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...your talent.' " He also disperses a shower of eccentricities. He makes his own breakfast, tossing two bananas, three eggs, half a pint of milk and some Bosco into a Waring Blendor. He flies kites. He wears cowboy boots with his tuxedo. He drives a silver 390-h.p. Facel-Vega sports car. "I've had beers in every kind of bar in this country." he drawls, "and I've raced with every kind of hood on the road...
...time when all important scenes in French movies took place in bedrooms, but in De Gaulle's Fifth Republic this is no longer true-except for Brigitte Bardot films, and Brigitte, of course, is only for tourists. The most important cars are a forceful but overstated Facel-Vega in which Yves Montand takes Ingrid Bergman for drives, and a giddy Triumph roadster in which Anthony Perkins takes Ingrid for drives. The starring restaurant, to which Perkins takes Ingrid for meals, naturally is Maxim's. But the Deauville Casino does creditably in the supporting role of the place where...
...village of Lourmarin. There, with their 14-year-old twins, they put their marriage together again. Camus' friend Michel Gallimard, the nephew of his publisher, stopped last week with his wife and daughter on his way from Cannes to Paris. The car he was driving was a sleek Facel Vega, and Gallimard asked if Camus would like a ride to Paris...
...Facel's Facellia, a handcrafted, sports-touring convertible designed for the overseas luxury market. First truly high-performance French car for the public since World War II, the Facellia features a four-cylinder, 115-h.p. engine with a top speed of 114 m.p.h. U.S. price...
...cars from 68 automakers in nine countries, and as always the crowds clustered admiringly around the rich and the racy. Britain's famed Rolls-Royce showed off a new Silver Cloud convertible ($19,350); there was a 150-m.p.h. Aston Martin sports sedan ($9,870), a new French Facel-Vega sedan ($12,800), and a handsome roadster ($10,500) from Germany's B.M.W. But the real news this year was the continuing growth of the small-car market, and the automakers' pitch to the family that would rather spend its money on two modest cars than...