Category Archives: france

The Streets Of Paris

November 18, 2011 – 6:09 am

Thirteen years was a long time to stay away from Paris. The city had traded on the grime of the 20th Century for cleansed stones. The streets were avenues of luxury stores. I spent most of the morning searching for a beret. I had no success. Paris might be eternal, however it was not the [...]

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A Little Fish

November 8, 2011 – 6:22 am

The Cote d’Azur stretches along the Mediterranean from Ventimiglia to St. Tropez. The coastline has been populated since the Bronze Age, but the French actress B The Cote d’Azur covers the Mediterranean from Ventimiglia to St. Tropez. The coastline has been populated since the Bronze Age, but the French actress Brigitte Bardot renewed interest in [...]

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Go Civic Go

October 1, 2011 – 2:27 am

In 1982 I drove a VW Golf GTI from Paris to Bruxelles Aeroport. My mission was to pick up Valdmar, a New York DJ. He was going to spin records at the Rex Club for the magazine Actuel. On the way I noticed Benzs and BMWs cruising at 180 KPH or 100 mph and decided [...]

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HISTOIRE DE MELODIE NELSON – Serge Gainsbourg

June 26, 2011 – 1:09 pm

Music sucks in Pattaya. Old farangs sing to HOTEL CALIFORNIA and bar girls dance to boy band love ballads, while Thai bands play dinosaur rock for drunken tourists. Nothing wrong with a bad reprise of SMOKE ON THE WATER, except I once lived in nightclubs and bars in which music meant more than a tune [...]

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Scandal Delon a l’Elysees

May 17, 2011 – 7:31 am

In reality most movie stars are pale shadows of their on-screen characters. The portraitures of murderers, criminals, and assassins are formulated by acting skills instead of life experiences. Alain Delon is not one of those film poseurs. The French leading man spent 11 months in military prison for discipline problems. His connections to the Corsican [...]

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