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...only hint we are given about why Alice might be holding on to both her bumbling fools comes from her interplay with her two women friends. Cynthia (Charlotte de Turckheim), whose job seems to amount to hosing down naked men in a Trouville hospital, marries a weather forecaster who has a nervous breakdown during the wedding ceremony and returns to his ex-wife shortly afterwards. Solange (Dominique Lavanant), a flautist in a not-ready-for-prime-time orchestra, always seems to be stuck in sad love triangles or with married men and constantly worries that she will...
This year's r.t.w.-the initials could as well stand for razzmatazz-to-wacky-produced no bombshells, but a few Roman candles, and squibs aplenty. It also offered something for just about everyone. The influences, as Le Figaro's Hélène de Turckheim noted, could be traced to "the 1940s, the 1950s, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Star Wars, Close Encounters, the army, the church and even the crowning of Bangui's Emperor Bokassa...
...have been an astrologer now for three years. Astrology is a marvelous science and an infallible one, whereas clairvoyance is a gift and arrives at only problematical conclusions. For example, in August 1934, I had taken my son to Turckheim in the Vosges mountains. As I had nothing to do. except for walking, I set up Louis Barthou's horoscope-he was then Foreign Minister. As I was seting it up, I suddenly saw Uranus in the Gemini or 12th House. Why, I said to myself, there has been an attempt upon Barthou's life. As I knew...
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