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Even before the French Open kicked off this week, NATHALIE TAUZIAT was swinging at her fellow players. In her newly released memoir, Les Dessous du Tennis Feminin (The Underside of Women's Tennis), Tauziat, 32, complains that the game's fans and the Women's Tennis Association are more impressed by good looks than raw talent. She is particularly dismayed at the popularity of pulchritudinous ANNA KOURNIKOVA, 18, one of the top money earners on the tour last year despite the fact that she has never won a singles tournament. Tauziat brands Kournikova a self-absorbed "Lolita" who plays...
...middle-aged. The same generation that 15-odd years ago in its flaming youth stole the stage is now dragging culture-consumers of all ages and sensibilities through its mid-life crisis. The children of Marx and Coca-Cola, as Godafd described them in his wonderful 1966 film Masculin-Feminin, are now the adults of EST and Perrier. And their movies--An Unmarried Woman, The Goodbye Girl, Kramer Versus Kramer, and now Shoot the Moon--are self-centered and, mostly, boring. Television is now catching on, with ABC offering a TV-movie that cashes in on both the trend toward...
Godard has always needed to know how people think about the real things and events of their experience. Masculin-Feminin (1965) included a crude attempt to find this out directly: one sequence had Jean-Pierre Leaud go around Paris asking housewives sociological questions. Significant though the confusion of their resources seemed, it only invited the question, What do these women actually mean? or, How are they using language? That's the question Leaud and Berto now realize they must answer before they can know anything else. First they decide...
From the shot of Paris. Truffaut cuts to lead actor Jean-Picrre Leaud (Godard's Mascudin-Feminin. La Chinoise Truffaut's Four Hundred Blows, Skolimowski's Le Depart) reading Balzac. The use of books is a Novell Vague device which reveals Truffaut's Hundred Blows when twelve-year old Leaud kept a bust of Balzae in his room...
Specifically marked for the application of La Terreur Feminine, last week, were MM. Les Senateurs Delahaye, Dominique Cuminal, Bienvenu-Martin, Massabuau and Schrameck, "qui sont," read the feminist proclamation, "absolument opposes au principe du vote feminin...