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Nouveau Riche If you ask Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, the crusty chief curator of the Louvre's sculpture department, what has changed in the Loyrette era, she'll grumble a bit about the heavier load of administration that comes the way of the museum's seven departments. She's also not convinced that appointing department heads for just three years at a time is a smart move. Until Loyrette came along, they were appointed for life. "Five years would be better. You can't get anything done in three," says Bresc-Bautier, who was appointed by Loyrette after...
...last fall (1,000 are to be in place by the end of 2005). The government also funded a series of chilling anti-speeding commercials aired last year - including radio spots consisting simply of graveside eulogies - designed to scare drivers into behaving. But the key to the success, argues Geneviève Jurgensen of the League Against Road Violence, is enforcement. "People won't heed the law unless there is a real probability of getting caught," she says. Now there's an argument to keep those speed cameras rolling...
...appear in movies and are usually portrayed, as here, by Jack Lemmon -Alex is disgruntled, angst-ridden, desperate and about dead-ended. His life is a crumbling edifice that needs some heavy restoration work. What it gets, instead, is a demolition job in the person of one Maritza (Geneviéve Bujold), an aggressively nubile gypsy. You know the type: wild, tough, unconventional, sexy, mystical, earth-spirited-all those things. She also reads palms, tea leaves and the bottoms of feet...
Manhattan-based Pet Astrologers Geneviève and Christopher Cerf produce elaborate "caniscopes" for such superdogs as Dustin Hoffman's Subway and President Ford's Liberty ("As she grows older Liberty will really pour herself into her sexual relationships"). Los Angeles, which not unexpectedly is the epicenter of animalmorphism, boasts a special limousine service for pets, which is patronized by, among others, Redd Foxx's Saint Bernard and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.'s llama. There is even a pet boutique that will have a shaggy dog's excess fur made into a sweater in Scotland...
...Fernand Maillet, loved late dinners at La Tour. "As he was obliged by ecclesiastical rules to stop eating at midnight so that he could conduct early morning Mass," Terrail says, "he was in the habit of turning his watch back an hour so that he could have a Sainte Geneviève soufflé." An ardent addict is Ava Gardner, who once called the restaurant at 11 p.m., when all the cooks had gone home, and asked if she could have dinner. "Certainement," said Terrail, who proceeded to cook her a steak. "It was the worst I've ever...