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...Sorlut set out two years ago to corner the nymphlet market. Pierre recruited his pubescent charmers among girls aged 12 to 18, first by seducing them and then by arranging dates with wealthy clients with infantile tastes. Pierre's particular prey were the pouting little imitators of Brigitte Bardot, with puffball hairdos and ambitions to become starlets or models. "How could I live without my little cats?" Pierre would say as he collected the earnings of Janine, Colette and Monique. If a girl proved difficult, Pierre would speak musingly of vitriol and its effects on a pretty face. Flashing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Little Cats | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

...intended by their sponsor to imply that even infants go for Perrier's bottled mineral water, much of which gushes from a spring near the town of Charrier. Unfortunately, French for baby is bébé, pronounced "B.B.," who, as 45 million Frenchmen know, is Cineminx Brigitte Bardot. In turn, making the coincidence the more monstrous, B.B. is married to highstrung Cinemactor Jacques Charrier. Was Perrier, with gauche humor, hinting of discord in the Charrier family? Brigitte concluded just that, had her lawyers ask the Seine Tribunal to muzzle the ads because they cast doubt on her love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 21, 1960 | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

...since last summer, when a reporter spotted a suspicious equatorial rotundity in French Film Star Brigitte Bardot, have the French papers given her approaching term much less than millennium treatment. For a while, confronted with testy denials of her pregnancy, the papers played the story almost as placidly as they did President Eisenhower's tour and the trouble in Algeria. But by mid-December they could contain themselves no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Frenchmen at Work | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

After the big event, the resignation of Finance Minister Antoine Pinay (see FOREIGN NEWS) was bumped into second null to make room for frantic conflicting accounts of the Bardot issue: 'Blue eyes and black hair" (Le Figaro). 'blue eyes and brown hair" (Paris-Presse), 'brown hair and yellow eyes" (Brigitte's secretary). Afterward, as the spent corps converged on the Royal Passy Café near Brigitte's home, where Papa Charrier was serving champagne, two newsmen collapsed from exhaustion and someone poured beer over their heads. With cruel disregard for the photographers who had camped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Frenchmen at Work | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

...special detail of gendarmes held lensmen at bay before the Paris apartment of French Cinemorsel Brigitte (Babette Goes to War) Bardot. Two cradles had been delivered to Brigitte's home, giving rise to speculation that she might imminently give birth to twins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 4, 1960 | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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