Laure Monique Pester (born 2 May 1982), known professionally as Lorie, is a French pop singer. She has sold over 8 million albums and singles worldwide as of December 2007. Her first studio album Près de toi was certified triple platinum in France and she followed it with five other certified albums.
Lorie is also an actress, who lent her voice for many French versions of international movies including Stuart Little 2. She stars in the TF1 TV film De feu et de glace, and guest-starred as a Parisian model on the American soap opera The Young and the Restless. She has also launched a clothing line, "Lorie", only found in the Z stores in France. Her contract with Z ended in early 2009.
Read more...The May 2, 1982 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 121 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
If you were born on this day, you are 43 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, May 2, 2025, 185 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, May 2, 2026, in 179 days. You have lived for 15,891 days, or about 381,403 hours, or about 22,884,238 minutes, or about 1,373,054,280 seconds.
Date: 02 May 1982
The Overseas Press Club last week announced awards for foreign reporting in 1981. The Hal Boyle Award for the best reporting by a daily newspaper or wire service went to David Ottaway of The Washington Post for coverage of the assassination of the Egyptian President, Anwar el-Sadat.
Date: 02 May 1982
By Eva Hoffman and Margot Slade
Eva Hoffman
The American Newspaper Publishers Association was warned last week to prepare for a day when the very notion of a news ''paper'' may be outdated by information transmitted to video screens. ''If you don't get into the business, someone else will,'' said Albert J. Gillen, senior vice president of Knight-Ridder Newspapers, who was one of several speakers to sound the theme at the assocation's meeting in San Francisco.
Date: 03 May 1982
AP
Attorneys for two law enforcement agents from New Jersey say they will try to force CBS to turn over tapes from a ''60 Minutes'' segment that featured the officers. At a hearing on Friday, Judge Robert Muir of Superior Court in Morristown will be asked to decide if the New Jersey shield law applies to film that is not used in a broadcast.
Date: 03 May 1982
Reuters
Journalists at Le Monde today elected Andre Laurens as the daily newspaper's new editor. Mr. Laurens, now deputy political editor, will succeed Jacques Fauvet in July.
Date: 02 May 1982
By Lawrence Van Gelder
Lawrence Gelder
WHEN the National Computer Conference convenes June 7 in Houston, Gerard G. Leeds's family of newspapers will grow to six. Mr. Leeds is the president of CMP Publications Inc., with headquarters in Manhasset - a business-newspaper publishing concern he started in April 1971 in his home in Great Neck. ''It was a real fight,'' he said of the beginnings of his company, ''with a few people saying, 'Hey, that's a great idea,' and a few people saying, 'Hey, you're crazy to compete with Fairchild,' and the traditional people totally ignoring us.'' But, like Fairchild Publications, with its stable of specialized trade papers, Mr. Leeds's CMP Publications has carved out a considerable niche for itself.
Date: 02 May 1982
By Anthony Depalma
Anthony Depalma
BUDGET cutbacks and contract differences may spell the end for New Jersey's only professional statewide television newscast - at least in its present form. ''New Jersey Nightly News'' has been co-produced by the New Jersey Network and Channel 13 for the last four years, but Channel 13 has halved the funds it is willing to contribute. Carl McCall, senior vice president at Channel 13, said that drastic cutbacks in Federal funds for public television had forced the station to reduce its support of the news program from $1.2 million this year to $600,000 next year. ''All of our local productions will be hurt,'' Mr. McCall said, ''but although New Jersey will get less next year, it will still be receiving the same percentage of our local production budget.'' That is about 60 percent, he said. Channel 13 plans to increase from $450,000 to $600,000 the funds for another state-oriented program, ''The New Jersey Show,'' an hourlong public affairs show whose host is Richard Leone, a former State Treasurer.
Date: 02 May 1982
By James Feron
James Feron
IT is difficult for Fred Friendly, who has achieved fame in television news, in the teaching of journalism and as an activist in First Amendment issues, not to dominate any gathering he attends. As his wife, Ruth, put it last Sunday at a meeting in the Sheraton Plaza Inn in New Rochelle, ''We all come under Fred's gravitational pull.'' The Friendlys were there to receive the John Peter Zenger First Amendment Award from the Westchester Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, but this time Mrs. Friendly, who teaches fifth grade at the Edgewood Elementary School in Scarsdale, stole the spotlight, at least for a while. Other speakers had told how she had brought the Bill of Rights alive to her students with ''The Zenger Connection,'' a musical tribute recounting how the 18th-century printer and editor was arrested for reporting a rigged election. Produced yearly in school, it was also presented last December at St. Paul's Church in Mount Vernon, now a national monument because it was the site of that election.
Date: 03 May 1982
By William E. Farrell, Special To the New York Times
William Farrell
The afterglow of the restoration of Sinai to Egypt last Sunday is fading. The crucial date of April 25, which marked the return of the desert by Israel, also marked the end of the honeymoon period President Hosni Mubarak has enjoyed since he came to power after the assassination of Anwar el-Sadat last Oct. 6. Mr. Mubarak is now faced with a long roster of issues - some foreign, but mostly domestic - that command his attention. Dealing with these issues, ranging from a population growth that is out of control to a major restructuring of an economy that is becoming more and more precarious, is expected to define more sharply Mr. Mubarak's ability as a leader as he charts a course through the maze of often confusing, and sometimes bumbling, bureaucracies he presides over. Still a Mystery After 6 Months Mr. Mubarak was Egypt's Vice President from 1975 until Mr. Sadat's death. He has been President for six months. His moves are reported daily in the Egyptian press and on national television. But many Egyptians keep saying that they still do not quite know who he is or how he intends to put into effect his calls for economic change and greater equity in the distrubtion of Egypt's resources among its 44 million citizens.
Date: 03 May 1982
By Iver Peterson, Special To the New York Times
Iver Peterson
Economic turmoil and the perils of being Republican in Democratic-leaning states appear to have played an important role in prompting most of the industrial Middle West's Governors to bow out of politics this fall. Of the six incumbents in the region whose terms expire this year, five, all of them Republicans, have announced that they will retire from politics for now. All were faced with varying degrees of economic problems at home and the prospect of running as Republicans in an area whose Democrats are blaming President Reagan's policies in Washington for fiscal problems at home. Each departing Governor offered reasons for leaving politics. One could not succeed himself in that office, others had served several long terms and one was in trouble with his own party. Each cited personal reasons that are impossible to plumb.
Date: 02 May 1982
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
To help American smokers stop smoking, the Dow Chemical Company proposed in December 1980 to fight nicotine with nicotine. The company said it had applied to the Federal Food and Drug Administration for permission to market a nicotine-based chewing gum called Nicorette.