{"id":83,"date":"2008-09-12T09:25:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T09:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/?p=83"},"modified":"2008-09-12T09:25:26","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T09:25:26","slug":"renee_is_the_new_rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2008\/09\/renee_is_the_new_rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9e is the new Rain?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The unnervingly lovely Ren\u00e9e Fleming<\/a> releases her newest album<\/a> next week, and combing through her press materials to promote it, I stumbled upon this:<\/p>\n

Master
\nChef Daniel Boulud has created the dessert “La Diva Ren\u00e9e” (1999) in
\nher honor, and she has inspired the “Ren\u00e9e Fleming Iris” (2004), which
\nhas been replicated in porcelain by Boehm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She also has a Coty (synonym for “fancy”) perfume coming out if\/when The Metropolitan Opera Gift Shop reopens this winter called  “La Voce<\/a>“. My Coty perfume, “Life’s a Spritz” (2008), will be coming out around the same time, and will be exclusive to The Metropolitan Opera marketing department offices. You’ll have to submit a proposal and go in for a meeting to design their banner ads or whatever to buy it. <\/p>\n

Anyway, the iris, etc. got me thinking: Stephen Colbert<\/a> prides himself on his many namesakes, but Ren\u00e9e Fleming, a mere opera star, is a surprisingly strong competitor:<\/p>\n

Ren\u00e9e:<\/b> <\/p>\n