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...virtue of courage, my dear," explained the Hippodrome impresario who discovered her, "but in the theater one virtue has never been as handy as a couple of vices." And virtue was not her only handicap. In the day of the hourglass figure, Yvette was as bony as the Eiffel Tower, and, over all, decided Oscar Wilde, the ugliest woman in the world...
...blue space. On around the circle, clockwise, yellow-bedecked dancers pirouette to Adam's Giselle and Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Ballet is further honored in the red petal, with Stravinsky's Firebird and Ravel's Daphnis and Chloé depicted near, of all things, the Eiffel Tower. Next, Debussy's Pelléas and Mélisande swoon under a yellow angel...
...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...