Word: fleur
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...dirt or any antique grime cherished from the old Bick era. A dark blue rug covers the ungodly Bick tile, and a double set of glass doors throws up a space-lock between the dining room and the filthy sidewalk ecology outside. The fancy Shakespearean name and the fleur-de-lis table mats won't fool too many patrons: this place is about as Elizabethan as Dayton, Ohio...
...latest acknowledgment came this year in the U.S., where she has emerged as, of all things, the first sex symbol of educational television (if one ignores Julia Child). Susan is Fleur, the exquisite arch-bitch of The Forsyte Saga, a role for which she last week won an Emmy Award as the best actress in a dramatic series. In most of the 40-odd other countries that have been enthralled by the greatest soap opera ever filmed, Susan is already a major star. In Norway a mob of 60,000 turned out to see her-in a town of only...
...land the Forsyte role, Susan arranged her initial meeting with Producer Donald Wilson at a French restaurant in London. She arrived early and managed to be deep in fluent conversation with the maitre d'hotel when he arrived. "She knew," says Wilson, "that Fleur was half French. I thought that was an intelligent girl. And at once I was caught by her tremendous vivacity and the fact that she was very much a '20s figure, which was very important for Fleur." His casting choice was impeccable, for in every way she held her own in that top-class...
...Susan is temporarily retired while awaiting her first child. After that she would like to do a season with the British National Theater, and make serious films. In her TV and movie roles since Fleur she has been typecast once more. But this time Susan Hampshire likes it. "I love playing what people call bad characters," she says. "They've got so much character...
...most remarkable works of that period, Fille-Fleur, is at once colored with nostalgic memories of the bright costumes of his homeland and, in its ellipses and squares, prophetic of the direction that Vasarely would take. It was not until after the war that the artist, spurred on by the enterprising Paris dealer Denise Rene, was able to devote himself full time to his art. He read numerous scientific volumes and decided that Mondrian and Malevich had written fini to easel painting. "Pure physics suddenly revealed itself before my dazed eyes as the new poetic source," he recalls...