Word: eiffel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hotel suite with an overnight bag full of Givenchy originals. While falling in love on the job, Hepburn and Holden imagine themselves to be the hero and heroine of a movie within a movie: a master criminal steals the print of a film called The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower and holds it for ransom. Got it? Forget it. Lacking inspiration, Writer George Axelrod (The Seven Year Itch) and Director Richard Quine should have taken a hint from Holden, who writes his movie, takes a long sober look at what he has wrought, and burns...
...Succeed in Paris Turning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying into a French musical is only slightly more difficult than uprooting the Empire State Building and balancing it upside down on the tip of the Eiffel Tower. But a Paris Match editor named Raymond Castans has done it, and Comment Réussir dans les Affaires sans Vraiment Se Fatiguer is a new critical hit in Paris...
...spanking new Paris Cinema, with its drunken murals of Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe, with its little attendant in gendarme costume (a la Jack Lemmon) who welcomes all with a sheepish "bon soir," with its rotund manager exuding continental pleasantries in Maurice Chevalier tones as he hustles customers to their upholstered seats, really put me in the mood for Billy Liar...
...company's founder, Andre Citroen, a high-living production and promotion wizard who revamped France's sluggish artillery-shell plants in World War I, later introduced Henry Ford's mass-production techniques to begin his auto firm. He advertised with songs and skywriting, once had the Eiffel Tower strung with 250,000 lights that spelled CITROEN. But he spent even more lavishly on development and the Deauville gaming tables, lost control of the company to the more staid and highly secretive Tiremaker Michelin in 1934, and died heartbroken within a year...
...week's end the New Lavender Hill Mob, as Fleet Street inevitably christened it, was still at large-probably, guessed Scotland Yard, holed up within metropolitan London. Unlike Alec Guinness' mob, which melted down its loot into solid-gold Eiffel Tower souvenirs and shipped them to Paris, the real-life quartet probably aimed to export its bullion to India, where gold fetches twice the world market price. "I see no reason why they should be caught," said one expert. "They have a market for it all ready. It's that kind...