Word: chateauful
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...Scarface, discovered Jean Harlow, personally designed the brassiere that made Jane Russell famous. He was a friend to Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Katharine Hepburn. Then he steadily became more of a loner. He secretly married green-eyed Actress Jean Peters in 1957. Now they live in a French Regency chateau in Bel Air, surrounded by high walls, bodyguards and rumors...
Chapman was briefly a staff officer, map-making in a safe chateau but, to his own mild surprise, he found that he was happier when he was back in the trenches. At the Armistice, he discovered that he had so completely identified himself with his battalion that he refused demobilization to spend a year with the Army of Occupation. The experience is so subtly conveyed that the reader is not surprised. Chapman's war is told without bitterness (though with an almighty disdain for the political bunglers and profiteers and civilian patriots who prolonged the agony), and this sets...
...Godard (Breathless), a wayward but talented wonder who fills the gap between his more inspired movies by sketching out such trifles as Outsiders. Heroine Anna Karina plays a wistful student who meets two ne'er-do-wells and helps them plan the robbery of her aunt's chateau. They bungle the job, but meanwhile abandon themselves to a couple of amusing Godardian escapades-taking over a cafe with an impudent little dance of alienation, romping through the Louvre in about nine minutes to beat the record set by a busy American tourist. The rest is pretty random stuff...
Somewhere Over the Rimbaud. This new collection was discovered in 1948 by Gilbert Lely, a French scholar, at the chateau of the Marquis Xavier de Sade, a direct descendant. It would be impolite to call Lely a sadist, but he certainly is a Sadean, and a doting one at that. Lely hopes that the letters will help readers to "enjoy De Sade's dark erotic paradise without guilt." Freud and Havelock Ellis ("the supreme triumph of human idealism") are cited. Fair enough from these specialists, but Lely insists that one letter can be compared only to "the music...
Stones That Draw. Cassatt never married, but she lived a full family life until her death in 1926. Her parents, sisters, nephews and nieces were always visiting her villa on the Riviera, her Paris flat or chateau near Beauvais. Even in her old age, she had a prim, acerbic wit: she found Monet too unintelligent, criticized Renoir's lusty art as too "animal," scorned the generation of the cubists as "cafe loafers...