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...fire that gutted the top three floors of the Time & Life building on Avenue Matignon in Paris took the lives of Public Relations Director Jean de Wissocq and Personnel Officer Françoise Hirou. Last week, in a moving ceremony presided over by Ambassador Charles Bohlen, 31 French businessmen presented the Paris staff with a Germaine Richier sculpture, symbolizing both their sympathy and their friendship...
...until page 45 of this vastly overpraised French novel does one learn that "this is the story of François Besson." This forthright statement is doubly reassuring, because it has been preceded by a weird and frenzied surrealistic opener in which the world crazily assumes the aspect of a petrified urban forest, "a deserted planet, full of signs and booby traps...
CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). The season's première is Part 1 of Testadirapa, an Italian film about a 19th century youngster who lives an idyllic life until the authorities rule him a truant. Kukla, Fran and Ollie are hosts...
...Helsinki, Palmer and the eggs get themselves scrambled with a beautiful blonde spy (the late Françoise Dorléac) who is cooling it in red fox, and a jolly American spy (Karl Malden), who is sweating it in a sauna bath. Both of them are working for General Midwinter, a mad Texas multimillionaire (Ed Begley), who is operating a private CIA against Russia, coordinated by a giant walk-in computer complex-the billion-dollar brain...
None of these earlier reincarnations bore much relation to the true Bonnie and Clyde story, and they did not bother Benton and Newman. Frankly imitating the juxtaposition of dulcet tragedy and saline comedy that characterizes the work of France's François Truffaut, the two writers decided to write a script for him-even though they had never met him. In their original version, Clyde was a homosexual; he and Bonnie shared the favors of C. W. Moss in a weird menage a trois. At the time, Truffaut was working on Farenheit 451, but he took a week...