Word: brache
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...lonely women who had been made foolish and poorer by the gigolo and his lieutenants were listed, sensitively, on the federal indictment only as Victim A, Victim B and so forth. But Victim L was identified there on the page: Helen Brach, the candy heiress who vanished 17 years ago. Where had she gone? Her name was on the ledger with Rub the Lamp, Belgium Waffle, Rainman, Roseau Platiere and Empire -- Thoroughbred horses that had been murdered for the insurance. Brach's body has never been found...
...Quality Merchandise label is stamped all over Germinal. Gerard Depardieu, who heads the film's huge cast, is the one French actor with worldwide heft and clout. Director Claude Berri is among France's toniest auteurs and producers. Now he and Gerard Brach have adapted Emile Zola's sprawling indictment of a novel. The result is dispiriting: a minor work on a huge canvas...
...Huskies seized the moment and--inspired by their coxswain, Tony Brach--began to close...
WRITERS: GERARD BRACH AND JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD...
...hard core, the film was a Hollywood-size hit in France. Annaud also took some flak: for shooting a very French conte d'amour in English; for choosing pouty English actress Jane March as the girl; and mostly for rejecting Duras's script in favor of one by Gerard Brach. (Duras then wrote a new version of her story, The North China Lover, in the elliptical, present- tense style of a screenplay.) Shorn of the more explicit scenes, The Lover has arrived here to see whether Americans, whose response to Madonna's latest antics is outrage or ennui, will take...