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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"Behind every great fortune there is a crime," wrote Honore de Balzac, and Swiss bankers seem to be concluding that the French novelist was right. Less than one month after freezing the bank accounts of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Switzerland last week took similar action against Haiti's deposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: Baby Doc's Cold Cash | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

It matters little that Jourdan has starred in; films as diverse as Madame Bavary, Can-Can, and the Silver Bears, played everyone from a BBC Dracula to a sinister would-be James Bond nemesis in Octopussy. For anyone who has ever seen the MGM movie classic Gigi, Louis Jourdan is...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Gigi Redux | 12/4/1984 | See Source »

It is hard to look at Jourdan now and imagine that much has really changed. Grandfather and counselor d'amour to Gaston, and narrator of the show, Honore calls himself "old enough to know my faults, but young enough to still enjoy them." It is only half-true of Jourdan...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Gigi Redux | 12/4/1984 | See Source »

Honore Lachailles (Louis Jourdan) narrates the lyrical tale of a (play)boy and his love. To go out with Gaston is to enter the society gossip columns in this Paris as surely as to share drinks with Rona Barret is to bare one's private life in the Hollywood of...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Gigi Redux | 12/4/1984 | See Source »

Then comes Gigi. If Gaston and Honore want to treat women as little more than the stuff of shopping escapades. Mamita and Aunt Alicia (Betsy Palmer) will gladly help design the set While Honore keeps busy tutoring Gaston in the rules of the game--for status value, little can rival...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Gigi Redux | 12/4/1984 | See Source »

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