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Charles Aznavour , born Shahnour Varinag Aznavourian ( on 22 May 1924 ) is a French , later naturalised Armenian , singer , songwriter , actor , public activist and diplomat . Aznavour is known for his unique tenor voice : clear and ringing in its upper reaches , with gravelly and profound low notes . He has written over 800 songs and recorded over 1 , 200 , sung in eight languages and sold more than 180 million records . The Woman Next Door is a 1981 French film directed by François Truffaut . It was the 39th highest - grossing film of the year , with a total of 1 , 087 , 600 admissions in ___MASK64___ . Hollywood (, informally Tinseltown ) is an ethnically diverse , densely populated , relatively low - income neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles , ___MASK96___ . It is notable as the home of the U . S . film industry , including several of its historic studios , and its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the industry and the people in it . The Wild Child ( released in the ___MASK87___ as The Wild Boy ) is a 1970 French film by director François Truffaut . Featuring Jean - Pierre Cargol , François Truffaut , Françoise Seigner and Jean Dasté , it tells the story of a child who spends the first eleven or twelve years of his life with little or no human contact . It is based on the true events regarding the child Victor of Aveyron , reported by Jean Marc Gaspard Itard . The film sold nearly 1 . 5 million tickets in ___MASK64___ . Shoot the Piano Player ( French : Tirez sur le pianiste ; UK title : Shoot the Pianist ) is a 1960 French crime drama film directed by François Truffaut and starring Charles Aznavour as the titular pianist . It is based on the novel Down There by David Goodis . François Roland Truffaut ( 6 February 1932  21 October 1984 ) was a French film director , screenwriter , producer , actor , and film critic , as well as one of the founders of the French New Wave . In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century , he remains an icon of the French film industry , having worked on over 25 films . Truffaut ' s film " The 400 Blows " came to be a defining film of the French New Wave movement . He also directed such classics as " Shoot the Piano Player " ( 1960 ), " Jules et Jim " ( 1961 ), " The Wild Child " ( 1970 ), " Two English Girls " ( 1971 ), " Day for Night " ( 1973 ) and " The Woman Next Door " ( 1981 ). ___MASK7___ ( tr . " Hayastan "), officially the Republic of ___MASK7___ ( tr . " Hayastani Hanrapetut  yun "), is a sovereign state in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia . Located in Western Asia on the " Armenian Highlands ", it is bordered by ___MASK84___ to the west , Russia and ___MASK8___ to the north and Azerbaijan to the east , and ___MASK25___ and Azerbaijan ' s exclave of Nakhchivan to the south . David Loeb Goodis ( March 2 , 1917  January 7 , 1967 ) was an American writer of crime fiction , noted for his prolific output of short stories and novels epitomizing the noir fiction genre . A native of Philadelphia , Goodis alternately resided there and in New York City and Hollywood during his professional years . Yet , throughout his life he maintained a deep identification with the city of his birth , Philadelphia . Goodis cultivated the skid row neighborhoods of his home town , using what he observed to craft his hard - boiled sagas of lives gone wrong , realized in dark portrayals of a blighted urban landscape teeming with criminal life and human despair .