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Next day on the Lido Brigitte turned out to roll on the beach at the photographers' commands-until the photographers began to scrap among themselves for vantage points. Unperturbed, Brigittt insisted that she was very happy to be a "universal sex symbol." She also ventured an opinion on Charles de Gaulle: "He s a bigger man than I am in every...
...full of second-hand garbage they can't see what's real if they try. They're the night club crew. Ten minutes in Chartres, an hour in the Louvre, and all day in some sidewalk cafe (where they can see all the other Americans). They're the Lido boys, who travel first class and stay at the Ritz. The double-scotch-with-ice bunch that finds its Europe in a guide book. They take the tours and chat with friends, all cameras and golf hats and sport shirts; but they can't see further than their sun glasses...
...Paris Trib, the portentous triviality of the questions offered an irresistible cue for lampoonery. In a question-and-answer column resembling the transcript of a real-life White House press conference, a presidential spokesman identified only as "Jim" started out by apologizing to reporters for arriving late from the Lido, a Paris cabaret famed for its comely, nude show girls. Getting down to business, Buchwald's Jim fidgeted through a set of spoof Q's and A's. Samples...
...Redron's eye lights up when he speaks of what it means to his country: "Just wait till we get the first oil to France. To help us celebrate, I'll get the Paris office to send us the Blue Bell girls from the Lido...
...Gupta, he said he planned to stay on in India for the present. In Paris, apparently unmoved by the news, his wife Ingrid Bergman had a happy, tearful reunion with pretty, 18-year-old Jennie Ann, her daughter by Dr. Peter Lindstrom. Ingrid showed the wide-eyed girl the Lido, the Louvre and Versailles, lost her temper only once to photographers who dogged them: "Can't you leave my miserable life alone...