Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moreau hates the cold, so she decided to do a ski-fashion layout as a photographic comic book, shot in a studio. She commissioned Playwright Françoise Dorin to write the scenario and got Actor Jean-Louis Trintignant and Actress Nathalie Delon (Alain's ex) to ham it up while modeling the necessary ski clothes. To caption 21 displays of Christmas-gift ideas, Moreau wrote poetry, which is reproduced in her own handwriting and reveals a whimsical side of the serious seductress...
...explaining to Jean-Claude Killy's manager, the man responsible for the Friday night show, what type of crowd I expected to get and made recommendations, as a variety of films were available. I anticipated an audience comprised mostly of students who would have a thorough knowledge of skiing, and an extreme sensitivity to commercialization. With these facts in mind, the films were specially picked out for us. Killy's man behind the scenes described the films as running 45 minutes each in length, and of such high quality that he felt them better than the beautiful Summit Films Production...
...think Ann Black, a panel member and ex-U. S. National Team skier, expressed the feeling of most of the audience in asking Killy, "Does this film accurately represent what you feel skiing is all about Is this being one with nature?" It is frightening and depressing to learn that so many people, and I am sorry to have to include Killy here, think this is so. I have successfully managed to ignore the reality of this attitude in the past, and hope it does not take me long to forget about in the future, for I love the sport...
...ski resort of Aspen, Colo., is getting so spoiled by runaway commercialism that Author Hunter Thompson (Hell's Angels), who calls himself "a foul-mouthed outlaw journalist," figured that a shrill anti-progress campaign might just get him elected sheriff of Pitkin County. "Sod the streets, ban autos!" he cried. "Savagely harass land rapists!" By describing the job as "main pig," the shaved-skull exponent of "freak power" put off the conservative electorate, but the ecology issue is so big in Aspen that according to unofficial tabulations, Thompson lost by only 455 votes...
...Concept. It will take months to untangle the finances of the nonrock festival. The promoters reportedly sold 30,000 tickets at $20 each. The ski-resort owners, Herman and Louis Zemel, broke with the promoters, a group of 15 men headed by Joseph Middleton of Atlanta and incorporated as Middleton Arts International. The Zemels accused the organizers of planning to provoke violence at the festival and then to profit by filming the disorder. The Zemels said they had some $60,000 of the ticket money put away in escrow...