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...rard and I have corresponded regularly since making acquaintance while we were with the Office of the Secretary to the Staff at SHAPE in Paris five years ago. After service with the French army at SHAPE, Gérard went to Taizé and was ordained in the community. The 20-year-old community has, in my estimation, fostered a basic doctrine of religious understanding which, if carried out by the various religious sects in our world, would do much to bring about a brotherhood of man that could lead to a definite, lasting peace...
...fairly clever, mildly depressing study of France's I-got-it-beat generation. Made for $160,000 by a 27-year-old film critic named Claude Chabrol, the film offers a switch on the story of the city mouse (Jean-Claude Brialy) and the country mouse (Gérard Blain). In this case the city mouse is really a rat. Enrolled in law school, he seldom attends classes, spends his time shacking up with "can't-say-no girls," arranging for abortions, curing one hangover and planning the next. When the country cousin, a nice...
Heart which beats which beats heart which beats which beats . . . no one before Philippe-Gérard was able to capture this sun which comes and goes inside the human clock...
...wildly imagistic liner notes by Poet Louis Aragon celebrate one of the oddest pop hits ever recorded-a French disk titled Heartbeat, featuring Composer Marie Philippe-Gérard and his "cardiac rhythms." One side is devoted to cha cha cha, the other to a Gallic rock 'n' roll. In each case, the rhythm section includes a thumping human heart...
Composer Philippe-Gérard, who wrote the score for the hit movie Rififi, long ago decided that "the truest and most exciting tempo of all might be the human heart." He borrowed a stethoscope, listened to some 50 hearts before he heard just the cardiac sound he wanted: it was thumping in the chest of a 21-year-old Parisian sales girl and model named Nicole Guillenette. What Philippe-Gérard liked about Nicole, he says, is that her heart turned over at a remarkably steady 58 beats to the minute (ideal, in his judgment, for rock...