“Race” in Paris
Saw”Race” in Paris, the play by David Mamet that premiered on Broadway in 2009. Pierre Laville adapted the text in French and directed the play in which Yvan Attal plays the main character.”three attorneys, two black and one white, offered a chance to defend a white man charged with a crime against a black woman.” The play is terrific, right to the point… Are we ever clear about racism, feeling either guilty on one side, victimized on the other? The plot seems very American but in the wake of the DSK affair, it rings a bell even in France. Yvan Attal is great! Not to be missed
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False Rumor
This is the great thing about celebrities and this why media love them so much. There is always news. On French radio, Vanessa Paradis is reassuring us. She still loves her Johnny!
http://fr.news.yahoo.com/vanessa-paradis-rumeur-fausse-085700690.html
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Hollywood Drama
What is bothering me this morning? Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis are officially separated. I know it sounds really dumb as four Frenchmen have been killed in Afghanistan and so many more on the planet at this precise minute. Yes, well, at least I am being true to a part of myself, my “midinette” soul, the French and personal version of “People” icon on yahoo for the masses. They were both beautiful and had been together for 14 years living in a quiet French village. All of this is already quite romantic. Moreover they personnified a certain vision of fashion I like, fashion as a way to transform yourself, to reinvent your day to day life. Brands might help, but it is not only about brands or designers, it is about imagination and creativity. The idea that the duo will not play the game any longer, just kills me…I looked up to them for fantasies and stories, pirated avdentures obvioulsy, but may more. Just see
The Roaring 20′s
La Dolce Vita
Vintage 70′s
The siren and the pirat
I will miss them!
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Aung San Suu Kyi, What A Lady!
The Lady,the latest feature film by Luc Besson (Subway, The Big Blue, Nikita) on Aung San Suu Kyi will be released very soon in America.
I was able to see the film in a preview in New York ( the film was released in France last october) and really liked the movie. Sentimental: yes; Biased: yes; superficial: sometimes, yes. But Michelle Yeoh is amazing and the filming (the film was shot in Thailand) is “Bessonesque”, overwhelming. Luc Besson and his wife, Virginie Silla-Besson, the producer, have put so much time and research in this epic. It really shows.
The timing is of course exhilarating with Burma opening up to the world, Hillary Clinton visiting The Lady, and all this suffering and pain coming to a radiant end.
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Next
What I am looking forward to in the weeks to come
- Reviews on David Hockney ‘David Hockney: A Bigger Picture’ at the London Royal Academy of Arts, and a ticket please!
- NY Fashion week from Feb 9-16 for next Fall 2012. Colors and pretty shoes, please!
- Jean-Philippe Delhomme at FIAF Gallery Dressed for Art opening on Tuesday, February 28. Can’t wait to see his brilliant caricatures. An original please!
- The March issue of Newsweek by Tina Brown, a special Madmen and Sixties issue. The magazine please!
- Jean Paul Gaultier at the gala of the Lycee français, March 17. An autograph please!
Anything else important I forgot?…. non bonuses, bitter cold, winter forever, no more AAA for France, a failing euros, a mormon candidate… cannot think of anything else really important
And you?
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Going Back in Time (suite)
The original song just for fun and for the beauty of Catherine Deneuve
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