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Oasis on the Riviera. Dominique, the heroine, is a law student, but essentially a kind of sophisticated Gallic equivalent of a rock-'n'-roller. She smokes incessantly, drinks Scotch methodically and goes to bebop dances at a nightclub called the "Kentucky."' Much of the time she is "bored passionately," and her casual, completely physical love affair with Bertrand, a fellow student, rarely takes the edge off that boredom. Then Bertrand introduces her to his uncle Luc and Dominique decides hopefully: "He's just the kind that seduces little girls like...
...plague and hence, in Author Sagan's Sartrian thinking, respect each other's freedom. Both cherish isolated moments of intense sensation, encountered rather like chance oases in the desert journey of what they regard as life's everyday meaninglessness. After one passionate week on the Riviera stretches into two, Dominique finds that she cannot hand Luc back to his wife in quite the airy way in which she took him. But Luc has not fallen in love, and before novel's end, Dominique has to do the penance she has always detested-the waits...
Foreign Intrigue (Sheldon Reynolds; United Artists) is splendidly foreign, with its excellent color shots of the Riviera, Vienna and Sweden, but it is no more intriguing than a deciphered cryptogram reading "See Europe this year," or "Having a wonderful spy. Wish you were her." TV's Producer-Writer-Director Reynolds has concocted a cloak-and-dagger stew from his TV program of the same name, tossed sleepy-eyed Robert Mitchum into the cauldron and trusted that the simmering will wake him up. It does not. Mitchum yawningly tangles with a Babel of exotic accents, negligently disposes of spies, counterspies...
...society; his sister married David Maxwell Fyfe, who was Home Secretary, and is now Viscount Kilmuir, the present Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, and a member of the Tories' top command. Five years ago Harrison built a villa overlooking the fishing village of Portofino on the Italian Riviera, where Rex fished, swam, sped about in speedboats. But he was always restless there. "I'm not really a country man in the hearty sense," he admits. He has a nervous habit of stroking his long nose, shooting his cuffs by stretching out his arms, and then running his hand...
Britain's rising Cinemactress Diana (A Kid for Two Farthings) Dors, 24, and Hollywood's seasoned (44) Ginger Rogers bumped into each other on the French Riviera at a reception in the Aga Khan's villa near Cannes. There for the annual International Film Festival, the platinum pair looked strikingly sisterly - a tribute to Ginger's durable beauty...