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...that "cinema replaces our gaze with a world in harmony with our desires" (the same line is quoted in For Ever Mozart). A French playwright (Michel Piccoli) is hired for a rewrite job by an American producer (Jack Palance) who has eyes for the writer's sexy wife (Brigitte Bardot). With its polyglot cast and mixed-doubles leering, Contempt gets the Babel and Babylon of filmmaking down perfectly...
...Brigitte Bardot, no stranger to on-screen nudity, owes her family a lot. Literally. In her 1996 biography Initiales B.B., she lambastes ex-husband Jacques Charrier as a "gigolo" and says that while pregnant, she regarded son Nicolas as "a tumor." Last week a French court granted the maligned duo $43,000 but refused to order the pages excised...
ACQUITTED. BRIGITTE BARDOT, 62, 1950s sex kitten turned animal-rights crusader; of charges of inciting racism; in Paris. The accusation stemmed from a Bardot letter published last year in a French newspaper decrying Muslim sacrificial slaughter of sheep, likening it to pagan rituals...
Noted animal lover and even more noted man lover BRIGITTE BARDOT, 62, has written a breathless memoir. It might almost be a best seller if one copy were bought by each ex-amour named in it. Many of them, however, won't much like what they read. It's not just her dissatisfaction with men. Initiales B.B. has plenty of Bardot's far-right, anti-immigration politics too. But as she is being sued by a leading French antiracism organization for "provoking racial hatred" in recent interviews, maybe she should take the advice of one newspaper headline: B.B., SHUT...
...first rehearsal. Granted, bootleg recordings of his rare concert appearances have kept more than one Italian label busy, but his extreme reluctance to record has inevitably elicited comparisons with Sergiu Celibidache, well-known for his remark that listening to recordings is much like fornicating with a picture of Brigitte Bardot...