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...version of The Fall of the House of Usher) to Roger Corman (Tales of Terror) has done Poe, so who knows. It's Spirits of the Dead, a collection of three Poe short stories, directed by Fellini, Louis Malle and......Roger Vadim. Starring Jane Fonda and Brigitte Bardot. The original title for this was apparently Histories Extraordinaires, but the simple change to Extraordinary Stories, or even Strange Tales, must have been deemed unsuitable...
Adjani is singleminded: "My private life is my professional life." Early next year she starts filming a musical comedy with Yves Montand. Exults La Gifle Director Claude Pinoteau, "After Morgan, Bardot and Moreau, we have waited 15 years for a new young leading lady. Now we have...
...second time in two decades that a French computer firm has been taken over by an American one. In 1963 General Electricaise." made a bid to acquire 20% of the ailing Compagnie des Machines Bull, whose shares were once so alluring that it was sometimes called the "Brigitte Bardot of French industry." De Gaulle rejected the offer and instructed then Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing to find a "solution française." But the assignment proved impossible, and GE finally gained the equivalent of a 50% stake for $43 million...
...meat, peanuts were piled high on the pavement on Le Loi, the busiest boulevard in Saigon, and exotic aromas bubbled up from the hot food stalls in front of Saigon's cathedral. Young women crowded the lobby of the Mini Rex Theater every matinee to see Brigitte Bardot in Boulevard du Rhum. Roving photographers armed with Polaroid cameras still tried to hustle a few piasters out of foreign correspondents they mistook for tourists. The piaster rate, perhaps the best war barometer in town, shot up from 2,000 to 3,900 for one U.S. dollar in four days...
...amours with Actresses Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve and Jane Fonda are behind him now, and French Film Director Roger Vadim has been pursuing other muses. "To be a director is to be a painter in a way," he says by way of explaining his new interest. "You train your sense of aesthetics, of color, objects, volume and light. Most of the time when I was making my last movie, I was acting like a painter." Vadim, 47, who now shares his Paris menage with Lover Catherine Schneider and their one-year-old son, works primarily at night, putting his amateur...