lifestyle TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2014 MUSIC & MOVIES Charles Aznavour dazzles London at 90 In this April 14, 2007, file photo, Florence Henderson, from left, Susan Olsen, Maureen McCormick, Lloyd Schwartz and Ann B Davis of the television show ‘The Brady Bunch’ accept Charles Aznavour the Pop Culture Award during the 5th Annual TV Land egendary French-Armenian singer and pained lament. Awards in Santa Charles Aznavour, who celebrated Aznavour recently said he still “writes Monica, Calif. —AP Lhis 90th birthday on stage in Berlin every day, often a song a day”, and last month, defied the years to charm revealed the secrets of his success. “I try 5,500 spectators at London’s prestigious to be free with respect to music, and to Royal Albert Hall on Sunday. Taking the find a good melody that is easy to limelight to a standing ovation, the remember,” he explained. The audience- ‘Brady Bunch’ actress activist-singer promised the audience: made up of many French and Armenians- “I’ll sing half in English, half in heard many of Aznavour’s best-known French...tonight is about Entente cor- songs, including “Mes Emmerdes”, “She” diale”. Surrounded by seven musicians and “Take Me Along”, but it was his gyp- and two singers, the giant of French song sy-inspired “Les deux guitares” and “La Ann B Davis dies in Texas began his set with “Les emigrants”, in trib- Boheme” that ignited the grand old ven- ute to the world’s migrants. ue. Bouquets of flowers rained down on mmy-winning actress Ann B Davis, who “Gilligan’s Island,” it has lived on in reruns and Good ones were taken Looking relaxed in a dark suit, blue the stage as the crowd stood for a became the country’s favorite and most sequels. As “The Brady Bunch” theme song Older TV viewers remember Davis for another shirt with Mao collar and red braces, minute-long ovation, but their pleas for Efamous housekeeper as the devoted Alice reminded viewers each week, the Bradys com- non-glamorous role, on “The Bob Cummings Aznavour made light his 90 years-an age an encore went unheeded. Nelson of “The Brady Bunch,” died Sunday at a bined two families into one. Florence Henderson Show,” also known as “Love That Bob.” She played when “one sees badly and hears badly”- So it was without “La Mama”, “Pour San Antonio hospital. She was 88. Bexar County, played a widow raising three daughters when Schultzy, the assistant to Cummings’ character, a but warned the audience he needed a faire une Jam” and “Les Comediens” that Texas, medical examiner’s investigator Sara she met her TV husband, Robert Reed, a widow- handsome, swinging bachelor photographer teleprompter in case of memory lapse. the concert ended after nearly two hours. Horne said Davis died Sunday morning at er with three boys. In her blue and white maid’s always chasing beautiful women. It brought Despite frequently resting on a high Aznavour will play Barcelona on June 26, University Hospital. Horne said no cause of uniform, Davis’ character, Alice Nelson, was con- Davis supporting actress Emmy Awards in 1958 chair, the entertainer’s well-honed show- Rome on July 1, Los Angeles on death was available and that an autopsy was stantly cleaning up messes large and small, and and 1959. manship commanded the stage, with the September 13, Geneva on October 10 planned yesterday. Bill Frey, a retired bishop and she was a mainstay of stability for the family. After the series ended in 1959, Davis audience reacting to every clenched fist and Antwerp on November 22. — AFP a longtime friend of Davis, said she suffered a fall “I think I’m lovable. That’s the gift God gave appeared in such movies as “A Man Called Peter,” Saturday at her San Antonio home and never me,” Davis told The Associated Press in a 1993 “Lover Come Back” and “All Hands on Deck.” recovered. Frey said Davis had lived with him interview. “I don’t do anything to be lovable. I During layoffs she played in summer stock. and his wife, Barbara, since 1976. have no control.” Between her two better-known shows, she More than a decade before scoring as the Davis’ face occupied the center square during played a gym teacher at an exclusive girls’ school Bradys’ loyal Alice, Davis was the razor-tongued the show’s opening credits. Her love interest was in 1965-66 in “The John Forsythe Show.” During secretary on another stalwart TV sitcom, “The Sam the Butcher, played by Allan Melvin. “I’m her stints in “The Bob Cummings Show” and “The Bob Cummings Show,” which brought her two shocked and saddened! I’ve lost a wonderful Brady Bunch,” she used the layoffs to appear in Hollywood hosts Emmys. Over the years, she also appeared on friend and colleague,” Henderson said in a state- summer theater with such shows as “Three on a Broadway and in occasional movies. Davis con- ment Sunday. Honeymoon.” She also toured with the USO to sidered her ordinary look an asset. “I know at “The Brady Bunch” had a successful run until entertain US troops in Korea and elsewhere. China’s Huading Film Awards least a couple hundred glamour gals who are 1974, but it didn’t die then. It returned as “The She was born Ann Bradford Davis in 1926, in starving in this town,” she told the Brady Bunch Hour” (1977), “The Brady Brides” Schenectady, New York, and grew up in Erie, Los Angeles Times in 1955, the year the (1981), “The Bradys” (1990). It even appeared as a Pennsylvania. She said she took to using her Cummings show began its four-year run. “I’d Saturday morning spinoff (1972-1974). “The middle initial because “just plain Ann Davis goes rather be myself and eating.” She said she told Brady Bunch Movie,” with Shelley Long and Gary by pretty fast.” Davis never married, saying she NBC photographers not to retouch their pictures Cole as the parents, was a surprise box-office hit never found a man who was more interesting of her, but they ignored her request and “gave in 1995. It had another actress as Alice, but Davis than her career. “By the time I started to get me eyebrows.” Producer Sherwood Schwartz’s appeared in a bit part as a trucker. It was fol- interested (in finding someone),” she told the “The Brady Bunch” debuted in 1969 and aired for lowed the next year - without Davis - by a less Chicago Sun-Times, “all the good ones were tak- five years. But like Schwartz’s other hit, successful “A Very Brady Sequel.” en.” Elber reported from Los Angeles. — AP Chris Brown released from jail inger Chris Brown was released early yester- day from a Los Angeles County jail, authori- Sties said. Los Angeles Sheriff’s deputy Tony Moore told The Associated Press that Brown was released at 12:01 am yesterday, but he didn’t have any more details. Brown had been in custody since mid-March, when he was arrested after Actress Halle Berry being expelled from a court-ordered rehab sen- accepts the Global tence for violating its rules. Movie Icon Award And a judge last month ordered the R&B onstage at the 2014 singer to remain in jail after he admitted he vio- Huading Film Awards at lated his probation by getting into an altercation The Montalban Theatre outside a hotel in Washington, DC, last year. In his on June 1, 2014 in Los May 9 decision, Superior Court Judge James R. Angeles, California. Brandlin sentenced the singer to serve an addi- Bryan Cranston poses with his award for ‘Outstanding Actor in a Play’ at the Drama Desk tional 131 days in jail, but he had been expected Awards on Sunday in New York. (Left) Hosts Olivia Xu to get out much sooner. and Lucy Liu arrive at Brandlin had sentenced Brown to serve a year China’s first Film in county jail but gave him credit for nearly eight ‘All the Way,’ ‘Gentleman’s Awards, Huading Film months. The credits include time that the singer Awards. has spent in rehab and jail, as well as credits for good behavior while behind bars. Officials said at Guide’ win Drama Desk the time that Brown’s time in jail could be cut hina’s Huading Film Award cere- as he accepted his award. Orlando mony was held for the first time in Bloom won the Best Global Movie Star Cthe United States on Sunday, with award thanks to his appearance in hits he Drama Desk Awards have been Hollywood celebrities like Halle Berry like “The Hobbit: The Desolation of handed out to Robert Schenkkan’s and Orlando Bloom receiving honors. Smaug,” and “The Lord of the Rings” and T“All the Way” for outstanding play While the Chinese awards are little “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogies. and to “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & known in the United States, western film “Thanks to the fans that took time to Murder” for outstanding musical. “Twelfth celebrities understand the importance of see my movies,” he said, as he held up his Night’ won for outstanding play revival the burgeoning Chinese market and award. “Hurt Locker” Oscar-winner on Sunday and “Hedwig and the Angry many were present at the event. Jeremy Renner-who was not at the Inch” won for most outstanding musical. The bilingual show, hosted by event-won the Best Global Supporting Bryan Cranston won best actor in a Chinese TV personality Olivia Xu and Actor award for his role in 2013’s play, Audra McDonald won best actress in Chinese-American actress Lucy Liu, was “American Hustle,” while Briton Charlie a play, Jessie Mueller won best actress in held in the city’s Ricardo Montalban the- Hunnam won the award for Best Global a musical, and Neil Patrick Harris from ater and broadcast to millions of viewers Emerging Actor for his role as Jackson “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” and across the Chinese-speaking world.