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DIED. Claude Jade, 58, French actress who shot to fame as the heroine, opposite leading man Jean-Pierre Léaud, of three of François Truffaut's best-loved films, Stolen Kisses, Bed & Board and Love on the Run; of eye cancer; in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. The bittersweet, semiautobiographical films follow the journey of a man through falling in love, marriage and divorce...
...when he made The 400 Blows--an instant astonishment that set the French New Wave in motion--François Truffaut had no idea of following his little hero, a 14-year-old played by Jean-Pierre Léaud, through 20 more years of seriocomic escapades. But the end of that film, a freeze-frame of Antoine on a beach, left Truffaut and his audiences asking, What next? The callow charisma of young Léaud also begged to be used again. What followed was a lovely short film (Antoine and Colette) and three features (Stolen Kisses, Bed and Board and Love...
...store every now and again," says president Jim Hagale. "Then a handful. Next year maybe we can do two handfuls." The city of Buffalo, for instance, offered $66 million in various incentives to get Bass Pro to crawl into the shell of a downtown arena called the Aud and build a gigantic store. A hotel and museum are also in the plans. The mission is nothing less than reviving that Rust Belt city on Lake Erie. It's an astonishingly tall order for an overgrown tackle shop to revive what had once been a manufacturing center. But at a time...
...Here and there Cannes hosted films of graphic sexuality: not just The Piano Teacher (with occasional glimpses of porno movies) but The Pornographer, Bertrand Bonello's study of a director (Jean-Pierre Léaud) who was once the king of hard-core; now he comes out of retirement, only to find that the rules have changed. The film includes some porno footage that, as aspiring actresses used to say, is absolutely essential to the plot. And it is, for it shows that the subtleties our veteran director insists on have no place in the wham-bam-merci-madame demimonde...
Call it the Aud Hep Story. Even with three hours at its disposal, this film ends halfway through the star's career and life, with the making of Breakfast at Tiffany's. No My Fair Lady or Charade; nothing of the work for UNICEF. Still, what's onscreen fascinates because of the life itself and, at bottom, because of the dead-on impersonation by Jennifer Love Hewitt. Hepburn's accent; her posture; her chin-down, eyebrows-up way with a line--Hewitt has it all, and charm to boot. Delicious...