Word: parise
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Ten years after the Rasputinolution, Anya (Meg Ryan) is 18 and alone. She meets Dimitri (John Cusack), a onetime palace servant with a 10 million-ruble scheme: to take a suitable young woman to Paris, persuade Marie that the girl is Anastasia and pocket the reward money. The usual complications...
DIED. BARON EDMOND DE ROTHSCHILD, 71, banker-benefactor; of emphysema; in Geneva. The scion of the banking dynasty oversaw operations in Paris and Geneva and gave away much of what he made, most often to Israel.
Here again Mortimer borrows a page from the Orwell oeuvre. Down and Out in Paris and London chronicles Orwell's marginal survival for a time among the London poor; Felix, too, temporarily joins the ranks of London's lower classes to escape from the police and to search for Gavin...
Luc Besson, La Femme Nikita (1990). Anne Parillaud is a slinky yet conflicted hitwoman in Paris. Must be seen, if only for the Jean Reno cameo. Sadly, a promising American remake was dragged down by Dermot Mulroney. Skip it.
Bound for Paris in the spring, Watson is now learning how to order at meals in French.