Word: zouzou
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from one enriching experience to another. From hoopla with Houpflé to Unsinn with Zouzou, from Paris to Lisbon, from an elevator to a marquisate-it is all intended to be good, brisk picaresque, but somehow (perhaps partly because of the turgid English subtitles), it sounds more like bad libretto...
...Pyramids. At police headquarters in Cairo, Zouzou announced that she wanted to be taken to the fashionable Semiramis Hotel. The cops shuddered: the Semiramis was full of tourists loaded with dollars who might not understand about Zouzou in her agitated state of mind. "Look, lady." pleaded a top cop, "you can't go to the Semiramis. Pick any place anywhere in Egypt, in the whole damn world for all we care. But please, please don't say the Semiramis." At 4 a.m. Zouzou capitulated; she would take a suite in a suburban hospital...
...midday the police phone rang. It was Zouzou; she didn't like the hospital. With a groan, the police moved Zouzou to the Mena House, near the Pyramids, and installed her in room 35, the honeymooners' favorite. "At least there are not so many foreigners around," said...
...great stone mansion in Garden City, Safsaf was lonely. He asked to be helped into the Cadillac and driven to Mena House. There he rapped on Zouzou's door, saying, "It's me, Mustafa!" He rapped and rapped, but there was no answer. Sympathetic servants brought the old man a chair, and for another half hour Safsaf sat down and pounded in comfort...
...last Zouzou let him in; family, doctors and lawyers soon followed and a parley ensued. Brokenheartedly, Safsaf promised a divorce, whereupon Zouzou coldly agreed to go back to her gilded cage in Garden City...