【美国人物志】美国人眼里的五位值得纪念的成功人士 (8/11)
克里斯托弗·里夫(Christopher Reeve),1952年9月25日出生,是一名美国演员,毕业于康乃尔大学,代表作品有《超人》系列、《黑狐传奇》等。朱莉娅·查尔德(Julia Child,1912年-2004年)是美国著名厨师,作家及电视节目主持人。她通过与人合著的烹饪书《掌握烹饪法国菜的艺术》及她的电视节目(其中最有名的为1963年首播的《法国厨师》)把法式烹饪介绍给美国大众。
马蒂·斯特潘内克((Mattie Stepanek )是著名的英雄小诗人、小维和者。身患肌肉萎缩症的他热爱和平,曾写信给布什总统,反对发动伊拉克战争;他多次出现在美国电视节目中,以自己的故事激励更多生命,感动了无数人。
雅诗·兰黛(Estee Lauder),顶级化妆品牌雅诗·兰黛创始人。她为她一生的爱人创造了一款香水,成就了香水界的一段佳话,她统治的化妆品王国至今依然被她的名字牢牢控制着。
罗伯特·梅里尔 (Roberto Merill,1917-),美国男中音歌唱家。曾从其母亲及玛尔戈利斯学习声乐,起初专唱轻音乐。1945年获大都会歌剧院广播演唱比赛奖。同年在该院首次扮演《茶花女》中的阿芒,后饰演过斗牛士、瓦伦丁、费加罗、弄臣、雅果、斯卡皮亚等角色,并演唱意、法歌曲,是该院受欢迎的主要演员。
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Josephine Esther Mentzer
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Hungary
"jars of hope"
http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201302/201302151239234056615.mp3A very successful business leader also died this year. Estee Lauder died April 24th at the age of 97. She had sold beauty products for more than 70 years. Her business, the Estee Lauder Companies, began on the streets of New York City.
She was born Josephine Esther Mentzer in Queens, New York. Her parents had come to America from Hungary. They did not have much money. But they did have a beautiful daughter.
Estee's uncle was a chemist. Together, they worked to develop skin care creams in the 1920s when Estee was still a teenager. She took her products to New York City and stopped women on the street. She let them try the creams for free, calling the products "jars of hope."
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