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...very funny, very entertaining. Stiller, who co-wrote it, directed it and stars in it, manages to appeal to fashion insiders and civilians alike. The reason is not the plot. A mere description of it is enough to put anyone off: a cabal of fashion designers including Karl Lagerfeld, Jean-Paul Gaultier and, strangely, American Vogue editor Anna Wintour look-alikes, has been brainwashing male models to commit all the major assassinations in the last 100 years and they want Derek Zoolander to take down their next target...
...father?s election closed one door, it opened another. Despite his meager qualifications - he only finished a few years of university and had worked as a journalist for about nine years - Jean-Christophe in 1986 was named chief presidential adviser on African affairs. He soon gained a reputation for currying favor with African leaders on behalf of the Elysée, delivering messages dictated by the President - thus earning him the nickname Papa-m?a-dit (Daddy told me). His undistinguished diplomatic career, constantly shadowed by rumors and unfavorable press coverage, concluded in 1992 as he left the halls...
Last Christmas, as a result of an inquiry into illegal arms trading to Angola, Jean-Christophe was jailed for three weeks. After being officially placed under investigation for influence peddling, he was freed from custody on a $700,000 bail - a sum paid by his mother, with whom he has lived since his release. In his book Mitterrand denies the charges, which were dismissed last summer on a technicality, claiming the $1.8 million that ended up in his Swiss bank account came from consulting, not illegal arms trading. And again he says that he is a victim - this time...
That defense ignores the "everyone is doing it" environment of the Mitterrand years. But it is true that France?s power establishment - and public - has never been kind to the Mitterrand boy. In the preface to the book, journalist Pierre Péan backs Jean-Christophe?s claim that he provides a handy target for all the accumulated hatred and frustration generated by his father. Péan admits to having been among those who "adopted, without verifying, the numerous rumors about...
...battered soul himself, he claims to be responsible for one crime only, the original sin determining his miserable fate: that of being his father?s son. But six weeks after the book?s publication, a new investigation was opened into Jean-Christophe?s business dealings in Africa. Maybe the judge hasn?t read this book...