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...Fran??ois Payard...
...Janus was a leading distributor of foreign films--such instant classics as Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries, with Bibi Andersson (above), and Fran??ois Truffaut's Jules and Jim. Janus later spawned the Criterion Collection, the ultra-classy DVD outfit. Now the child is paying tribute to the parent company, with a 13-lb. 12-oz., foot-wide box containing 50 discs of wonderful films once handled by Janus, plus a 240-page, lavishly illustrated book. With important works by Jean Renoir, Sergei Eisenstein and Michelangelo Antonioni, this package really is essential--the perfect starter set for a full film...
Segolene Royal has succeeded by presenting herself as the image of honorable French womanhood and employing the politics of charm [Oct. 9]. She is adept at handling policy issues pragmatically rather than ideologically. Since her partner, Socialist Party secretary Fran??ois Hollande, has also been touted as a potential presidential candidate, there is an across-the-water parallel. Like Hillary and Bill Clinton in the U.S., this may be another welcome case of getting two for the price...
...making money faster than you can say premier grand cru class--and the 9,000 others, about 500 of whom are estimated to be in dire straits; traditionalists and reformers."We thought we were the king of carrots. We just didn't see the others coming," admits Jean-Fran??ois Bruere, who heads a 220-member regional cooperative. "We never bothered about consumers. Now we're beginning to wake up." The shakeout is bearing fruit: after dropping 20% over the past five years, Bordeaux wine exports are rising again, led by the top producers...
...didn’t win an Ig Nobel prize tonight—and especially if you did—better luck next year.” No one left the ceremony empty handed. Winners and losers alike were treated to complimentary “Dr. Fran??s Anti-Hiccup Kits,” complete with surgical gloves and K-Y jelly...