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...that level, The Dirtiest Show in Town is surprisingly amusing. The nudes are graceful, handsome and refreshingly unselfconscious. Acting skill is secondary in group enterprises of this sort, but Jeffrey Herman is kinkily personable and quite funny as a gay Jew, and Madeleine le Roux plays a tall blonde lesbian with the icy authority of a lady storm trooper. Playwright Tom Eyen is perhaps the best guide to the underlying seriousness that animates his play even at its silliest and most scandalous: "We're getting the new sexual freedom suddenly, and we don't know how to cope...
...FRANK G. Roux Newark...
Thanks to the Prix Goncourt, Mile, Charles-Roux will certainly reap her own commercial benefits from the book. The Prix Goncourt novel each year makes just about everyone's Christmas shopping list, bringing sudden rewards to the hitherto unrecognized authors that it honors. Though Marcel Proust and Andre Malraux were among past winners, the jury-whose average age is 74-always picks a book that has enough pizazz for the mass reader. With its explicit sexual passages, Oublier Palerme could sell as many as 400,000 copies in France this year, will doubtless be quickly translated into English...
...Proud. As Novelist François Nourissier sees it, one reason that Oublier Palerme won was that Mile. Charles-Roux "comes from a well-known family and had no enemies on the jury." His remark suggests the intrigue that occurs in the demimonde of belles-lettres over the some 1,850 French literary prizes that are awarded each year. Nourissier, himself a former Vogue editor who resigned because Mile. "Charles-Roux was fired, captured this year's less lucrative but prestigious Académic Franchise prize for his Line Histoire Française a nostalgic reverie in which...
...Mile. Charles-Roux, despite her apparent objections to the style and values of the New World, she finds New York "a hundred times more stimulating than Paris." Says she: "As soon as I have the money-and I hope it will be the small fortune that I deserve-I will go right back to New York...