Word: jourdan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Miranda--a blond Venus with overbite--and her older lover are found murdered. He is wearing shoes by Bally; hers are red leather Charles Jourdan. Anyone who thinks the cause of death is more important than who made the footgear has missed the point. With flashbacks, overheated sex scenes and brand names, Gwen Davis announces her arrival in the high-rent district of Judith Krantz and Jackie Collins: "A riveted audience at Elaine's, a heavy-breathing browsing crowd at Rizzoli's." Forget serious. The hollandaise sauce from La Cote Basque that Miranda pours over her lover, the custom-made...
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 today. For the Gaston's and Honore's of the world to drive a spurned love into attempting suicide means entree into the choicest of Parisian circles. Girls: they bore Gaston. "It's either...
...about the stage practically a miniature dance. In what could easily be the most dated and even offensive scene in Gigi, "The Contract Song," where she negotiates Gigi's marriage arrangements with Gaston's lawyer, Palmer establishes herself as the unquestioned star of this show, a brilliant standard that Jourdan never matches...
...Jourdan's leading lady in 13 Rue De L'Amour, Taina Elg as Mamita likewise upstages Jourdan here. In fact, Jourdan seems at his best when he and "Mamita" reminisce their past affair. Jourdan looks almost pitiably reassured to here her say. "How strong you were, how young and gay A Prince of Love in every...
...Hewitt deliver the most uneven performance as Gaston. The playboy with a coeur has always been a difficult one, especially when further tainted with heavy ennui. Jourdan never allowed this boredom to turn to bitterness, but like so much else in this production, the bitterness, but ershadows the sweet. Jourdan made even boredom elegant; Hewitt practically expectorates the chorus "It's a bore" as if he were sending his garcon back with some ill-prepared pleasant...