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...white flash card held by a teacher, who called out, "Two!" As new cards came up, the teacher chanted the numbers while Kendall acknowledged the exercise with an occasional gurgle. Down the hall, Kendall's four-year-old sister Katie chirped, "Un, deux, trois . . ." mimicking the accent of her Parisian instructor. Elsewhere around Creme de la Creme, 150 other tots and toddlers grappled with art, music, French, math, gym, reading, science and social studies until mothers and fathers in Volvos and BMWs came to pick them up. "There's a lot of competition out there," said Debra, looking ahead...
Although the former Haitian honcho's wealth is apparently not as great, Duvalier and his entourage don't exactly have to travel on the budget plan, either. While the Mitterand government decides what to do with him, Duvalier and his family are currently holed up in a posh Parisian hotel that wants them out. "They're bad for business," said the manager...
...setting is sublime," says Yvonne Deslandres, 63, who spent the past 25 years collecting some 9,000 costumes that form the core of the museum's permanent collection. It is also highly symbolic: the windows, worked neatly into the exhibition space by Kahane, overlook a splendid Parisian landscape where fashion still thrives as it does no place else in the world. Just a short distance away are the couture houses of Saint Laurent, Madame Gres, Givenchy and Dior, which began their spring/summer showings even as Mitterrand was presiding over the museum's official opening. In March, the courtyard...
Subway, Luc Besson's retarded new film about crime and punishment in the Parisian underground, is everything you'd expect from the post-Diva school of French, filmmaking: lettuce-crisp photography, a plot no less difficult to follow than the average Jacobean tragedy, plenty of MTV ear-and-eye candy, a handsome hero, a tongue-in-chic heroine, and beaucoup world-weary supporting characters who walk around with Arc de Triomphe-sized chips on their shoulders...
...movie's rare believable scenes, Alice's Parisian son, left alone while Philippe is in flight, calls her at the hospital in Trouville, first because the stove is broken and then for help on his homework. Realizing she can do nothing for him, Alice breaks down into anguished, frustrated tears. This is the only sign in the film that Alice is at all torn by her two lives. But it still doesn't convey why she's allowing herself to be torn between two complete losers. The movie is completely devoid of psychology...