Word: yvan
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...Polanski as a police inspector with a sideline in proctology; Noemie Lenoir as a chanteuse whom Carter has a dalliance with before suspecting that she's a female impersonator ("I went to second base with a man! It's The Crying Games! I'm Brokeback Carter!"); and actor-director Yvan Attal (My Wife Is an Actress) playing a cab driver who switches from anti-Americanism to pro-Hollywoodism once he becomes embroiled in one of the Lee-Carter chase scenes. "Now I know what it is to be an American," he says as he merrily dodges a car full...
EVER SINCE DESIGNER Phoebe Philo announced her departure from Chloé in January, members of the fashion world have been gripping their metallic Paddington bags in anticipation of who would be her successor. (When Philo left, her design team soldiered on for two seasons under the direction of head designer Yvan Mispelaere, who is leaving to join Gucci.) The Chloé reins now go to Swedish-born, Milan-based Paulo Melim Andersson, 34, formerly design director of the popular Italian label Marni. Melim Andersson has big shoes to fill: under Philo's direction, Chloé became one of fashion's hottest brands, spurring...
...Gill faced a police force trained to deal with gunmen like Fabrikant and L?pine. Police Chief Yvan Delorme told reporters at a press conference last night that the 1989 massacre prompted a swift rewrite of police protocol for apprehending armed suspects...
...evidence - in the case police aided prosecutors to build. For example, transcripts of testimony dated Aug. 20, 1998, supposedly incriminating the men, included references to events that transpired months later. Prosecutors are appealing that ruling, but it still raises serious doubts about the pending trial of accused Erignac assassin Yvan Colonna. Their case against Colonna was built around accusations co-defendants made to police, but have since recanted. The embarrassing reversal followed allegations that security forces tortured suspected gia members during investigations into the 1995 bombings. A book, Place Beauvau: The Hidden Face of the Police, published in early February...
...there is something not quite right about him. He's abrupt, sullen, illiterate--and he cuts the telephone wires, effectively isolating them. An air of undefined menace begins to steal over the group, especially after Odile, for no explicable reason, yields to Yvan. It's a great scene; he closely studies her by the glow of his cigarette lighter because he has never seen a naked woman before...