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...Fran??ois-Henri Pinault Jr. LUXURY TYCOON...
DIED. PHILIPPE DE BROCA, 71, director of frenetic film comedies of France's New Wave; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. A onetime assistant to Fran??ois Truffaut, he made dozens of films over five decades but gained most acclaim in the 1960s with the spy spoof That Man from Rio, which followed Jean-Paul Belmondo on a global search for a statuette, and the antiwar satire King of Hearts, starring a young Alan Bates as a disillusioned World War I soldier, a flop in France but a longtime art-house cult...
Before the Swiss watchmaker Jean Fran??ois Ruchonnet designed the Monaco V4 concept watch, he lifted the hood of his Maserati, gazed at the engine and thought about the belts. Then he decided to create a similar belt system in miniature to replace the interlocking gears in mechanical watches. Each belt replaces five to six gears, thus simplifying construction. Visible on the underside, at right, the belts are also better at absorbing shock, for a more reliable and accurate timepiece...
...Fran??ois Truffaut called them "privileged moments": brief shots that offer snapshots of the soul in a glance or caress. A Very Long Engagement, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's first film since the immensely popular and affecting Amélie, is full of those moments. In adapting Sébastien Japrisot's novel set in World War I and its chaotic aftermath, Jeunet and writer Guillaume Laurant have taken virtually the whole book and thrown it onscreen at a breathless, speed-reading pace. A fabulous image will appear, hurtle into your busy brain, then give way to the next...
...post advertises 15 hours' flying time on a 14-seat bombardier jet for the bargain price of $75,000. Another asks where to buy hunting apparel in Edinburgh. Anyone know the name of the maître d' at the Manhattan restaurant Downtown Cipriani? It's Fran??ois, darling, says a thread of responses...