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This is the upper middle class of French society, portrayed here by Claude Chabrol with harrowing humor, and its overriding principle is that no shock waves are tolerated. Just Before Nightfall, an intelligent and wholly unsparing dark comedy, concerns an advertising executive named Charles (Michel Bouquet) who murders his mistress. Charles discovers-as did Hickey, under rather more intense circumstances in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh-that what is insupportable is the weight of pardon...
Gallic Subtlety. Although President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing virtually abolished censorship six months ago, Secretary of State for Culture Michel Guy still has authority to ban anything on stage or screen that goes too far. Guy, however, is more concerned about violence and drugs than explicit sex. If he had been in office at the time, Guy says he might well have banned Stanley Kubrick's chilling A Clockwork Orange, which anyone over 18 could see, while letting Last Tango in Paris sail through. Another branch of government, however, may give the porn purveyors some anxiety...
Cancer Surgery. Thrice married, most recently to Lyn Fisher Sheresky Revson, whom he divorced in 1974, Revson was aware that he was dying after cancer surgery last year and began to look for a successor. The man he chose is Michel Bergerac, 43, former president of ITT-Europe, a capable, urbane Frenchman (and naturalized U.S. citizen) who was lured to Revlon by a $5 million contract and a chance to run his own show. Bergerac plans to work on, among other things, developing greater management depth at Revlon-one detail that never interested Revson...
...debut visit with the Stuttgart and his first full-scale work, Daphnis and Chloë. The choice was an odd one. Daphnis and Chloë has not been a lucky ballet. The 1912 Paris première by Diaghilev's Ballet Russe suffered from underrehearsal and, according to Michel Fokine, who choreographed the work, indifferent dancing by Karsavina and Nijinsky. No one faulted the dancing of Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes in the 1951 Sadler's Wells revival, but the public was cool to Choreographer Frederick Ashton's jarring transfer of the mythic lovers from...
Prostitution is legal in France, but soliciting customers is not. It always has been a difficult distinction to make in practice, and last week the angry prostitutes of Lyon decided that the police were trampling on their rights. As part of Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski's general crackdown on vice, local police had been regularly pulling in Lyon's lovelies and fining them $40 for "conduct tending to provoke debauchery." In protest, some 200 prostitutes from the Lyon area camped with sleeping bags in the 15th century St.-Nizier church and announced that they would continue to occupy...