Tag Archives: Jean Paul Belmondo

freeze a caste system

…How to freeze a caste system while professing only the purest democratic principles… To almost anyone who respects the English language for its grace and beauty, its combination of precision and flexibility, the social philosophy of the Structural Linguists seemed … Continue reading

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basic melancholy

At the age of twenty-three Jean Seberg had been “discovered” in the heartland of America, precipitated into the starring roles of two monumental flops, dumped by her famous discoverer-Otto Preminger- and cast into cinematic outer darkness, only to be swept … Continue reading

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watering the weeds

The Stavisky scandal. One mans contradictory relationship with truth and death. Yes, the big crooks live on; greedy and cold they get to get swindled another day. Stavisky stood off attacks from the press with bribes, which he called “watering … Continue reading

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$$$ from pigale to palace: origins of the hustle

There is always a fascination with the role of the past and how quickly it fades into oblivion. The actors and contexts may change, but there is always an unseen hand, proffering the levers that mechanically set in motion the … Continue reading

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ROCK HIS GYPSY SOUL: THE STORMY “CORINTHIAN”

“There’s no one more punctual than a woman one doesn’t love” ( “Kean” by Jean Paul Sartre ) From its declining fortunes Drury Lane Theatre was to be rescued, briefly, by the arrival of Edmund Kean, the most fiery and … Continue reading

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