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Froggies On the Roam – Journal Entry April 4, 1981

April 4, 2023 – 10:32 am

The froggies arriving in New York’s JFK aeroport led by the publisher Jean Francoise Bizot. Later this week Actuel will celebrate their publication’s existence. I know them through Bernard Zekri, who is thriving for the first time in this city. He has discovered Rap and Break Dancing, traveling up to the Bronx and Harlem and […]

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ROCK STANDS TALL by Peter Nolan Smith

June 13, 2021 – 3:42 am

In August 1984 ACTUEL sent a Californian-born photographer and me to cover the Deauville Film Festival. This was my second journalism gig for the esoteric French magazine and I hoped that writing a good article might open the path to another profession than being a doorman at La Balajo. The Deauville Film Festival was not […]

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Bridges and Typewriters

November 22, 2014 – 6:15 am

In Jan. 1982 a french magazine ACTUEL hired me to work the work at their Paris nightclub, Le Rex. I bid good-bye to New York and flew from JFK to Heathrow with one bag of my best clothing and an Olivetti typewriter. After a brief visit with friends in London, I boarded a train at […]

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