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Beauty and the Beast. A remarkable and poetic fantasy created in 1946 by the versatile French writer, Jean Cocteau, an occasional, but master, film-maker. This luxurious fairy tale dream dances and mimes to George Auric's score and has sets and make-up by the finest artists of French theater. A great film of striking beauty...
Such gnomic utterances, and the auric mysteries of the international monetary system, suddenly make the money game more fun to read about than play. Perhaps it is just as well...
...with hundreds of the visitors' flags, authorized an unprecedented 101-gun salute and ordered up a 70-car motorcade and a 50-man motorcycle escort. He called for a gala performance by the Paris Opéra ballet company, even summoned Opéra Director Georges Auric to ask him to "do it right for us, because they always do it so well themselves...
...interested in women," he chuckles). He shared an apartment with a count, tooled around the boulevards in "a little carriage," and "was thin as a stick because I never went to bed until the morning." On Saturday nights he toured the cafes with a bunch of the boys?Milhaud, Auric, Poulenc?and helped popularize their music, as well as that of his friends Debussy, Saint-Saens, Ravel and Heitor Villa-Lobos (whom he had discovered playing the cello in the pit of a Rio de Janeiro movie theater...
...sits that gadget-gaga gumshoe, Tames Bond (Sean Connery). "Ta-ta," he chortles as he charges full throttle into his latest caper. Poor James. Little does he know that he is about to encounter the grand master of all master criminals, "the most evil genius he has ever faced": Auric Goldfinger...