Word: rard
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...first Haitian to become a Roman Catholic priest in the U.S., Gérard Jean-Juste, 62, led the Miami-based Haitian Refugee Center in the 1970s to promote the rights of the country's immigrants. His efforts enabled Haitians to apply for political asylum, an option that had often been closed to them...
...Public Enemy Number One, Part 1 Directed by Jean-Francois Richet. Screenplay by Abdel Raouf Dafri, from the book L'Instinct de mort by Jacques Mesrine. With Vincent Cassel, Cécile de France, Gérard Depardieu, Roy Dupuis. From France...
...most expensive French film ever, with a massive release on 6,000 screens across Europe. It stars French cinema royalty Alain Delon and Gérard Depardieu as well as sports icons like soccer god Zinédine Zidane, basketball wizard Tony Parker and motor-racing legend Michael Schumacher. But the undisputed star of the show is the feisty, moustachioed comic strip hero upon whose adventures the movie is based: Asterix...
What those foreigners are missing is that French culture is surprisingly lively. Its movies are getting more imaginative and accessible. Just look at the Taxi films of Luc Besson and Gérard Krawczyk, a rollicking series of Hong Kong-style action comedies; or at such intelligent yet crowd-pleasing works as Cédric Klapisch's L'Auberge Espagnole and Jacques Audiard's The Beat That My Heart Skipped, both hits on the foreign art-house circuit. French novelists are focusing increasingly on the here and now: one of the big books of this year's literary rentr...
Collaboration between art and fashion has a long history. Designers like Coco Chanel and Christian Dior were famously inspired by artists like Jean Cocteau and Christian Bérard. But in the current age of opulence, in which contemporary artworks sell at auction for tens and sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars, the relationship has become even more entwined. Art fairs like Miami Art Basel and the Venice Biennale have emerged as important marketplaces for luxury brands like Gucci, Cartier and Bulgari. A fashion-forward designer like Jacobs works with trailblazing artists like Prince and Japan's Takashi Murakami...