in films that may have shown over here. Or was a particular song ever popular here in any way? I went to the link you provided, Kush. I could only conclude she and Paula must be sisters, their photos from earlier times looking so similar, a tiny red x in a white box. However, I did glance through the interview [no time to read it all] and some of her commentary fits well with why she and Leonard, and she and Dylan, have become friends. Likewise, with why she would be a Goodwill Ambassador.

Dylan is the main character in the movie s'posedly written by him and Larry Charles (part -writer of Seinfeld) but attributed to fictional writers who do not exist. The movie is centered around a faded rock star sprung from jail, set in a futuristic USA gone banana republic. I have read only one decent review of it (Salon.com) with almost all critics (including Ebert & Roeper) suggesting Dylan should stick to what he knows best.
I've heard I think one album of Mouskouri 10-15 yrs ago and generally liked it. She had a pretty unique voice. Her style is perhaps close to Dolly Parton's.

Kush wasn't Dylan in a film a long time ago he played a grubby looking man. It could have been a cowboy but it was a few years ago.

Dem what songs is Nana best known for I can't remember what song she sang years ago but I do remember her singing it.

At least in Greece Nana is more known for the songs of Hadjidakis/Gatsos.
(Both legendary figures in the local music scene.)

Demetris

Dylan was in "Pat Garret and Billy the Kid"

Dem I checked out Nana on a website she had a number 2 hit in the Uk in 1986 with a song called "Without You". They have a current picture of her she has turned into a beautiful woman she was really plain when she was younger.

Paula ~

What website [do you have the link?] did you go to for the updated [or any] photo of Nana? I don't have much tolerance for "surfing" the Net, going from one link to another. Perhaps it's because of the slow speed of my computer. I don't know, but I stop soon into the process.

~ Lizzytysh

Lizzie I think it was this web site

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/entertainment/1190412.stm

I know you are not a great surfer but an easy way to find a site of interest is

Go to the address line at the top of the screen, block what is there and delete it then type in say "Leonard Cohen" and all the web sites with Leonard Cohen in them will show. If you type things in quotes it should show just the sites with the two words together. You don't have to put www in or any other information just the points of interest. In fact if you type in your name your may find a doppleganger I have found a lot of relatives by using the net.

For a nice picture of Nana see:
http://home.wanadoo.nl/jolandaegas/singers.htm


Demetris

Thanks, Paula and Demetris. I'll be going to these links very shortly. Thanks, also, for that info, Paula. I've done the Google Search for things, but then getting a list of 15 pages with who-knows-how-many links on each page [with various types, styles, sizes, boldness, spacing, and colours of print] ends up being visually overwhelming, and more than I want to follow through on. I generally click on the first two or three and then stop. I'll try the quotation marks and see if that ends up less overwhelming for me. I'm always grateful when someone is posting here and provides the link that takes one directly to wherever it is they're talking about. Finding relatives. Interesting thought.