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...canvases, has had the most spectacular success, now owns a chateau and a Rolls, says "wealth aids my creative spirit; poverty does not necessarily help genius." A painter of contorted, distorted, sad human beings, Buffet is as disillusioned and almost as popular in France as his friend, Novelist Francoise Sagan (see MILESTONES). The opening of his recent retrospective show in Paris, which attracted a total of 40,000 visitors, nearly turned into a riot as his fans mobbed him. Another gallery is now showing seven large Buffet canvases of the life of Joan of Arc. ¶ Georges Mathieu, a shrewd...
Married. Francoise Sagan (real name: Franchise Quoirez), 22, bestselling French novelist (Bonjour Tristesse, A Certain Smile), who has often expressed the belief that young girls should marry men in their 40s; and Guy Schoeller, 42, her publisher, to whom she dedicated her third book (Those Without Shadows); she for the first time, he for the second; in Paris...
Baldly told, without regard to Author Cicellis' luminous sensibility and genuine compassion. Ten Seconds from Now could seem as world-wearily neurasthenic as Françoise Sagan's round-robin tournaments of amour. Dominique loves Nondas who has eyes only for Erne. Diki is engaged to Vangos but pines for Jason who solaces himself with Aemilia. Monarches loves his wife Julia who leaves him for a nameless lover for whom she has waited for 15 years. Danae loves Simos who is too poor to offer marriage but can pay for an abortion. Sentimental Vivi is perhaps poorest...
...France every Thursday night some 2,500,000 people forgo their Sagan, their cinema and other well-known Gallic pastimes to watch a new-style quiz show called Tetes et Jambes, literally "Heads and Legs" but loosely translated "Brains and Brawn." On Brains, the glint of gold is only incidental to the visual gimmicks and the sheer fun of watching the nation's top musclemen come to the aid of the IBMinded. To take home his cut of a $5,600 jackpot, Brain must correctly answer a series of questions spread over four weeks. If he misses, the scene...
...Among other C.N.B. alumni: Walter Howey, model for the managing editor in The Front Page, the play's co-author Charlie MacArthur, and Hildy Johnson, the real-life reporter who was its hero. * No kin to Novelist Francoise Sagan, whose real name is Quoirez...