Word: bardots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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French Czar. By 1957, show-business people in France had begun, not very precisely, to call Levy "the czar of French cinema." He won the title, typically, on a gamble, bringing together an unknown starlet named Bardot and a neophyte director named Vadim. And God Created Woman cost less than $400,000, but Levy plastered the world with publicity and grossed ten times that much in the U.S. alone. He made a handful of other pictures, including four more with Bardot, but he had neither the money nor the skills of a long-run mogul...
Died. Raoul Levy, 44, penny-ante French film producer, who made a mint out of Brigitte Bardot in And God Created Woman, after which the law of averages straightened out; by his own hand (16-gauge shotgun); in Saint-Tropez, France (see SHOW BUSINESS...
Cultural Leftover. If anything could kill the look on campus, of course, it would be the news that adults are doing it too. West German Playboy Gunter Sachs, it was noted, married Brigitte Bardot in Las Vegas last summer with his socks off, and already there are signs of backlash. "Socklessness is a cultural leftover," fumes one Princetonian. Sock sales are even rising in some areas. Still, as the first snowstorms swirled across the Midwest last week the purists were standing fast. "If I could get a pair of lined desert boots," said one, thinking onward in Wisconsin, "maybe...
...sexy; they are, after all, the costume of the harem. Nor are precedents lacking: one of Joan of Arc's first requests to the Dauphin was permission to don man's armor. Sweden's Queen Christina gloried in pants, as did Novelist George Sand. Brigitte Bardot has been stuffing herself into blue jeans for a decade; and today slacks are the starlet's uniform...
...sold 4,500,000 copies around the world and launched her not only as an author but as a peripatetic and hyperbolic prototype of the restless, anarchic youth of Europe. Although her face is triangular and her figure suggests undernourishment, French magazines played her up as if she were Bardot. She played right back, danced all night at a Paris bar called New Jimmy's, raced off in sports cars to St.-Tropez, nearly got killed in an auto accident, twice got married and divorced, made and spent a fortune. "Riches don't keep anyone from feeling unhappy...