Word: bardots
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...BARDOT, DENEUVE, FONDA...
...called gentlemen. Some men tell but do not kiss; they are called liars. Some men kiss and tell; they are called best- seller writers. The latest is Director Roger Vadim, who modestly subtitles his work "My Life with the Three Most Beautiful Women in the World." No. 1: Brigitte Bardot. She was 15, he was 22. When they parted, he was forgiving: "She always suffered if she had an affair with more than one man at a time." No. 2: Catherine Deneuve. She was 17, he was 32. Not long afterward she announced she was pregnant, he recalls, and "from...
...Warsaw, almost certainly not to return, she is still a force there. Gustaw Holoubek, her first theater coach, recalls her "incredible freshness. She had no complexes. She loved a man, for instance, and she did it ostentatiously. She was not prudish." Her friend Actress Iwona Sloczynska says, "Like Brigitte Bardot, she was a little bit of an animal. She wanted to tear away from her background; I was not surprised when she left Poland...
...passion.") There are workers and scattered archetypes: the bourgeois Plane Bourcel who fears the rise of laziness, or "je m'en foutisme"; the Duc de Brossac who does not know the meaning of the word meritocracy. More often, Zeldin offers type and then shatters it (we discover that Brigitte Bardot likes "looking after her house.") The ineffectiveness of such examples merely shows Zeldin is looking for something he cannot humanly give--stereotypes...
...Bardot's public life merged with her private life. On-screen and off, she rebelled against straitlaced convention. Continually besieged by the press, she blames journalists for destroying her second marriage, to Actor Jacques Charrier. ("You have no idea of what it was like. We couldn't do anything. Everything was deformed and blown up out of proportion by the press.") The marriage produced Bardot's only child, Nicolas, now 22. But the role of mother proved impossible for her. ("I couldn't bring up Nicolas. I couldn't possibly have looked after a baby...