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That was the idea behind Stephanie Wilkinson's recent weekend at the Mirbeau Inn & Spa in the Adirondacks with her college friends Elisabeth and Jennifer. The three traveled separately from Lexington, Va., Rochester, N.Y., and Boston, leaving a total of six children under 7 behind at home. "In our crazy, busy lives, I feel as if we have no real time with our friends," Wilkinson says. "It seems the only way to maintain a friendship is to go away with them...
...mood, what began as a polished Gallic satire of bourgeois sex and morality suddenly becomes inflamed with black Spanish fury. Director Luis Buñuel (The Exterminating Angel, Viridiana) is the powerful talent whose vision dominates this corrosive, meticulously detailed film based on the 1900 novel by Octave Mirbeau. Buñuel resets the story in the 1920s and tips Mirbeau's well-aimed shafts with poison. But in the end, Diary seems inconclusive, a series of vivid sketches only partially held together by Buñuel's enlightened misanthropy...
Anatomical Outlaw. For a while, Bonnard was a flaneur and sketcher of Paris street life. Lithography, with its kinship to line drawing and its inherent limits of only a few undifferentiated colors, was Bonnard's proving ground. He embellished sheet music and illustrated the writings of Verlaine, Octave Mirbeau and Andre Gide. The flat stone's print only confirmed him as an outlaw toward perspective, modeling and rigorous anatomy...
...natural, of course, that deadpanned John Reynolds (Mr. Wayne), a Yankee Attorney hired by the anti-lottery league to smash the racket, should fall in love with coquettish Julie (Ona Munson), Rebel daughter of goateed General Mirbeau (Henry Stephenson), owner of the lottery. When sudden death overtakes the General and promotes his daughter to head of the lottery, Buster Reynolds is confronted with the painful problem of destroying his light-o-love's source of income without losing her affection...
Sacha Guitry's closest friends were the great Impressionist painter Monet and the independent man of letters. Octave Mirbeau. Among managers, Guitry's favorite was Michel Mortier, who produced his successful Le Kwtz. During the run of that play, Mortier learned that Edward VII, incognito in Paris, planned to visit his small theatre. Mortier hung out the Union Jack in preparation. Before the curtain rose, stately white-bearded King Leopold of Belgium unexpectedly appeared, seemed puzzled when the orchestra broke into God Save the King and Mortier, out of his head, jabbered...