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...movie lover can own or rent high-quality copies, often with bonus features, there are fewer reasons to leave home to see to them. It's just one more way that Paris - alas - is becoming more like other places. Another threat comes from multiplex chains like UGC, Gaumont and MK2, where patrons pay a yearly fee of just over €200 to attend any film, anytime, at cinemas with refreshments and often stadium-style seating in auditorium-size theaters. It's a great bargain for those who see more than a few films per month, but it fosters an allegiance...
Relic Hunter, starring Wayne's World's Tia Carrere as a female Indiana Jones, is produced by France's Gaumont Television and Canada's Fireworks Entertainment. The opening of the first episode, which aired in September, featured Carrere's bikinied Professor Sydney Fox teaching her students a sexy African dance, followed by a scene in which she talks to her assistant while wearing a tasteful taupe lace bra-and-panty set. "We skate the line of historical frolic," says Carrere, delivering a line she'd never get to say on the show. "What I like is if there are children...
There are several explanations for France's movie mania. The simplest is the deplorable state of French television, which is vastly inferior to that in neighboring countries. "People are fleeing their homes in search of entertainment," says Daniel Toscan du Plantier, president of Gaumont, the country's biggest film conglomerate. "Everyone knows that our television is the most boring in the world. The Socialist government has programmed intellectual talk shows for Saturday night at 8:30. Even Socialist countries in Eastern Europe wouldn't dream of doing that. There would be riots in the streets...
Ossard-Bernart-Gaumont, dir. Jean-Marie Perier...
After that, De Sédouy and Harris were all set to release their picture-except that the country's two principal film distributors, Gaumont and Pathé, reversed an earlier decision and refused to book it. They were afraid, explained one distributor, that the film "would provoke public disorder...