The lean, craggy face peering with a squinty smile into the spotlight had rarely been seen by U.S. audiences, although a few first-nighters might remember it as belonging to the guttily amoral Corsican truck driver in the film Wages of Fear. At 37. Singer Yves Montand is France's highest paid entertainer, the hottest music-hall performer to hit the scene since the end of World War II. Last week, appearing in the open-necked brown shirt and slacks that are his trademark, Yves (pronounced Eve) Montand made his first U.S. appearance at Manhattan's Henry...
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