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...June 1996, Bauby blinked out a letter to some 60 friends and associates to reassure them that his state was not vegetative. Editors at French publisher Robert Laffont, who had worked with Bauby before his stroke, were so impressed that they proposed he use the method to write a book about his condition. Bauby accepted and, composing and editing his prose before dawn, dictated entire sections of the book from memory, letter by letter, to Laffont employee Claude Mendibil...
...before his death, founded an association for victims of locked-in syndrome and their families and participated in a film aired on French TV last week about his struggle. "He loved life, and he lived it intensely--both before and after his accident," says Susanna Lea, a spokeswoman for Laffont who worked with Bauby. "He has left a legacy that will not be soon forgotten." French readers certainly don't seem ready to forget. The book's initial run of 25,000 copies has sold out, and it seems certain to land near the top of France's best-seller...
...stud earring, with the war-weary eyes and tales from the front lines of Nelson Mandela's new South Africa. Carter signed with Sygma, a prestigious picture agency representing 200 of the world's best photojournalists. "It can be a very glamorous business," says Sygma's U.S. director, Eliane Laffont. "It's very hard to make it, but Kevin is one of the few who really broke through. The pretty girls were falling for him, and everybody wanted to hear what...
...students, mostly Band members, wore Harvard paraphernalia and sang "10,000 Men of Harvard" for photographer Jean-Pierre Laffont, who said that the issue will be available sometime next week at Out-of-Town News...
...innocent alike. When the movie begins, the police had been losing nearly all of their informers. It is removed that they had, intentionally set up the last one. Hence, as there are no volunteers for new informers the brigade decides to find its own candilates. They decide on Dede Laffont. Who had once worked for Roger Massina, the leader of the Belleville gang. Dede is a low-key villain who resembles a civil servant more closely than a thugbut had had to leave the gang because of a jealousy over Nicole (Nathalie Baye), a prostitute with whom...