(Basically no) News Update: 2/24

[davidhr]

Another week of maternity leave for Lara, with no sighting or information. A number of people on the official site (and also on the other related sites) have written in asking for any information, but the requests so far have fallen on deaf ears (quelle surprise). Actually Lara's official site is in such a state of neglect that the "Home" page features Lara's message of last September; one has to go to the separate "Road Book" entry to find more recent messages.

We do know that this was the month that Matt Herskowitz is supposed to go to Belgium to start work with Lara on the next album, but nothing has been said about whether that has taken place. Another thing we know: Lara's child is now three months old.

A few pictures of Lara from past years have been noted on Hezia's site. angeyelliel pointed out the following link for some pictures of Lara with Maurane at the francofolies from 2002 (originally from the "Ultimate" website); just click (or double click) on the little picture of them on the left, and it opens up a location for some more pictures.

membres.lycos.fr/larafabian1/news/02/news5.htm

The first page also has a few other pictures available.

Also on Hezia's site, clothilde provided several pictures taken during the recording of the "Chante avec Lara" DVD. Included is an interesting one with Gerard. It is at

forum.aceboard.net/38688-540-18669-61-Photos-Lara.htm

and go to page 62, about half way down the page.

It will be interesting to see if Lara does go to Montreal in March (which begins later this week) as suggested by Matt.

David

[smoothlara]

i'm not sure if anyone is an "official" member of the funclub but i just got a copy of Farfallina #9 last week. in it were a lot of old pictures of Lara from when she was first starting up to Carpe Diem. in her introduction, she mentioned that these were rarely or never seen photos, and they show her evolution through her career; kind of nostalgic. seeing those old photos do make me realize just how far she has come since then. she looks a lot prettier and more graceful now, of course. too bad the pictures don't go past 1998.

[bward]

Thanks David for the update. Too bad there wasn't more going on, but I guess life is busy for Lara as a new mother.

Hopefully, within the next few months, we hear or see something!

Enjoy the Oscars tonight everyone!

[lapayin]

In America it is common for new mothers to be on maturnity leave for three months. I believe in most other countries it's longer. So no surprise with Lara's absence.


Lib,

Funny you should mention the older pictures. I was watching some older Lara videos last night and was thinking exactly the same about how much Lara has changed, even down to her expressions. She smiles a lot more now than she did earlier. She was more passionate, expressive and excited then, than she is now. Ah youth. But I agree with you, the thirties have been very good to Lara.