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...movie is an adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's visionary fairy tale about a pilot, crash-landed in the Sahara, who confronts his own innocence in the form of a very young man of royalty from a distant planet. The score is by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe-their first collaboration since Camelot in 1960. The music misses the simple, rhapsodic melancholy Saint-Exupéry achieved in his prose, but it excels at capturing the pilot's wistfulness, the Little Prince's spirit and their joy in finding each other...
Difficult Challenge. The story's rather inconsistent mysticism stumbles into sentimentality once or twice, but Donen makes even that seductive. He has made no attempt to mimic Saint-Exupéry's eloquent line drawings. Instead, he has some of them reproduced when the pilot does sketches on a note pad for the Little Prince. It is an act of friendly homage that devotees of the book will like as much as Donen's fidelity to the fragile spirit of the original. He has in fact pulled off a rather difficult challenge. The visual style...
Charles de Gaulle used to enjoy singing La Marseillaise, but French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing apparently does not even like to hear it. "The President of the Republic thinks Ihe familiar version is too rapid, loo chromatic. He just does not like it," says Roger Boutry, professor of harmony at the Paris Music Conservatory. Boutry should know, since he was commissioned by le Président to compose a new version of the national anthem last June. "I have done a new arrangement," explains Boutry, "taken the drums out, changed the rhythm and the harmony, altered...
...first press conference in July, France's President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing fielded questions while standing behind a lectern. At his second conference last week he somberly remained seated, in perhaps unconscious symbolism of the dour words to follow. Sounding like a Spengler with a French accent, for much of the conference he all but prophesied the decline of the West...
Deep Roots. All this was clear to Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, a thoughtful innoivator when he won the presidency May. "Our agricultural history has left the people with deep roots in the land," a top aide said, reflecting the view his chief. "The French can only be satisfied with an urban environment that also green." Giscard soon acted to Paris green...