By Douglas Holtz-Eakin
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Katy Perry shook up Billboard's Women in Music 2012 luncheon in late November. In accepting their Woman of the Year award, Miss Perry announced, "I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women."
France's former first lady Carla Bruni says she disagrees with her conservative husband Nicolas Sarkozy and supports a plan to allow gay marriage and adoption.

France's former first lady Carla Bruni called feminism outdated in an interview with the French edition of Vogue for its December issue.
France's former first lady Carla Bruni says she disagrees with her conservative husband Nicolas Sarkozy and supports a plan to allow gay marriage and adoption.
Former French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy says she thinks her unmarried successor, Valerie Trierweiler, should get hitched to be taken more seriously.
Only in France. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the superstar model-turned-songstress with a freewheeling lifestyle, now hands the job of first lady to a twice-divorced journalist who's the first presidential partner to enter the Elysee Palace without a ring on her finger.

French voters on Sunday elected Socialist Francois Hollande as president, rejecting Nicolas Sarkozy's push for austerity and anti-immigration rhetoric in his re-election bid.
Would a red-soled stiletto by any other name than Christian Louboutin look as sweet?

Bruce Springsteen closed out the first weekend of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival with a 2 1/2-hour show that combined crowd-pleasers such as "Born to Run" with the cover tune of his new CD, "Wrecking Ball."

Nothing focuses a politician's mind like staring at oblivion and reluctantly contemplating himself at the center of that dark and dreary place. Though it may be too late to save himself, Nicolas Sarkozy is scared, contrite and humble, a remarkable precedent for a French president.
Residents are blasting a plan to erect a statue with a face resembling that of France's Italian-born first lady in an effort to honor this small town's immigrants from Italy.

First lady Michelle Obama is a behind-the-scenes force in the White House whose opinions on policy and politics drew her into conflict with presidential advisers and who bristled at some of the demands and constraints of life as the president's wife, according to a detailed account of the first couple's relationship.
French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has made her first public appearance since giving birth to a little girl in October.

Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry collection fetched a record-setting $115 million — including more than $11.8 million for a pearl necklace and more than $8.8 million for a diamond ring given to her by Richard Burton — at an auction of gems and other memorabilia amassed by the late actress.

President Obama came, he saw, he insulted. "Obama insults Sarkozy," blared the headline on one French website, taking umbrage at Mr. Obama's wayward remark at the G-20 summit here about the physical appearance of French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, wife of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, said she and her husband disagree on the issue of gay marriage and adoption.
PARIS (AP) - Former French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy says she thinks her unmarried successor, Valerie Trierweiler, should get hitched to be taken more seriously.