Word: tropez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scant days remained before his concert at the St.-Tropez Festival, and Pianist Byron Janis, 39, was staring straight into the jaws of une véritable débâcle. His new white dinner jacket, a double-breasted poem in paper limned especially for him by Haute Couturier Pierre Cardin, had proved a grabber in the armpits. "Rush me another," pled the pianist. "I have to move my arms...
Exactement! thought Jean-Jacques Lebel, the "pope" of European happen ings. Last week, as part of his Festival of Free Expression, he and his hairy band of happeners staged the show in a blue tent pitched on the outskirts of the seaside resort of St. Tropez...
...performance may not have been exactly what Picasso had in mind, but the audience of 600 found it stimulating, clapped loudly after every scene. As for a much-publicized urination scene -one reason why the mayor of St. Tropez had prohibited the performance in his town-it was, all things considered, a model of discretion: Tart squatted in the middle of the stage while the sound track made appropriate noises. "We had to keep that scene," says Lebel. "We're not at liberty to emasculate a work of art in order to pander to bourgeois sentiment." Still, he would...
Last week he shouted, "Come to me, baby!" through a locked door in a St.-Tropez apartment house. Inside, Isabelle Pons, 24, a sometime model and script girl and his former mistress, told him to go away. Levy fired a shotgun into his belly and died 20 minutes later in the hospital...
Died. Raoul Levy, 44, penny-ante French film producer, who made a mint out of Brigitte Bardot in And God Created Woman, after which the law of averages straightened out; by his own hand (16-gauge shotgun); in Saint-Tropez, France (see SHOW BUSINESS...