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"If I lose my heart, I hope it's the one that's insured." Lauren Bacall 

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"As Piaf's fame increased, her self-destructive tendencies moved into overdrive"

The nearest thing you have to it in America, I suppose, is country-western. It's very unusual for such a specific, and esoteric, song form to have become so popular.

"Where Piaf differed from other French singers—and this was something she implemented—was that the content of her songs became much more of a social comment. Her songs were about prostitutes who stood on street corners and said, 'If you don't make love to me, I'm not going to have enough money to buy my kid a meal.' Where up until them it had been I-love-Paris-in-the-springtime and it-is-beautiful-when-the-mist-is-on-the-Seine...she was saying, 'It's beautiful when the mist is on the Seine, but it's frigging cold standing here on the street corner waiting for a guy to come by and give me some money.' She shifted the social content of that sort of song to much more realism."

In a very real way, the glitter never truly obscured the gutter, and, as Piaf's fame increased, her self-destructive tendencies moved into overdrive. "She had a voracious appetite for life, which, on the other side of the coin, was exactly what led her into her own destruction. She wanted to experience everything to the full, and she had a perfect example of a buzz when she was on stage. She wanted to carry that into her personal life, so there were drugs and drink and men. She had to live six feet off the ground at all times, and that was what eventually destroyed her.

"She destroyed herself because she didn't have any middle-class education that would have taught her how to protect herself. Most of us in the theatre now have had the benefit of that kind of upbringing. We know about technique. We know about conserving our energies. Piaf didn't. She had to go out there and give everything she had. She only existed when she was on the stage. As she says in the play, 'What is there to come off for?'"

Harry Haun, who writes regularly about the arts in the Sunday Leisure section of the News, is author of The Movie Quote Book, a Lippincott & Crowell book published by Harper & Row.

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