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...piano (favorite composer: Chopin). He calls himself an amateur pianist; he practices twice a week, still learning new pieces. His wife Helene is a concert pianist who has just finished a Canadian tour. "We once gave a concert together," Bernard recalls. "But once was enough--too much work." Mme. Arnault plays a different sort of duet with Bernard; Lacroix believes that often Arnault sees clothing through her eyes. They go shopping together most Saturdays. Where? At the Dior boutique on the Avenue Montaigne...
...most part the cast is excellent and keeps the play moving quickly, garnering a great deal of laughter. The first 15 minutes of the play, however, are dreadfully slow. Georgine Hall, playing Mme. Pernelle, Orgon's mother, barely manages to keep her lines straight as she scolds Orgon's family. Her comic timing is miserable...
...company's founder and artistic director, Ira Siff (a.k.a. Mme. Galupe- Borszkh), was introduced to opera in high school in New York City. "In the beginning, " he says, "it was Callas, Callas, Callas. I slept three nights in the streets to get into her 1965 Tosca at the Met. It was at once thrilling and hilarious, riveting and funny, especially because the performance was so devoid of humor. My giggles have always been appreciative, but once at the old Met I laughed so loud a dowager clobbered me with her program...
Sergei Oblomov (Marcello Mastroianni), a sinister Russian tailor, is Mme, de la Fontaine's long-lost first husband, inexplicably sneaking through the most stylish closets in town until they are reunited. Loren pays homage to the couple's steamy screen history with a reenactment of a striptease she last performed for Mastroianni in 1964. We should all look this good in garters when we're sixty-something...
Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier has fallen on hard times. Following his 1986 flight from Haiti to the French Riviera, he installed his shopaholic wife Michele and their children in a palatial home near Cannes. Two years ago, Mme. Duvalier divorced him, taking the children and a large chunk of the assets. Duvalier quickly ran through his remaining funds -- once estimated at $400 million -- and now lives with his mother Simone, 80, in a scruffy villa with no telephone (cut off for unpaid bills) and a broken wire fence surrounding an unkempt garden. Last week he disappeared for parts unknown...