Marcel Marceau, the great French mime who for seven decades mastered silence and brought new life to an ancient art form, has died. He was 84. Marceau died Saturday in Paris, French news media reported, citing his former assistant Emmanuel Vacca. The cause of death was not disclosed. On Sunday, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon praised Marceau as “the master,” saying he had the rare gift of “being able to communicate with each and every one beyond the barriers of... Read More
Category: Broward News
Former Floridian returns to beach hotel of his boyhood
MIAMI BEACH — The familiar buff-colored, turbaned statues still supported the portico. The familiar blue neon sign glowed on the roof, in the same flowing script: Casablanca. Home again. As a boy in the late 1950s, when Collins Avenue’s oceanfront hotels were the height of subtropical sophistication, this one was my hangout. Now I had returned. My family once lived in an apartment in Miami Beach, but we spent our free time at the Casablanca, a curved, modern-style, seven-story... Read More