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...longer vie for le scoop but for l'exclusivité. Le disc-jockey, to be known as l'animateur, would play le palmarès instead of le hit parade. These changes should make le show business as stodgy as it sounds when called l'industrie du spectacle. Clearly, the Belglais controversy will require many sessions of le brainstorming - or rather le remueméninges, which means, hélas, stirring up the membranes of the brain...
Young Charles Baudelaire set out to shock the middle class and, alas, succeeded. One hundred and ten years after his death the author of the first body of modern poetry, Les Fleurs du Mai, is customarily remembered as the original Bad Boy Artist...
...hand-tinted legend has displaced the coruscating verse-a fault, says this terse, canny biography, of the poet himself. According to Alex de Jonge, a Fellow and Tutor of New College, Oxford, Les Fleurs du Mai is "Pilgrim 's Progress in reverse," and so was Baudelaire's life...
...biography accurately describes Les Fleurs du Mai as an "anatomy of addiction"-of men and women hooked on drugs, alcohol and every variation of sex. Baudelaire himself drank to the brink of alcoholism and took 150 drops a day of laudanum-twice the dose fatal to a nonaddict. Yet the drug Baudelaire was most addicted to was hope: luxe, calme et volupté-the elegance of Islamic paradise, a Christian's heavenly peace and a pagan bliss of the senses. Baudelaire chanted of this blessed trinity while he suffered the diseases of the age: poverty, rage and soul-withering...
...alive are his incantations today? In 1857, the same year Flaubert was prosecuted for the alleged obscenity of Madame Bovary, Baudelaire was fined 300 francs for "offending public morality" with Les Fleurs du Mai. The theme of Flaubert's novel-the bored-to-adultery housewife-is the stuff soap operas are made of 120 years later. Today, Baudelaire's tragically ignored poems retain their original capacity to lacerate the skin of the mind...