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...years ago, she thought that "I was going to die in obscurity." Reared in rural Calvin Center, Michigan, where she performed in storefront churches, she ventured to Los Angeles and got her first break -- and first name change, to Gaby Lee -- warbling love songs at a faux-Parisian nightclub called the Moulin Rouge. She was later dubbed Abbey Lincoln, after the 16th President, by a manager who quipped, "Old Abe didn't really free the slaves, but maybe...
What the Duvals require is a miracle, the restoration of Olivier, the sunny source of their little universe's gravitational power, and after the passage of a few years, Holland provides them with that astonishment. He appears in the unlikely form of an adolescent Parisian street hustler (Gregoire Colin). But the Duvals, even skeptical Nadine, are not inclined to question him closely. If he is a lie, he is the saving lie they all need, and in the end he does accidentally provide the definitive answer to the mystery that has riven them...
Connoisseurs of musicals know that the story has limitations. The Phantom can sing only one kind of song to Christine: I-adore-you-and-you-ab hor-me. Poor pastel Raoul can never be much more than a Parisian Freddy Eynsford-Hill. And yet -- in the magnificent Lloyd Webber version, the appealing Yeston-Kopit or even the lame Ken Hill -- the story works. The Phantom and Christine sing ) their volcanic sentiments in a plot as spare and potent as legend...
They play out this bizarre affair against a stunningly filmed Parisian backdrop. Godard's experimental film techniques still dazzle 30 years later. Through his camera, the city becomes a dizzying, constantly moving dance of light and shadow. Amazing visual moments abound: he first breathtaking glimpse of Seberg moving blithely down the center of a Paris boulevard, an exhilarating view of the city from the air, the famous closing scene where a back alley is transformed into an infernal stretching corridor. The jazz soundtrack provides striking accompaniment to these images...
...FIRST BLUSH, IT SEEMS AN ODD MARRIAGE: YVES Saint Laurent, the high priest of Parisian chic, selling his financially burdened empire to France's pharmaceuticals and beauty-products company Elf Sanofi, itself a division of the state-owned petrochemical giant Elf Aquitaine. Look again. Elf Sanofi already owns such perfume brands as Oscar de la Renta, Van Cleef & Arpels and a share in Nina Ricci. The addition of YSL will create the world's third largest beauty-products group -- behind France's L'Oreal and Estee Lauder...