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Roland Dumas had it all. Suave, wealthy and well connected, the silver-haired lawyer, art collector and bon vivant reveled in a life of power and influence. Picasso and Giacometti were his clients. His long list of female conquests included opera singers and models. His best friend was the late Socialist President Francois Mitterrand, who twice named him Foreign Minister and in 1995 appointed him President of the Constitutional Council, roughly equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court, making Dumas France's fifth highest-ranking official. But that charmed life seemed on the verge of imploding last week when two French...
DIED. BEATRICE WOOD, 105, ceramist and bon vivant, whose affairs with early 20th century artists and writers earned her the name "Mama of Dada"; near Ojai, Calif. Wood, who credited her longevity to "chocolate and young men," also inspired the character of Rose in the film Titanic...
...Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde Using court records, newspaper accounts, diaries and other historical documents, writer-director Moises Kaufman re-creates the courtroom battles that destroyed the career (and ultimately the life) of the late-Victorian playwright, wit and homosexual bon vivant. The cleverly stylized history lesson, playing off-Broadway and in San Francisco, is also a poignant study of an artist brought down as much by his own hubris as an intolerant society...
...Versace in mid-life, it turns out, was a tempered bon vivant, a high-glitz homebody. After occasional major bashes, like the New Year's Eve soirees he threw for the past two years in South Beach (where guests included everyone from Calvin Klein to Rosie O'Donnell), he might decamp to a gay club called the Warsaw Ballroom with a small group of friends to watch male dancers perform. But he was known as a quiet purveyor of the scene, a man who avoided drugs and heavy drinking. "I once proposed that we go out," recalls his friend Janie...
...life of the bon vivant is closer to home than you may think. Since the 1960s. Let's Go, Inc. has sent thousands of Harvard students to practically every corner of the globe in search of the best bargains for the shoestring traveler, They may not confront lions, but they have their own share of hair-raising tales to relate...