#Laurence Pierre

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Top 5 First-Time Watches of September 2023 1. FRANTZ (2016, dir. François Ozon) 2. SISI & I (2023, dir. Frauke Finsterwalder) 3. EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN (1994, dir. Ang Lee) 4. WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939, dir. William Wyler) 5. BARBIE (2023, dir. Greta Gerwig)

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Muriel, or the Time of Return (Muriel, ou le Temps d'un retour) (Muriel) (1963) Alain Resnais

July 8th 2023

[mariocki]

Man in a Suitcase: Night Flight to Andorra (1.30, ITC, 1968)

"You know we're not in this for kicks by now, don't you?"

"I heard a story about Buck, whoever Buck might be, something about taking me behind the sheds and murdering me."

"Ha. Well, old Buck watches a lot of TV, ma'am."

[randomrichards]

THE SUITOR:

A hapless rich nerd

Attempts to get a girlfriend

Slapstick disaster

[hotvintagepoll]

Congrats to the ultimate winner of the Hot & Vintage Movie Men Tournament, Mr. Toshiro Mifune! May he live happily and well where the sun always shines, enjoying the glories of a battle hard fought.

A loving farewell to all of our previous contestants, who are now banished to the shadow realm and all its dark joys and whispered horrors—I hear there's a picnic on the village green today. If you want to remember the fallen heroes, you can find them all beneath the cut.

What happens next? I'll be taking a break of two weeks to rest from this and prep for the Hot & Vintage Ladies Tournament. I'll still be around but only minimally, posting a few last odes to the hot men before transitioning into a little early ladies content, just like I did with this last tournament. The submission form for the Hot & Vintage Ladies tournament will remain up for one more week (closing February 21st), so get your submissions in for that asap! Once the form closes, there will be one more week of break. The first round of the Hot & Vintage Ladies Tournament will be posted on February 29th, as Leap Year Day seems like a fitting allusion to leaping into these ladies' arms.

Thanks for being here! Enjoy the two weeks off, and send me some great propaganda.

In order of the last round they survived—

ROUND ONE HOTTIES:

Richard Burton

Tony Curtis

Red Skelton

Keir Dullea

Jack Lemmon

Kirk Douglas

Marcello Mastroianni

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Robert Wagner

James Garner

James Coburn

Rex Harrison

George Chakiris

Dean Martin

Sean Connery

Tab Hunter

Howard Keel

James Mason

Steve McQueen

George Peppard

Elvis Presley

Rudolph Valentino

Joseph Schildkraut

Ray Milland

Claude Rains

John Wayne

William Holden

Douglas Fairbanks Sr.

Harold Lloyd

Charlie Chaplin

John Gilbert

Ramon Novarro

Slim Thompson

John Barrymore

Edward G. Robinson

William Powell

Leslie Howard

Peter Lawford

Mel Ferrer

Joseph Cotten

Keye Luke

Ivan Mosjoukine

Spencer Tracy

Felix Bressart

Ronald Reagan (here to be dunked on)

Peter Lorre

Bob Hope

Paul Muni

Cornel Wilde

John Garfield

Cantinflas

Henry Fonda

Robert Mitchum

Van Johnson

José Ferrer

Robert Preston

Jack Benny

Fredric March

Gene Autry

Alec Guinness

Fayard Nicholas

Ray Bolger

Orson Welles

Mickey Rooney

Glenn Ford

James Cagney

ROUND TWO SWOONERS:

Dick Van Dyke

James Edwards

Sammy Davis Jr.

Alain Delon

Peter O'Toole

Robert Redford

Charlton Heston

Cesar Romero

Noble Johnson

Lex Barker

David Niven

Robert Earl Jones

Turhan Bey

Bela Lugosi

Donald O'Connor

Carman Newsome

Oscar Micheaux

Benson Fong

Clint Eastwood

Sabu Dastagir

Rex Ingram

Burt Lancaster

Paul Newman

Montgomery Clift

Fred Astaire

Boris Karloff

Gilbert Roland

Peter Cushing

Frank Sinatra

Harold Nicholas

Guy Madison

Danny Kaye

John Carradine

Ricardo Montalbán

Bing Crosby

ROUND THREE SMOKESHOWS:

Marlon Brando

Anthony Perkins

Michael Redgrave

Gary Cooper

Conrad Veidt

Ronald Colman

Rock Hudson

Basil Rathbone

Laurence Olivier

Christopher Plummer

Johnny Weismuller

Clark Gable

Fernando Lamas

Errol Flynn

Tyrone Power

Humphrey Bogart

ROUND 4 STUNGUNS:

James Dean

Cary Grant

Gregory Peck

Sessue Hayakawa

Harry Belafonte

James Stewart

Gene Kelly

Peter Falk

QUARTERFINALIST VOLCANIC TOWERS OF LUST:

Jeremy Brett

Vincent Price

James Shigeta

Buster Keaton

SEMIFINALIST SUPERMEN:

Omar Sharif

Paul Robeson

FINALIST FANTASIES:

Sidney Poitier

Toshiro Mifune

and ok, sure, here's the shadow-bracket-style winner's portrait of Toshiro Mifune.

[markwatnae]

Masterpost of Hot Old Man Round 1 Polls

Paul Newman v Richard Burton

Omar Sharif v Tony Curtis

Red Skelton v Burt Lancaster

Christopher Plummer v Keir Dullea

Anthony Perkins vJack Lemmon

Kirk Douglas v Alain Delon

James Dean v Marcello Mastroianni

Harry Belafonte v Jean-Pierre Cassel

Marlon Brando v Robert Wagner

Sammy Davis Jr. v James Garner

James Coburn v Rock Hudson

Peter Cushing v Rex Harrison

George Chakiris v Sidney Poitier

Dean Martin v Sean Connery v Jeremy Brett

Tab Hunter v Toshiro Mifune

Howard Keel v Peter O'Toole

Robert Redford v James Mason

Steve McQueen v Charlton Heston

Dick Van Dyke v George Peppard

Elvis Presley v Peter Falk

Oscar Micheaux v Rudolph Valentino

Joseph Schildkraut v Buster Keaton

Jimmy Stewart v Ray Milland

Cary Grant v Claude Rains

John Wayne v Errol Flynn

Clint Eastwood v William Holden

Douglas Fairbanks Sr. v Sessue Hayakawa

Carman Newsome v Harold Lloyd

Noble Johnson v Charlie Chaplin

John Gilbert v Conrad Veidt

Ramon Novarro v Robert Earl Jones

Slim Thompson v Gary Cooper

John Barrymore v Paul Robeson

Edward G. Robinson v Clark Gable

Humphrey Bogart v William Powell

Leslie Howard v Ronald Colman

Peter Lawford v Vincent Price

Harold Nicholas v Mel Ferrer

Joseph Cotten v Danny Kaye

John Carradine v Keye Luke

Ivan Mosjoukine v Gilbert Roland

Benson Fong v Spencer Tracy

Guy Madison v Felix Bressart

James Shigeta v Ronald Reagan

Montgomery Clift v Ricardo Montalbon

Peter Lorre v Frank Sinatra

Bob Hope v Gregory Peck

Fred Astaire v Paul Muni

Bela Lugosi v Cornel Wilde

Cesar Romero v John Garfield

Basil Rathbone v Cantinflas

Henry Fonda v Turhan Bey

Boris Karloff v Robert Mitchum

David Niven v Van Johnson

Gene Kelly v José Ferrer

Robert Preston v Tyrone Power

Jack Benny v Donald O'Connor

Fredric March v Lex Barker

Michael Redgrave v Gene Autry

James Edwards v Alec Guinness

Fayard Nicholas v Fernando Lamas

Ray Bolger v Johnny Weismuller

Orson Welles v Sabu Dastigir

Mickey Rooney v Laurence Olivier

Rex Ingram v Glenn Ford

Bing Crosby v James Cagney

@hotvintagepoll

[napoleonic-sexyman-tournament]

The updated list of nominees so far:

France:

Jean Lannes

Josephine de Beauharnais

Thérésa Tallien

Jean-Andoche Junot

Joseph Fouché

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Joachim Murat

Michel Ney

Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (Charles XIV of Sweden)

Louis-Francois Lejeune

Pierre Jacques Étienne Cambrinne

Napoleon I

Marshal Louis-Gabriel Suchet

Jacques de Trobriand

Jean de dieu soult.

François-Étienne-Christophe Kellermann

Louis Davout

Pauline Bonaparte, Duchess of Guastalla

Eugène de Beauharnais

Jean-Baptiste Bessières

Antoine-Jean Gros

Jérôme Bonaparte

Andre Masséna

England:

Richard Sharpe (The Sharpe Series)

Tom Pullings (Master and Commander)

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Jonathan Strange (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell)

Captain Jack Aubrey (Aubrey/Maturin books)

Horatio Hornblower (the Hornblower Books)

William Laurence (The Temeraire Series)

Austria:

Klemens von Metternich

Friedrich Bianchi, Duke of Casalanza

Franz I/II

Archduke Karl

Marie Louise

Poland:

Wincenty Krasiński

Józef Antoni Poniatowski

Józef Zajączek

Maria Walewska

Russia:

Alexander I Pavlovich

Alexander Andreevich Durov

Prince Andrei (War and Peace)

Pyotr Bagration

Mikhail Miloradovich

Levin August von Bennigsen

Prussia:

Louise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Gebard von Blücher

Carl von Clausewitz

Frederick William III

Gerhard von Scharnhorst

Louis Ferdinand of Prussia

Friederike of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

The Netherlands:

Ida St Elme

Wiliam, Prince of Orange

The Papal States:

Pius VII

[milksockets]

'midnight leotard as an evening gown: a pierre cardin bodysuit in a white latex seersucker weighing 100 grams, 1958' in pants: a history afoot - laurence benaïm (2001)

[princesssarisa]

Opera on YouTube 5

Nabucco

Teatro alla Scala, 1987 (Renato Bruson, Ghena Dimitrova; conducted by Riccardo Muti; no subtitles)

Teatro di San Carlo, 1997 (Renato Bruson, Lauren Flanigan; conducted by Paolo Carognani; no subtitles)

Ankara State Opera, 2006 (Eralp Kıyıcı, Nilgün Akkerman; conducted by Sunay Muratov; no subtitles)

St. Margarethen Opera Festival, 2007 (Igor Morosow, Gabriella Morigi; conducted by Ernst Märzendorfer; English subtitles)

Rome Opera, 2011 (Leo Nucci, Csilla Boross; conducted by Riccardo Muti; English and German subtitles)

Teatro Comunale di Bologna, 2013 (Vladimir Stoyanov, Anna Pirozzi; conducted by Michele Mariotti; Italian subtitles)

Rome Opera, 2013 (Luca Salsi, Tatiana Serjan; conducted by Riccardo Muti; no subtitles)

Gran Teatro Nacional, Perú, 2015 (Giuseppe Altomare, Rachele Stanisci; conducted by Fernando Valcárcel; Spanish subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 2017 (Plácido Domingo, Liudmyla Monastyrska; conducted by James Levine; Spanish subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 2017 (George Gagnidze, Susanna Branchini; conducted by Daniel Oren; English subtitles)

La Cenerentola (Cinderella)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1981 (Frederica von Stade, Francisco Araiza, Paolo Montarsolo; conducted by Claudio Abbado; English subtitles)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1983 (Kathleen Kuhlmann, Laurence Dale, Claudio Desderi; conducted by Donato Renzetti; no subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 1988 (Ann Murray, Francisco Araiza, Walter Berry; conducted by Riccardo Chailly; English subtitles)

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, 1991 (Lucia Valentini-Terrani, Toshiro Gorobe, Domenico Trimarchi; conducted by Antonello Allemandi; Japanese subtitles) – Act I, Act II

Houston Grand Opera, 1995 (Cecilia Bartoli, Raúl Giménez, Enzo Dara; conducted by Bruno Campanella; no subtitles)

Rossini Opera Festival, 2000 (Sonia Ganassi, Juan Diego Flórez, Bruno Praticó; conducted by Carlo Rizzi; Italian subtitles)

Gran Teatre del Liceu, 2008 (Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez, Bruno de Simone; conducted by Patrick Summers; German subtitles)

Romeo Opera, 2015 (Serena Malfi, Juan Francisco Gatell, Alessandro Corbelli; conducted by Alejo Pérez; Italian and English subtitles)

Lille Opera, 2016 (Emily Fons, Taylor Stayton, Renato Girolami; conducted by Yves Parmentier; English subtitles)

Boboli Gardens, Florence, 2020 (Svetlina Stoyanova, Josh Lovell, Daniel Miroslaw; conducted by Sándor Károlyi; no subtitles)

Lucia di Lammermoor

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, 1967 (Renata Scotto, Carlo Bergonzi; conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; English subtitles)

Mario Lanfranchi film, 1971 (Anna Moffo, Lajos Kosma; conducted by Carlo Felice Cillario; English subtitles)

Bregenz Festival, 1982 (Katia Ricciarelli, José Carreras; conducted by Lamberto Gardelli; no subtitles) – Part I, Part II

Opera Australia, 1986 (Joan Sutherland, Richard Greager; conducted by Richard Bonynge; English subtitles)

Teatro Carlo Felice, 2003 (Stefania Bonfadelli, Marcelo Álvarez; conducted by Patrick Fournillier; Japanese subtitles)

San Francisco Opera, 2009 (Natalie Dessay, Giuseppe Filianoti; conducted by Jean-Yves Ossonce; English subtitles)

Amarillo Opera, 2013 (Hanan Alattar, Eric Barry; conducted by Michael Ching; English subtitles)

Gran Teatre del Liceu, 2015 (Elena Mosuc, Juan Diego Flórez; conducted by Marco Armiliato; French subtitles)

Teatro Real de Madrid, 2018 (Lisette Oropesa, Javier Camerana; conducted by Daniel Oren; English subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2022 (Lisette Oropesa, Benjamin Bernheim; conducted by Evelino Pidó; English subtitles)

Il Trovatore

Claudio Fino studio film, 1957 (Mario del Monaco, Leyla Gencer, Fedora Barbieri, Ettore Bastianini; conducted by Fernando Previtali; English subtitles)

Wolfgang Nagel studio film, 1975 (Franco Bonisolli, Raina Kabaivanska, Viorica Cortez, Giorgio Zancanaro; conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; Japanese subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 1978 (Plácido Domingo, Raina Kabaivanska, Fiorenza Cossotto, Piero Cappuccilli; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; no subtitles)

Opera Australia, 1983 (Kenneth Collins, Joan Sutherland, Lauris Elms, Jonathan Summers; conducted by Richard Bonynge, English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1988 (Luciano Pavarotti, Eva Marton, Dolora Zajick, Sherrill Milnes; conducted by James Levine; no subtitles)

Bavarian State Opera, 2013 (Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros, Elena Manistinta, Alexey Markov; conducted by Paolo Carignani; English subtitles)

Temporada Lirica a Coruña, 2015 (Gregory Kunde, Angela Meade, Marianne Cornetti, Juan Jesús Rodriguez; conducted by Keri-Lynn Wilson; no subtitles)

Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liége, 2018 (Fabio Sartori, Yolanda Auyanet, Violeta Urmana, Mario Cassi; conducted by Daniel Oren; French subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 2019 (Yusif Eyvazov, Anna Netrebko, Dolora Zajick, Luca Salsi; conducted by Pier Giorgio Morandi; German subtitles)

Teatro Verdi di Pisa, 2021 (Murat Karahan, Carolina López Moreno, Victória Pitts, Cesar Méndez; conducted by Marco Guidarini; no subtitles)

[the-martyrfication-of-the-matron]

RIP OG pinned post, Sept.8.21 - April.4.24

anyways

Greetings and salutations, broskis and bambis

I'm Evan... or Martyr, or Sacha, or literally anything you want to call me, i dont care... My pronouns are whatever you want them to be, and whilst most people apparently picture me as a non-physical entity, my pfp is of me (hi)

(I'm also British, which i feel like i need to state bc people ask about it a lot lol)

I like Aphverse, IASIP, Desperate Housewives, True Blood, House, TMA and 9-1-1

General DNI: Racists, Fascists, Homophobes, Transphobes, Sexists, and so forth.

(^ will expand upon eventually)

I am rewriting the entire Aphverse, as well as writing fics and such for it, so here's a quick forewarning b4 the links:

Most of my fics and posts should be read with the knowledge that i am an enjoyer of darker fiction, namely that which centres upon cannibalism. this does present itself in the things i write. My fics are not endorsement, but if you ever think that i am presenting these themes in an inappropriate way, please let me know. That said, I am not a 'pro-shipper', that's not material i like to read/write/see, so i would request that accounts that post this material please block me :)

My rewrite fics: -- Amaranth (my first attempt at an MCD rewrite, 49/50 chapters, S1 only) -- Lycoris Radiata (my second attempt at an MCD rewrite, 2 chapters so far)

My other fics and oneshots: (You can request smutshots on this google form: Here, but it's currently closed) -- None so far

My Pinterest boards:

- OCs:

— The Fuckers of St. Pierre

- Aphverse:

— Avra

— Aaron

— Garroth

— Laurence

— Dante

— Zane

— Judgement

[eppysboys]

Peter Bourne (works as Bette Bourne) and Brian Epstein

Peter was twenty-three, homosexual and a rising actor. Brian admired his Pierre Cardin suits and ties and his articulacy. Immediately Brian ‘quietly and shyly’ confessed that more than anything he wanted to be an actor. He told Peter that he had left R.A.D.A unsuccessfully. ‘I said, “Well, be an actor! Look, you’ve got all this money, you can make a choice. Change your name and go into rep!”

...

Brian went several nights to the theatre to develop his friendship with Peter Bourne. They visited restaurants after the show, and Brian introduced him to his friends in the pop scene: Cilla Black and Peter Noone. ‘It was wonderful to be met at the theatre by a Bentley, impressing all these actors,’ says Bourne.

Epstein was, says Bourne, ‘very afraid of being gay. I hadn’t come out yet, and in the seventies I got involved with the Gay Liberation thing. But in those days, it was very discreet and quiet. There were plenty of bars and all the gays were having a good time; I was quite happy about it. I loved the gay world. But Brian was very frightened. He was very sort of discreet about it. At that point everybody was made to feel there was something wrong with being gay.’

Brian sometimes visisted Peter’s home in Gloucester Terrace, but he also trusted him sufficiently to give him a key to his Knightsbridge flat. There, a surly John Lennon suspected Bourne’s role as a new boyfriend of Brian when he already had one. ‘I think John approved of the other boy and I was somebody strange and new.’ Brian, says Bourne, ‘absolutely worshipped John Lennon.’

‘I used to put on a really posh accent in those days to get into the theatre. John didn’t like that at all. Ringo was always very socialable. I think I was very much the pretty boy of the moment, probably one of several people. Brian had a very beautiful American boyfriend and they’d been having a row. I think I was unconsciously being used as the usurper, in a way.’

Brian and Peter’s conversations often swung round to the theatre. ‘I felt sorry for him because he was so frustrated in acting. He thought it was silly I should try to persuade him to continue in the theatre. I told him Laurence Olivier got chucked out of Central School of Drama and Rex Harrison too.’

...

Talking of their relationship, he says: ‘The sexual thing was practically nil. I liked him very much and tried to discuss some things with him. He wouldn’t. He was afraid. I don’t think he knew himself. He’d gone up a road that in a way he regretted. In spite of all his money and all his power, the Beatles got the adulation. He got the fame, he got the money, the extras, the frills, but he never really got what he wanted.’ That, says Bourne, was ‘to be there, on the stage, in the limelight.’

...

‘The pressure of of being gay in those years was enormous. Particularly for him. As well as delighting him, the situation he was in alarmed him. He couldn’t afford, for instance, to have a feminine image of any kind, any indiscretion like that. Because the rock world image was so heavily butch and male in those years. Even in the theatre, if there was any indication from the stage that I was gay, I wouldn’t have got the job, wouldn’t be in work. Brian knew all this, instictively, as far as his role was concerned.’

‘Being gay obviously made him very lonely because he couldn’t discuss it with his closest friends. They all knew. They were okay about it: “Well, Brian is gay and that’s it.” But they didn’t want to know anything about that, really. I got the impression he didn’t talk to people intimately very much. Lennon was probably the only one.’

After two months of keen friendship, exchanging Christmas gifts, going to the theatre, dinner dates and parties together, Brian and Peter agreed to split. ‘It was probably clear to him that I wanted more intimacy, wanted to be more intense and more real, perhaps. I wasn’t his type. That was really the truth. I was a bit upset: he asked me for the keys back so I suppose he ended it.’ The self-effacing Bourne looks back on himself during that period as ‘an incredibly superficial, vain young man who liked all the perks in life.’ He does not regard himself as having been important in Epstein’s life, but he enjoyed being taken to restaurants like the White Elephant in Curzon Street, Mayfair, where Brian was able to nod at Peter O’Toole and Sian Phillips on the next table...

‘He wanted to know about my world, things to do with Shakespeare, Shaw, Chekhov, which he thought was real theatre. I was in the real theatre, appearing with classical actors. He wanted a piece of that. It could be that I was as close as he was likely to get. Now I’m older I can see exactly what his trip was. It certainly wasn’t me. I know what he was into. I didn’t want to look at it then. It wasn’t what I was coming up on. He liked me but when it was time to go I had to give the key back. And that was that. And we both knew.

‘I think he had a lot of self-hatred. I think it was connected with being Jewish. A lot of Jewish gays I’ve met since then have told me the conflict is incredible, trying to be Jewish and trying to be gay and trying to make things work. But Brian didn’t have the advantage of latter-day Jews who were able to talk about it and adjust. He was totally locked in his cell. Nobody was talking about the social problems, as we did during the seventies. This was the early 1960s, and it must have been incredibly stifling.’ 

(Brian Epstein: The Man Who Made The Beatles by Ray Coleman)

Bonus: 

Bette Bourne talking about Polari Bette Bourne ‘on older queens in the 1950s’ Bette Bourne: It Goes With The Shoes Trailer

[wicked-chocolatine]

French National Assembly voted for abortion rights to be written in and protected by the Constitution.

337 voted for it. 32 voted against it. 18 didn't vote.

Now it will go to the Senate, then the National Assembly again.

In the mean time, French folks here is the list of the 32 député-e-s than voted against :

Bénédicte Auzanot (RN)

Philippe Ballard (RN)

Christophe Barthès (RN)

Christophe Bentz (RN)

Emmanuel Blairy (RN)

Frédéric Boccaletti (RN)

Roger Chudeau (RN)

Caroline Colombier (RN)

Géraldine Grangier (RN)

Marine Hamelet (RN)

Hervé de Lépinau (RN)

Frank Giletti (RN)

Laure Lavalette (RN)

Marie-France Lorho (RN)

Nicolas Meizonnet (RN)

Pierre Meurin (RN)

Lisette Pollet (RN)

Stéphane Rambaud (RN)

Angélique Ranc (RN)

Julien Rancoule (RN)

Laurence Robert-Dehault (RN)

Béatrice Roullaud (RN)

Emeric Salmon (RN)

Anne-Laure Blin (LR)

Xavier Breton (LR)

Josiane Corneloup (LR)

Philippe Gosselin (LR)

Patrick Hetzel (LR)

Marc Le Fur (LR)

Jérôme Nury (LR)

Nathalie Bassire (Libertés, indépendants, outre-mer et territoires)

Emmanuelle Ménard (Non Inscrite)

And the source.

[tina-aumont]

Article published in February 2001 "Oh La" number 127 about Jean-Pierre Aumont funeral that was celebrated the 6th February 2001 in French church of Saint-Roch.

Among the guests there were Tina Aumont, her half brothers Jean-Claude and Patrick Aumont, her step-mum Marisa Pavan, her uncle François Villiers, her cousin Aruna Villiers, French actor Alain Delon (pictured with Tina and behind her a close friend of hers, Patrick Gunter), singer, actress and AIDS activist Line Renaud (pictured with Tina Aumont), actress and dancer Leslie Caron, film and stage actor and director Pierre Mondy, actress Nicole Courcel and actor Daniel Ceccaldi with his wife Laurence are some of the people pictured in this magazine.

Very special thanks to @74paris for sending me this article.

[haveyoureadthiscomic-poll]

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Voici l’histoire d’un joaillier, qui allait à une importante foire commerciale, afin d’y acquérir les plus beaux diamants du monde.

Les plus grands joailliers de la planète s’y retrouvaient, de même que le plus grand voleur, qui convoitait lui aussi, les mêmes pierres précieuses. Notre joaillier acheta le plus pur, le plus éblouissant et le plus gros des diamants. Fier de son acquisition, quelques heures plus tard, il rentra chez lui en train. Cependant, le célèbre voleur avait tout vu et comptait bien lui dérober la magnifique pierre précieuse sur le chemin du retour. C’est pourquoi il prit le même train que le joaillier. Après 2 jours de voyage, notre artisan arriva à destination et descendit du train. Le voleur, qui le suivait toujours, le rejoint et lui dit : « Monsieur, je suis un des meilleurs voleurs de diamants au monde ! Je sais que vous avez acheté une pièce aussi rare que sublime! J’ai utilisé toutes mes stratégies, tous mes tours, pour vous le prendre et je n’ai pas réussi. Dites-moi, au moins, pour ma curiosité, où l’avez-vous caché ? Le joaillier répondit je savais que vous étiez un voleur, je vous avais repéré! Lorsque j’ai compris votre intention, j’ai caché le fameux diamant à l’endroit le plus sûr possible à l’endroit où j’étais certain que vous ne le trouviez pas! Ha bon, alors où ? demanda le voleur. Le joaillier mis sa main dans la poche du brigand et en retira le précieux diamant. J’étais certain que vous n’alliez pas regarder là. Voyez-vous, cette allégorie, est une invitation à regarder au bon endroit, si vous voulez découvrir l’éblouissant trésor que vous êtes! Il n’y a rien à trouver à l’extérieur, car le trésor c’est vous. Pas ce que vous croyez être! Mais ce que vous êtes vraiment, au-delà de vos croyances ou conception de vous-mêmes. C’est une invitation à découvrir la radieuse beauté, de qui vous êtes vraiment, Vous. Le véritable bonheur a été caché à l’endroit où les hommes ne pensent pas regarder. La source éternelle et inépuisable du bonheur n’est pas en vous, c’est VOUS !Auteur inconnu laurence Simmonet

[fashionbooksmilano]

Yves Saint Laurent at Home

Life with Yves and Pierre

Jacques Grange,  Laurence Benaïm

Photographs by Marianne Haas

Assouline, New York  2022, 240 pages, over 200 illustrations,  24.8 x 3.1cm,    Silk Hardcover,  ISBN: 9781649801234

euro 95,00

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Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé were worldbuilders of an unparalleled caliber; true tastemakers who approached each interior project with imagination and rigeur, crafting grand spaces infused with personality and provenance. Connoisseurs in every sense of the word with a deep knowledge and appreciation for art and interior design, the two built and lived among a spectacular and carefully-considered collection. In close collaboration with world-class designer Jacques Grange, they crafted private spaces full of wonder and enchantment.Readers are invited to discover the couple’s savoir-faire through the most exquisite photographs of the interiors and gardens of Yves’s Château Gabriel, the dacha in Deauville; the Villa Majorelle in Marrakech; the apartment on rue de Babylone and his maison de couture on avenue Marceau. With photographs by Marianne Haas, and texts and special contributions from Jacques Grange, Catherine Deneuve, Betty Catroux, Laurence Benaïm, Louis Benech and other members of Yves’ tribe, the creative couple’s legacy lives on.

26/12/22

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