Word: cocteau
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...have not yet surmounted the chauvinistic prejudices that permit Belgians to think of neighboring Dutchmen as supercilious stuffed shirts, Germans to regard Italians as hopelessly unambitious and inefficient. As for the French, all too many are still reared with an overweening sense of cultural and linguistic superiority that Jean Cocteau once described with the confession: "When I was little, I believed that foreigners could not really talk at all, but were only pretending...
MONDAY: Stravinsky Remembered. A tribute to composer Igor Stravinsky features a rare performance of the opera "Le Rossignol" along with documentary footage of Stravinsky coaching Jean Cocteau and being painted by Picasso. CH. 2. 8. p.m. Color...
SATURDAY: Beauty and the Beast. Poet Jean Cocteau directed this adult fairy-tale in France soon after the Nazis evacuated. Lyrical escapism. CH. 2. 8 p.m. Color...
Beauty and the Beast. A remarkable and poetic fantasy created in 1946 by the versatile French writer, Jean Cocteau, an occasional, but master, film-maker. This luxurious fairy tale dream dances and mimes to George Auric's score and has sets and make-up by the finest artists of French theater. A great film of striking beauty...
...sometimes wears thick glasses; lines radiate from her mouth, and when she sits, something she never does in public, there is a slight bulge around the middle. Still, she is a very good-looking 70, and her magnificently alluring voice is ageless. If she no longer looks like Cocteau's Lorelei, she still sounds like her-or the Lola Lola of The Blue Angel and the Frenchy of Destry Rides Again. That alone may be enough to make her special one of the brighter hours of the TV season...