Word: dreyfus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strange as anything about the 28 minute film is the fact that its producers -Swiss-born Photographer Robert Frank, 35, and Painter Alfred Leslie, 32-financed it ($20,000) largely through Wall Street's Jack Dreyfus (the Dreyfus Fund) and Stock Market Letter Writer Walter Gutman (Shields & Co.). After its recent premiere at the San Francisco Film Festival, Judge Barnaby (Matador) Conrad declared: "I liked it until Kerouac got the 'smart jacks'-what I send my child to bed for doing." But Producers Frank and Leslie, now busily showing the film to distributors, are confident that...
Since the days of the Dreyfus case, one of the perennial features of French government has been l'affaire-that unique combination of intrigue, scandal and politics that seems to come along at times of great political unrest and to suggest the existence of deep, deadly and corrupt forces at work in the body politic. Last week, faithful to this national tradition, President Charles de Gaulle's fledgling Fifth Republic uneasily probed its third*and most fascinating political scandal-I'affaire Mitterrand...
...their annoyance, Tel Aviv newspapers made wry play with the name of Renault's President Pierre Dreyfus. They incorrectly identified him as the grandson of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who 65 years ago this month was arrested in France on trumped-up charges of treason, in what became (with Emile Zola's help) the classic example of anti-Semitism in the French army of the day. Motormaker Dreyfus said that his stand on the Israeli contract was strictly business. In four years Renault has sold only 3,800 cars in Israel. "It is not possible for us to sell...
...that Author Painter chronicles were with Reynaldo Hahn. a talented pianist and composer, and Lucien Daudet. foppish son of the famed novelist Alphonse. From each, Proust tried to extract the unconditional love his mother had given him as a child; in each he was disillusioned. But it was the Dreyfus affair that deglamorized high society for Proust. Jewish on his mother's side, he courageously declared himself a Dreyfusard and helped to circulate the first petition for Dreyfus' release. Ironically, when Dreyfus was finally released, Proust found him as unappealing an ex-martyr as the other socialites...
Stone is a key witness in the imaginary affaire Dujardin, which has for post-World War II France all the moral and political catnip of a Dreyfus case. Dujardin, a member of the French underground, is in jail, has been marked for death as one of the guilty who directed the massacre of a whole French village called Montpelle (which calls to mind France's nonfictional Oradour-Sur-Glane). To the French Left he becomes a martyr, and "Liberez Dujardin" is scrawled on every wall in Paris. Only the evidence of Stone, who is now symbolical of the dead...