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...fallible humans to the current four-person officiating teams. "Thierry Henry's handling of the ball should relaunch the debate on video in soccer, because viewing replays would have allowed officials to sanction the offense, disallow the goal and preserve the integrity of the match," former French referee Bruno Derrien told France Info radio. (Read "A 'Foreigner' Quota for Soccer...
...made him the cane-twirling darling of Continental and American revues. In fact, his charm makes it hard to understand how the young girl could prefer the bumbling young actor. While Francois Perreier, who plays Jacques, is properly eager, mooning and puffing in approximation of romantic ardor, and Marcelle Derrien is a pert and lovely Madeleine, both pale in the light of Chevalier's dazzling smile...
...pioneers. Man About Town's story line is one that the movies have worn to a smudge: Maurice Chevalier instructs a youngster (François Perier) in the Art of Love. Thereupon the youngster steals the oldster's girl (Marcelle Derrien). The parody is heightened by direction that reduces action almost to a puppet-like simplicity, and by a harsh lighting that gives actors and sets the two-dimensional look of paper cutouts...
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