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Love Is a Ball. In this Riviera-based frappe, Hope Lange is an heiress who chases Chauffeur Glenn Ford. Charles Boyer adds a zestful touch of Gallic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: May 3, 1963 | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

Love Is a Ball. In this Riviera-based frappė, Hope Lange is an heiress who chases Chauffeur Glenn Ford. Charles Boyer adds a zestful touch of Gallic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Apr. 26, 1963 | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

Poor France-it is blessed with three immense schools of popular songwriters. There is the rock-twist crowd, which follows the spiritual guidance of Elvis Presley. Chubby Checker and a Gallic hero named Johnny Hallyday. and spawns an army of combos with names like Les Chats Sauvages. There are "The Defenders of French Music." troubadour-poets like Georges Brassens and Leo Ferre who sing their verses to naughty café melodies. And there is Charles Aznavour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: Tu Paries, Charles | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

...long day's journey from the corner épicene, past sidewalk stalls to the butcher, the baker and the wine merchant. Small shopkeepers still do 85% of France's retail business, but the prudent, finicky and habitual French are rapidly succumbing to a thoroughly un-Gallic habit: one-stop shopping à l'Américaine. The pioneer and fastest-growing example of the trend is Prisunic (One-Price), the Continent's largest retail chain and a sort of bouillabaisse of the U.S. five-and-dime store, the discount house and the supermarket. In Prisunic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Supermarts on the Seine | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

Adding just the right whiff of Gallic is indestructible Charles Boyer, a delight to watch as he runs a school for would-be grooms, whose current pupil is Ricardo Montalban, the runner-up in the match for Hope's millions. High point in Boyer's my-fair-laddie crash course: instruction by the master himself in the art of nibbling an arm ("The elbow is a very nice place, and from there it is all good"). Backgrounds of the Grande Corniche are getting to be a grand cliché in movies nowadays, and Ball's scenario...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pink Baggage on the Riviera | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

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