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...film Bienvenu chez les Ch'tis (Welcome to the Ch'tis) has sold more than 5 million tickets during its first week in the cinemas, shattering the previous roll-out box-office record of 3.9 million set in 2006 by Les Bronzés 3 - a comedy that similarly pokes fun at notorious French stereotypes. But whereas the Bronzés film was just the latest in a hugely popular series spanning back to the original 1978 film, Bienvenu chez les Ch'tis has been a bolt-from-the-blue phenomenon. Its simple, sex- and violence-free tale about normal...
Loudly dressed and louder voiced, they're the tourists from hell. Self-centered and sex-obsessed, they rarely miss the chance to insult each other or the locals. And that's why the French lionize them. This septet of risibly dysfunctional characters collectively known as Les Bronzés (the Suntanners) have become Gallic cultural icons. Their egotism and low-brow fixations are still catnip to French comedy fans even though their debut film hit the screens a full 28 years ago. Their second - and only other - sortie into cinema, Les Bronzés Go Skiing, released a year later...
...nothing, and I moved on thinking it was over," recalls Berry. "Then they called and said I had the part; it turned out to be the beginning." If Balasko's fame is firmly founded on the humorously brusque characters she incarnated in films ranging from the 1978 satire Les Bronzés to the 2001 French version of Absolutely Fabulous, Berry says she's drawn to projects that weave mirth with serious and even sad themes. "That mix is more like life, and I find making that work harder than being exclusively funny or serious," Berry explains. "When it does...
...most of these graduates, eclectic a key word. It certainly applies to the food served at Miss Ruby's Café, which opened late last year in Manhattan. Says Ruth Bronz, the Texas-born owner-chef: "I plan menu changes on a regular basis, switching from Cajun-Creole to New Mexican to Shaker. I'm missionary about it." Shaker food, along with the fare of the Pennsylvania Dutch and the American Indians, has already packed them in at special festivals in the formal American Harvest restaurant at Manhattan's Vista International Hotel. And surely eclectic the word for the menu...
Also, Philip A. Kelsey of Leverett House and San Francisco, Lewis C. Lipson, of Winthrop House and Bronz. N. Y., Albert B. Masters, of Dunster House and Norfolk, Va., Jeffrey S. Padnos, of Dunster House and Holland, Mich., Erie Redman, of Lowell House and Seattle, Wash., and Leslie E. Schwah, of Quincy House and Ann Arhor. Mich...