Word: passion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Georges. Its star performer is the incredible Zaza, who, when he takes off his dress and wig, is also Albin, Georges's lover for 20 years. Years ago, just to see what all the heterosexual fuss was about, Georges (Gene Barry) spent a few hours of passion with a showgirl. From that brief union came a son, Jean-Michel, who has lived ever since with Georges and Albin (George Hearn) in an apartment next door to La Cage...
...burst her way, then at her passion's height
Agonizingly suspended between his fear of death and his passion for duty, the "chickenhawk" took the conflicts home. When a clerk in Hawaii called him a murderer, he felt that she was talking about someone else. Daily quarts of whisky could not erase the awful memories and their replays. Mason lived in a private, disconnected world that finally crashed in 1981 when he was arrested for and convicted of dope smuggling. "No one [was] more shocked than I," he recalls. Chickenhawk, with its vertical plunge into the thickets of madness, will stun readers as well...
...editorship is to come up with the Big Story. Despite so much interoffice sex that it is a wonder the paper ever comes out, Weinraub's tale sprints to its end as smoothly as a web offset press. Bylines is too gussied up with made-for-television passion and greed to resemble life at a big-city newspaper. The unlikely competition for the naked and dead editor's job does, however, neatly bear out the second rule of journalism: you're only as good as your last story...
...beach serves as the mating ground for both Pauline and Marion. Pauline dabbles a bit with passion by dating (if one can call it that) a young boy Sylvain (Simon de la Brosse) she herself meets on the beach. But most of the romanticism is Marion's. While bathing she runs into an old flame. Pierre (Pascal Gregory) whose heart and body still burns for Marion, who dumped him five years before to get married. But Pierre loves Marion too much, and in his own bumbling, cute way betrays the mystery she's looking for--and finds in the devilishly...