Word: gallic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...filming in Paris, the Illinois-born actress finds some risky business in a setting that is more mundane, if no less romantic. This time Allen plays a horticulturist from St. Louis who takes a summer vacation in France and falls in love with a handsome French banker, played by Gallic Heartthrob Thierry Lhermitte, 30. The summer sweethearts make love in a bank vault and a bathtub, among other places. Allen says she speaks "bad French" but seems to have had no problem making herself understood. Looks like this is one time Indiana Jones didn't come to the rescue...
...womanizer is a great subject for farce, and a challenging one for tragedy. What he is not is a suitable subject for sympathy. This film, which turns François Truffaut's delicious 1977 Gallic soufflé into singles' restaurant quiche, suffers centrally from that miscalculation. Producer-Director Blake Edwards, normally a gifted farceur ("10," S.O.B.), turned to a psychologist for help with this screenplay, with predictably shrinking effect on the picture's sense of fun. Edwards' wife Julie Andrews is the doctor who eventually succumbs to Burt Reynolds, essaying the title role. Robbed...
...with Perkins' letter is that it found its way into the French press. At a time when Franco-American relations are already strained over Chad and the pummeling that the French franc has received from the dollar, Perkins' electioneering ploy seemed to be a gratuitous blow to Gallic pride. "Parisians do not cry nightly with eyes bathed in tear gas," sniped Le Quotidien de Paris. "The number of Americans in Paris this August is proof of that...
...little since the first segment of The French Chef went out over the Boston area's WGBH-TV on Feb. 11, 1963. Only this time, as the camera closes in on stockpot and saute pan, cleaver and colander, the mistress of cuisine is not demonstrating the joy of Gallic cooking. Dinner at Julia's, her new 13-part public television series, which will start in October, celebrates American cooking, ingredients and wines with such dishes as poached Alaska salmon, duckburger with wild rice, California fish stew, braised stuffed bottom round of beef, New Orleans crayfish bisque...
...spring again. And look what the Easter bunny has brought all the way from France: Daddy's illegitimate son. Product of a mad moment a decade ago, little Jean-Claude arrives wearing a heavy coat of wistfulness atop his natural Gallic charm. His mother, you see, has died of Segal's syndrome (named after the author of Love Story, in whose calculating and sentimental mind this new imposition first arose), and all that stands between the lad and orphanhood is Bob Beckwith's willingness to do the decent thing by getting his wife and daughters to accept...