Word: cocteau
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...about her late good friend Jean Cocteau, the French poet and film maker? "That's all been written about too," she says sourly. "In your voice, we hear the voice of the Lorelei," Cocteau had rhapsodized. "In your look, the Lorelei turns to us." Ah yes. What, then, does she think of Charles de Gaulle, still another famous friend? She jumps up and pulls down from one of the bookshelves that line the end of her living room a copy of Marlene Dietrich's ABC-her own special updating of La Rochefoucauld-and begins thumbing through the pages...
Welles is the star, but the walk-on players-from Saroyan to Stravinsky, Hepburn to Hemingway, Cocteau to Kazan-are not bad. Houseman invites the reader to an opening-night party of the cultivated mind, and he is the perfect host. · T.E. Kalem
Beauty and the Beast, a'la Cocteau. 8:30, Feb. 18. Chan...
PARIS has two monuments," Jean Cocteau once remarked. "The Eiffel Tower and Maurice Chevalier." Last week, after Chevalier died in Paris at 83, only one was left...
Parade created a scandal and launched Picasso as a public personality. Cocteau's milieu absorbed him, and he became a social lion, resplendent in dinner jacket and red sash, surrounded by titled groupies. During this "bourgeois" phase of Picasso's life, he made a disastrous marriage to one of Diaghilev's dancers, a Russian girl named Olga Koklova. Picasso, as several of "his" women have made clear, was never an easy man to live with. As he put it bluntly to his later mistress Françoise Gilot, women are for him "either goddesses or doormats." (Picasso...