Word: chanelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sound the alarm and call out the guards! The local neighborhood theater may soon be showing commercials between features. Indeed, may already be. For the past month Screenvision, the U.S. subsidiary of a French company, has flashed 30-sec. ads, for Seiko watches and Chanel perfumes, on 1,800 screens across the country. Twelve hundred other theaters are now under contract, and Screenvision plans to expand the time slot for commercials to three minutes. A U.S. company, Cinemavision, claims to have signed up another 4,200 theaters for next year. If all 16,000 theaters in the country accept...
...achievement is that it faithfully re-creates the sand-blown Legion epics of the 1930s. It is an instant late show. And like those oldies on TV, it is dotted with lovably preposterous lines. The immaculate Deneuve, looking in a filthy casbah like a woman at a Chanel showing, coos to Hill: "You don't belong here." Hackman stands amid the devastation of a French outpost where the previous commander thought fortifications were unnecessary. "Obviously," says Hackman, eying the bleached skeletons, "he was wrong...
Catherine Deneuve smiles for Chanel, Margaux Hemingway for Babe, and Victoria Fyodorova for Alexandra de Markoff. For the Paris house of Nina Ricci, it's Andréa de Portago. Andréa Who? Not exactly a household name, Andréa, 26, is an aspiring New York actress and the daughter of the 17th Marquis de Portago, the flamboyant Spanish Grand Prix driver killed in 1957 in Italy's Mille Miglia. While doing the disco scene one night at Manhattan's Régine's, she was spotted by Nina Ricci representatives. They excitedly hired...
...Manhattan. "If I stick to singing, I won't go stir crazy waiting for another movie part," she says. Are her days as a TV hucksteress long gone then? "I wouldn't mind representing a product like Catherine Deneuve does," muses Andrea, considering the merits of Chanel No. 5. "That's not exactly chopped liver...
...Alexander, a buyer for Manhattan's trendy Henri Bendel: "There are some dressy suits that can be worn to the theater. We have them in black and strawberry velour just for that." The summer Olympic Games will give the warmup suit free saturation promotion on television. After the Chanel suit and Gucci loafers, it may just be the next elite uniform to take...