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Exhibit A: Paris in the Month of August. A salesman (Charles Aznavour) becomes a summer bachelor when his wife and children take to the shore. Along comes the predictable blonde (Susan Hampshire) to scratch his seven-year itch. Her giddy giggle soon fills the sound track like a klaxon. The two go off on a picture-postcard tour of such out-of-the-way places as the Louvre, the Champs Elysées and the Tuileries, marking this second-rate souvenir "For export only." Aznavour's tragicomic twinkle shines through in such films as Shoot the Piano Player...
Truffaut solidified his reputation with two films that are still considered landmarks in modern cinema history. Shoot the Piano Player was both a sly, imitative tribute to the Warner Bros, shootem-ups of the '30s and the existential drama of a man (Charles Aznavour) who can no longer respond to life. Jules and Jim was a near-perfect evocation of Montparnassian fin de siecle life, informed with psychological observations of the '60s. A blend of saline tragedy and dulcet comedy, it reinforced the burgeoning reputation of Actress Jeanne Moreau...
Blue-Eyed Soul. Does this mean that white musicians by definition don't have soul? A very few Negroes will concede that such white singers as Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee have it, and Aretha also nominates Frenchman Charles Aznavour. A few more will accept such blues-oriented whites as the Righteous Brothers, Paul Butterfield, and England's Stevie Winwood?largely because their sound is almost indistinguishable from Negro performers'. But for the most part, Negroes leave it up to whites to defend the idea of "blue-eyed soul," whether by the criterion of talent, experience or temperament. Janis Joplin...
...find anyone in the music business who is more surprised by the record's success than the man who made it: lean, mustachioed French Orchestra Leader Paul Mauriat, 43. A veteran of ten years in Paris recording studios, Mauriat has provided suave backgrounds for such singers as Charles Aznavour and Mireille Mathieu, and has turned out hundreds of piquant pop orchestrations for his own instrumental albums. Three of his albums had been released in the U.SL during the past two years, selling moderately (around 25,000 copies per album) in the same market that supports such American counterparts...
Married. Charles Aznavour, 42, France's pint-sized disenchanter of love (C,est fini, You've Let Yourself Go); and UllaThorssell, 25, miniskirted Swedish model; he for the third time; at Las Vegas' Flamingo Hotel...