BEAUJOLAIS, France (CNN) -- Wine lovers around the world can breathe a sigh of relief. Despite fears of a serious shortage this year, Le Beaujolais Nouveau is about to arrive after all.

The most famous celebration in the wine industry's calendar traditionally takes place on the third Thursday in November when, just after midnight, corks are popped to allow connoisseurs their first official taste of the new French vintage.

何年か前にちょうどヌーボー解禁日にパリから東京へ戻るということがありました。
ドゴール空港で売り出されているヌーボーを飲み、もちろん東京へも買ってくるという幸運に出会ったのです。

ヌーボーは別に普通のワインですし、１１月第３週というのも単なるイベントのようなものですがなんとなく幸せな気持ちでした。
そこで思い出したのが今年のヌーボーはどうかなということです。気の早いヌーボーファンにとっては去年の不作というニュースが頭に残っているからです。

"There was never a shortage of grapes -- just a shortage of grape pickers, " said Armelle Touillaud, from the Union Interprofessionelle des Vins du Beaujolais, which represents the region's growers.
"After the publicity in the summer people came forward, the grapes were harvested and the problem was solved."

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But there is no doubt that Nouveau is important to the vintners of the Beaujolais region, around the city of Lyon in eastern France. It accounts for a third of all wine produced there.

ビジネスとしては他の業界と同じような傾向をみせて、最近はこうなってきています

Around 60 million bottles of will be released on Thursday with approximately half of it being exported.
Germany is the most important foreign market, followed, in order, by Switzerland, the U.S., Japan and Britain.

Always on the lookout for new buyers, the wine producers are this year launching Beaujolais Nouveau in South Korea, where the recent economic upturn has led to an increase in wine consumption.
There are plans to expand further into the Far East.

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And for those not able to make it to France, restaurants and wine shops as far apart as Seoul, Moscow, Berlin, New York, Tokyo and London will be announcing "Le Beaujolais Nouveau Est Arrive" come Thursday.

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自分がプレーしているのでついついなんとなく見過ごしてしまうテニス関連、今回はウィンブルドンがはじまって初戦からいろいろなニュースがあります

Because of her turbulent love life, rifts with mom and a 2 1/2-year Grand Slam slump, Martina Hingis carried a lot of emotional baggage into Wimbledon.

No wonder her back hurt.
The top-ranked Hingis blamed previously undisclosed tendinitis in her lower back for Monday's listless 6-4, 6-2 loss to Virginia Ruano Pascual. But the real explanation may be more complicated.

Hingis, 20, didn't repeat her recent admission that because of men, she's no longer focused on tennis. She has dated several players, including Swedish standout Magnus Norman last year, and recently was romantically linked to attorney Christopher Calkin, the prosecutor in the Miami trial of a man convicted of stalking Hingis.

She said Calkin wasn't at Monday's match but has declined to discuss their relationship.

Also unclear is the status of Hingis' sometimes strained relationship with her mother and coach, Melanie Molitor. Twice Hingis tried touring without a coach, most recently this spring, before rehiring mom for the job.
Molitor refused to talk with reporters Monday. Hingis quoted her mother as telling her: "You tried your best. Now it's over. You have to decide what you're doing next."

彼女自身もこういっています
Added Hingis: "Sometimes you just need some time to recover your body and soul. Now I will have time to do it."

Hingis' loss aside, the biggest surprise on the opening day was the weather -- sunny and warm, with temperatures in the low 80s. Britons are unaccustomed to such conditions, especially at Wimbledon, and 50 fans and two ballgirls fainted because of the heat.

The capacity crowd on Court 1 groaned in disbelief as Hingis' errors mounted. She put only one service return in play in the final game, and Ruano Pascual leaped with joy when she clinched the biggest victory of her 10-year career.
"Unbelievable," she said. "I'm very happy. It's a dream for me, no?"

"There was always one player who was better than me at the end," Hingis said.
Or, in this case, at the start.

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このころからわたし個人としては妹のジャネットのほうに魅力を感じていました。
人間的にも成長して以前の彼女に比べるとマイルドな雰囲気の新曲「All for You」でVancouverを皮切りに４５都市へのツアーを開始しました。
"Larry King Live"に出演して心境を語っています。

Jackson talked to King before kicking off a 45-city, 58-show North American tour Thursday in Vancouver, British Columbia, to promote her chart-topping album, "All for You."

"I think the most important thing is that we are there and we know that we love each other and we are there for each other. That is what families are about," she said.
She said she has grown accustomed to tabloid stories about her over the years, but still bristles when they go after brother Michael and others in the Jackson clan.
"It doesn't bother me when I see things about myself. It bothers me when I see things about my family members -- my brothers, my sisters, my parents. That is what hurts me," she said.

But there were other influences, too, she said, including Carly Simon, Joni Mitchell and some heavy-metal types.
"I still am a very big Aerosmith fan, and Zeppelin, I listened to, growing up," she said.

Jackson said she's mystified by Eminem and wants to meet the controversial rap star some day so she can better understand him.
"I think he's very talented. I think he's very clever, but there are certain things that I don't understand," she said of the popular performer, whom critics have blasted for lyrics many say are homophobic and misogynist.

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"Diana was unique because she had various gifts, and they all came together in one person," Spencer said. "She was phenomenal with people, and when they saw her, they thought she was great. She was exactly who she was. She wasn't going to be crushed by the royal system; she was always going to be true to herself."

Diana had two older sisters, Sarah and Jane, and one younger brother, Charles. The Spencers lived a life of luxury, spending their early years at Park House, a 10-room mansion on the queen's country estate in Sandringham, Norfolk. The boy living next door would be her future husband.

"Diana knew Charles as a child," said Diana biographer Lady Colin Campbell, but "there was a big age gap."
Charles was more than 12 years her senior, so Diana played with royal children nearer her own age, such as Charles' younger brothers, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward.

At 18, she decided to move to London and pursue her dream of helping children. She found work as a nanny and then as a kindergarten teacher.
In the summer of 1980, Diana received a phone call that would change her life. Prince Charles asked for a date. Soon Diana had a new boyfriend and an intimate relationship with the press.

"Can you imagine coming out of a door and seeing 16 flashes in your face and not having seen this before? This woman couldn't go shopping," said Marlene Eilers, a royal genealogist. "She couldn't conduct a public relationship privately; no matter what she did, the press wanted to be there."

Less than a year after the royal wedding, Diana gave birth to Prince William Arthur Philip Louis on June 21, 1982. Two years later, Prince Harry Henry Charles Albert David was born September 15.

Eventually, Diana learned that Charles was devoted to another woman, Camilla Parker-Bowles, someone the prince had been close with for years.
Struggling with an eating disorder and depression, Diana watched her marriage fall apart.

"The image of her holding hands with HIV/AIDS. ... It shattered the stigma, prejudice and fear that surrounded HIV/AIDS in the early days," said Andrew Parkis, chief executive of the Diana Princess of Wales Memorial Fund.

Romantically, Diana was linked to Dodi Fayed, the 42-year-old son of wealthy businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed.
Dubbed the princess and the playboy, they were pictured in Britain's tabloid newspapers.
In August 1997, eight weeks after her 36th birthday, Diana joined Fayed for a vacation in France. In the early morning hours of August 31, Diana and Fayed died in a Paris car crash as they sped to elude paparazzi, including photographers on motorcycles.

でありながらもダイアナを称える「記念館」には彼女にふさわしくこのような一面も
An exhibition honoring Diana's life recently opened at Althorp. Some of the dresses that she was photographed in are on display.

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ロンドンからの新しいスタイルで魅せるカルテットグループ "ボンド" がニューヨークで人気がでてきています。

Haylie: I knew Tania from when I was about 15. We were doing music in Australia together. We went to London to study, where Eos and Gay-Yee were also studying. That was the main meeting ground, about three, four years ago.

Eos: Gay-Yee had been working with Vanessa May where she met Mel Bush, who's now our manager. And he helped fund us, do ... demo tapes and everything and get a record deal, and it kind of went from there.
CNN: So when Mel said, or whomever said, "The four of you should get together and here's my idea for a group," what did you say?
Gay-Yee: It's funny because, we'd already been discussing this same idea anyway. I remember talking to you (points to Eos) about it and saying it, you know? So we had the idea too, and Mel also had the idea, and that's why we all got on so well.

Haylie: I think one of the things in life is you have to kind of stay young, keep fresh, and challenge yourself. And what we've got is something quite unique in that, you know, we're a classical setup string quartet but we're sort of fusing ... pop elements and international flavors together, which gives you completely different music. (So) we can do something different that we have an input in.

As far as what category it would go under (laughs), it's very difficult. ... Most (record shops) in Britain actually seem to stock it in the classical sections despite the fact that we were thrown off the classical chart there.

CNN: You're all talented, accomplished musicians in your own right ... but the thing that goes ahead of you is the way that you look. Do you make your image an important aspect of what you do?
Eos: That's not a conscious thing on our part. I suppose maybe the promotion team might think, "All right, hook on to something" and put that out. (But) it's nothing to do with us really. If the image was that important I'm sure we'd have a stylist (all laugh). But, we don't have a stylist and we buy our own clothes.

I'm sure it doesn't do us any harm and sometimes people will see four young girls and they think, "Well, I bet they can't play."

But now we play more on the bond, friendship and the kind of musical thing than the James Bond. It's easy to pronounce in lots of different countries ... so that's kind of fortunate.

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今回はヴィトンの歴史とその精神について、１８５９年からの技術やパリ郊外の博物館や工場についてです。

Despite the benefits of modern mechanization, it's the precision and care of skilled carpenters, locksmiths and leather artisans that prevail here, as they did when the shop was founded in 1859.

Some stow-away trunks, for example, were sized specifically to fit the tight quarters of an ocean liner, or a steam engine cabin. But more compact didn't mean cramped: Vuitton took great pains to keep his clients' finery looking, well, just fine.

By the time the automobile had become all the rage, Vuitton's son Georges had taken the reins of the company. He not only shared his father's penchant for travel, but he also inherited his creative genes, as evidenced by another piece that de la Perraudiere points out.

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Rowland: And we got a Rolling Stone (magazine) cover!

Rowland: People respect you a lot more because they feel like they can relate and they think it is really cool that you write your own lyrics.

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新作 'Rush Hour 2' での 'buddy' である Chris Tucker のことについても興味ある発言をしています。

Adolescent energy

Hong Kong の熱気を実際に感じるとさらにそのエネルギッシュさをいつも感じる。

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The 31-year-old singer suffered an "emotional and physical breakdown" which led to her admission to a New York hospital on July 25, her publicist said

After a formidable track record with Columbia Records, Carey recently signed an $8 million dollar, four-album deal with Virgin Records.

Carey's mother, a former opera singer, introduced her daughter to singing when she was 4.
"Basically, I started singing when I started talking," Carey said. "Music has just been my saving grace my whole life."

For now, though, according to her friends and family, rest and relaxation are the orders of the day for this songbird.

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