Word: albine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Copyright by Agence Sygma and Editions Albin Michel, Paris...
Parker recreates old movie clichés with shameless abandon: a car chase is routed through a barn, from which the autos emerge covered with straw and squawking hens. Fat Sam's speakeasy has a janitor (played by a winning, wistful Albin Jenkins) who mops floors and dreams of being a tap dancer. Parker reproduces, in the character of Blousey. the goody-goody bitchiness that made the "nice girls" of gangster flicks such eminent candidates for strangulation. The hoofing is exuberant and surprisingly adept, even if Paul Williams' musical score is a little slick. The whole movie...
Special work visas had to be arranged for the American kids. When the shooting schedule overlapped the school term, the production was required to hire six teachers to hold classes. These sessions taught Harlem's Albin Jenkins, nine at the time, to read and write...
...obtained 136 documents implicating 48 public officials. He leaked 15 of the papers which involved ten well-known Gaullist politicians, including Minister of Agriculture Jacques Chirac and the editor of the Gaullist party daily La Nation. One letter from former Gaullist Party Secretary-General Rene Tomasini asked "mon cher Albin" Chalandon, then Minister of Development and Housing, to give a private firm a fat contract for highway construction. Another disclosed that a Gaullist Deputy had forged a building permit for a supermarket by inserting it between the clipped-off letterhead and signature of Chalandon. Yet another letter, on party stationery...
...wake of this pressure, Gaullist Minister of Public Works and Housing Albin Chalandon last month ordered that the beaches be opened up. Arguing that the state has been the legal proprietor of most of France's seashore since the 17th century, Chalandon decreed that all "private beach" signs and fences be removed and roads be built through estates that have sealed off beaches. He also declared that the plagistes (beach concessionaires) could not charge for access...