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Nutty, Naughty-Château is a house divided between Director Roger Vadim and Novelist Françoise Sagan. On the framework of Sagan's first play, Château in Sweden, which enjoyed a long run in Paris, Vadim and an associate script carpenter have slapped together a film comedy that deserves to be condemned, and probably will be. It is synthetic, flimsy and obvious. Yet through the cracks in the walls one can still glimpse the work of a wry, precocious playwright who knows how to make decadence amusing...
Friendly Rivals. On the great marshy peninsula of Médoc, the celebrated vines that grow over 200 chalky acres of Château Lafite-Rothschild produce a grand cru that is the pride of Guy, Elie, Alain and Edmond. Next door, at his Château Mouton Rothschild, Philippe wages a battle for oenological equality with his fond cousins and competitors, trying to persuade the French government's wine agency to revise its official 1855 wine classification, which listed Mouton slightly below Lafite. Philippe has commissioned, among others, Cocteau, Braque, Dali and Lippold to design labels...
...Natural Structure." In 17 years he took out more than 100 patents for new structural materials-but built nothing. Then five years ago, he took Paris Banker Pierre Beckhardt for a drive to show him "a mistake I made when I was young"-the stockbroker's château...
...beer-bibbing Belgians, whose per-capita inflow of 34.3 gallons is the world's highest, who put a foamy head on a disheartening summer. They scheduled a National Beer Festival at the Château de Fraiture in Liège province, but before the guzzling could even get started, the chateau burned down, lock, stock and beer barrels...
...Painter of the King" and for 20 years the absolute arbiter and benevolent tyrant of le bon gout français. Swept into museum storerooms as succeeding generations downgraded 17th century classicism, Le Brun has been rehabilitated this summer in an almost too complete exhibition at the Château de Versailles...