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...doesn't have a straight answer, but she says the graphic scenes didn't faze her. "I felt more naked crying and howling than I did showing my bottom," she explains. Then again, her father did give her an early education in provocation. His infamous 1969 duet with Birkin, "Je T'Aime ... Moi Non Plus," was banned by the Vatican because of its salacious lyrics and feigned orgasms. And in 1984, he recorded "Lemon Incest," a duet in which he and a 13-year-old Charlotte sing that "the love that we will never make together is the most beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charlotte Gainsbourg: On the Mend and Finding Solace in Music | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

French president Nicolas Sarkozy drew heat last month when he suggested that countries should factor happiness into their statistics for growth. After all, Sarkozy campaigned on promises of wealth creation, and rejigging the data to include France's welfare system, famously generous holidays, and je ne sais quoi seems like an easy way to fulfill a promise he is struggling to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Better Measure than GDP | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...certainly wasn’t for Djehutynakt (pronounced ‘Je-hooty-knocked’), the governor of Middle Kingdom Egypt whose luggage for the spiritual world is the focus of “The Secrets of Tomb 10a: Egypt 2000 BC,” on display at the MFA until May 16. With the contents of one particular grave, the show puts the viewer face-to-face (quite literally) with the Egyptians and their dead...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Looking A‘head’ to the Egyptian Afterlife | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

Moving through the blocked-off streets, the sound of the stage blended into the chattering of an outdoor market featuring over 50 food stalls and 200 vendors, according to the Harvard Square Business Association's website. The goods they stocked had a certain je ne sais quoi, a certain flavor of Cambridge inscrutability to them...but then again, Oktoberfest is Cambridge in all its eclectic glory. (Is this how the Square looked every day, 30 years...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang | Title: Oktoberfest Lite | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...would attract the interest of people who bought A. Amazon.com's algorithms result in some astute suggestions; Netflix's suck. If, on the search line, you type in the documentary Joe Louis: For All Time, you'll be directed to the French omnibus film Paris, Je T'Aime. (T'aime is close to time, but the two movies have absolutely nothing in common.) Try The Monster and the Ape, a 1947 serial, and up pops the 2009 animated film Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure. Recognizing that its Cinematch system isn't cutting it, Netflix established a $1 million prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Ways to Fix Netflix | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

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