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...Handling, Cowan and their team must also play the role of efficient concierges for their more demanding guests. In 1996, Jean-Luc Godard, the ageless enfant terrible of the French New Wave, agreed to accompany his film For Ever Mozart to Toronto. "He had only two conditions," Handling recalls. "He insisted on a video suite to cut his movie, which we got for him; and he wanted to play tennis. So we brought in a tennis...
...film stars as well as singers. Bing was voted the most popular actor of 1944 and 1945, and his Best Actor Oscar (for Going My Way) showed that he'd secured the admiration of his peers. Sinatra, who also had an Oscar (for From Here to Eternity) and a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award of all things, headlined A movies for three decades. These two were the model Elvis had to follow; and if he hadn't wanted to, his protective manager, "Colonel" Tom Parker, would have made him do it. In the 50s, being a mainstream movie star meant scrubbing...
...Besides these obvious similarities, the scene was actually quite different from the trendy Parisian nightclubs on the Champs Elysées. Rather than tight-jean-wearing and gelled-hair young bon chic, bon genre types clumped together around bottles of expensive vodka and champagne, the firemen opened their locales to a rather eclectic crowd. The bouncers did not check for fancy shoes and good looks, but for lack of weapons or alcohol (luckily we made sure to dispose of the latter beforehand). People of different generations—children under 12 and creepy old men alike could enter this late...
...PARIS-BORN JEW AND THE son of Polish immigrants, Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger sparked plenty of controversy --especially as Archbishop of Paris. Despite feeling hurt by Jewish leaders who called him a traitor, Lustiger, the only modern Catholic prelate to be born Jewish (he converted at age 14), aggressively pursued a bridge-building agenda that included denouncing anti-Semitism and championing interfaith relations. Asked to sum up his life, Lustiger, whose mother died at Auschwitz, said he was "a Cardinal, a Jew and the son of an immigrant...
...less than 24 hours, the emperors of angst were gone. Bergman, 89, and Antonioni, 94, were two of the three surviving auteurs who defined serious European movies in the 60s - when serious movies pretty much were European. Of the decade's transcendent film figures, only that perpetual iconoclast Jean-luc Godard, 76, is left standing. If I were he, I'd insist on round-the-clock medical attention...