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...music hall, but worked out a rental agreement with an option to buy in two years if all goes well. It certainly should. Says Petit: "Our success is fantastic. Everything I have dreamed of has finally come true." Zizi is pleased, of course, but she is too much the Parisian sophisticate to be overly rhapsodic. Pointing to the set's shimmering black St. Laurent curtains, she says, "If we don't break even, at least I'll have enough material to keep me in black sequined dresses for the rest of my life...
...next evening, MacGowran, now alone, was able with Beckett's music to still even the inimitable rudeness of a Parisian first night. He did it by a bravura demonstration of Beckett's simplest quality, often obscured by reverence for his profundity: namely, that he is another of the great Irish compulsive talkers. There is a necessary element of the barroom cadger in a role like MacGowran's. Suddenly a bony hand grips the listener's forearm, the bleary eye comes close, the words begin...
...heard going on around him exasperated the preconceived views of his European civilization. To contemplate revolutions from the distance of the Parisian Boulevards was quite another matter. Here on the spot it was not possible to dismiss their tragic comedy with the expression, "Quelle farce...
...quite as bad as that, except when Pluche, a 45-year-old Parisian bachelor, is in a period of creative sterility. For a man of Gibraltic self-confidence, however, even sterility has its uses. If Pluche must lie fallow for a few weeks, he can at least write a journal about it. Nothing goes to waste: stinginess is not only close to his Gallic heart; it is a law of nature. Besides, writing gives him the chance to expound on his dearest personal fancies...
...part can." It did. She took parts with a repertory company and caromed around Europe. In Paris, Director Alain Resnais was looking for a young girl to co-star as Yves Montand's adolescent amour in La Guerre Est Finie. Geneviève transferred from the Parisian television screen to the film scene without missing a cue. She appeared opposite Alan Bates and Jean-Paul Belmondo, once as a madwoman, then as a spoiled heiress. The parts pinched a bit, but somehow Geneviève let out the seams and made them star-sized...