Word: alain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alain Meilland, 27, a fifth-generation rose-grower who now heads the business, has a personal income of close to $200,000 a year. At least 10% of the millions of rose plants sold in the world every year, he says, are Meilland's. Since the success of Peace, professional rose-growers around the world buy his breeding stock, propagate it by grafting, and pay him royalties of 100 to 500 on each bush they sell. "We are a research laboratory whose sole purpose is to create beautiful roses," says Alain, as he points proudly to the family...
...climates. In the end, perhaps one plant out of the original 100,000 will make the grade. The new rose will be notable for its color, the firmness of its silken petals or its longevity. His Baccara was the first rose to last for a week after cutting, claims Alain Meilland, but in some recent tests his latest creation, Lovita, stayed in fresh bloom for three weeks...
...performances of two superb French character actors, one a 73-year-old man (Michel Simon), the other a nine-year-old boy (Alain Cohen), make a genuine triumph of this cheerful, warm comedy about-of all things-anti-Semitism...
...Writer-Director Claude Berri has made a funny and charming film about, of all things, antiSemitism; he owes his success largely to two outstanding character actors, Michel Simon, 73, and Alain Cohen...
...Writer-Director Claude Berri has made a funny and charming film about, of all things, antiSemitism; he owes his success largely to two outstanding character actors, Michel Simon, 73, and Alain Cohen...