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Delicious and, like amphetamine candy, addictive. One gobbles up the testimony in Edie, culled by Jean Stein and George Plimpton from interviews with some 250 people who crossed paths or swords with the poor little rich girl. An awful fascination obtains to the book's elegant gossip. See Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary and hitman of the double-domed Right, dance wickedly on the grave of one of Edie's ancestors. Recall the night that Rock Star Jim Morrison paid sexual obeisance to Jimi Hendrix on the stage of Steve Paul's nightclub, the Scene. Watch Warhol...
Directed and Written by Jean-Pierre Melville...
...period when French cineastes noted that two things they admired, American genre movies and existential philosophy, had one thing in common: an admiration for the heroic figure who defined himself and his code of personal honor by plain action rather than fancy words. Writer-Director Melville (who was born Jean-Pierre Grumbach, borrowed his nom de screen from his favorite American novelist, and died in 1973) was then very much a cantankerous outsider in the world of official French cinema. To scrape up the financing for Bob, Melville had to be a kind of existential hero himself. It says something...
FRANCE. Despite the efforts of France's year-old Socialist government to stimulate growth, Jean-Marie Chevalier, professor of economics at the University of Paris Nord, says he is being optimistic in foreseeing a 1% increase in the G.N.P. this year. One of the main effects of the government's effort to foster public consumption has been a rush of imports. The most dramatic example was foreign automobiles, which in May accounted for 32% of all new sales. French exports, on the other hand, have declined 3% so far this year...
...Billie Jean King stayed longer. After her record 100th Wimbledon singles match had been played and won on an outer court, King repaired to her spiritual home, Centre Court, fought off three match points against Tanya Harford and threatened to stay forever. "When you think of 100 matches," King said, not to mention six singles championships, 20 Wimbledon titles in all, 22 years at the task, "it makes you feel tired. But I'm not tired. I'm all excited." She is 38. "I'll still be thinking of winning Wimbledon when I'm 100." Heroically...