Word: bardots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...setting for most of leading lady Brigitte Bardot's amateur detectivisms is a rattle-trap French dance hall run by a blackmailer, who unknown to Miss Bardot has got the drop on her husband. The husband, played by Henri Vidal, has just stormed into the establishment to try to get himself off the hook, when the black-mailer-owner is murdered. The inevitable "innocent bystandars," none of whom, as Miss Bardot later discovers in her quest for information on the crime, are particularly innocent, witness Vidal's entrance, call the police, and set off the fireworks...
...week to do a novel portrait of Middle Linebacker Sam Huff of the New York Giants. A small trans mitter was sewed into Huff's padding during practice sessions and an exhibition game with the Chicago Bears, yielding such odd fragments as a defensive signal that goes "Brigitte Bardot double blitz" and a sharp warning from Huff to an elbow-throwing Bear: "You do that one more time, 88, and I'm going to sock...
Near the French Riviera town of Menton, a photographer approached a pretty, sex-hexed celebrity, and asked to take her picture. "Leave me in peace," was the reply. "I'm going to die anyway." A few hours later, Brigrrte Bardot made an apparently serious-and heavily headlined -attempt to die. In the garden of a friend's pink villa, a vineyard keeper found Brigitte unconscious beside a well. In the beam of his flashlight he saw Brigitte: "Her eyes were closed, her teeth slightly parted, and her arms were red with blood." It was her 26th birthday...
...buys Le Monde," muses Le Monde's Editorial Director Hubert Beuve-Méry. "We have learned to increase the print automatically during periods of worry and uncertainty, and our circulation jumps to 300,000 during times of crisis. It is events such as the accouchement of Brigitte Bardot or Queen Elizabeth which send our competitors' sales soaring. For us it is a political crisis...
Come Dance with Me (Francis Cosne; Kingsley) concerns a dentist (the late Henri Vidal) who, during an important poker game, experiences a moment of tooth. Brigitte Bardot appears, leading her sore-jawed father. It is an emergency. Vidal puts on his white jacket, jams his mirror into the sufferer's mouth, then stares entranced at the filling-Brigitte's, naturally. Before long the toothache is even worse, but he, the handsome dog, and she, the pretty thing, are in love...