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Door prize: will the real Joan please identify herself

There is the strange and mysterious episode of the “false Joan of Arc” – or “false Joans of Arc,” for we cannot be quite sure now whether there were one or several pretenders…. Men, we may conjecture, did not quite … 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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