Category Archives: france

Serge Gainsbourg and Whitney Houston 1986

January 23, 2013 – 6:20 am

Serge Gainsbourg was the coolest French musician of the last century. His hip stature reverberates to the present. THE BALLAD OF MELODY NELSON is a 27-minute long gem of a concept LP. His conquests of love were legion. His loves were few. Jane Birkin was his muse for 13 years. After their break-up the drink […]

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CROSSING THE CHANNEL by Peter Nolan Smith

December 27, 2012 – 1:24 am

I had moved away from Boston in 1971, but every Christmas of my adult life had been spent with my family on the South Shore. This streak of thirty-three years was broken in 1985, when n art dealer invited a female French singer and me to his cottage on the Isle of Wight for the […]

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Sylvia Kristel RIP

October 20, 2012 – 1:27 pm

In 1974 Sylvia Kristel became an international sex star thanks to her lead role in the soft-core movie EMMANUELLE. The French film portrayed the actress as the bored housewife” of a French diplomat exploring the frontiers of sex around the world. I saw EMMANUELLE at a packed theater in Boston’s Combat Zone. The movie sold […]

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Corbusier In Camouflage

August 17, 2012 – 2:55 pm

Le Corbusier or Charles-Édouard Jeanneret has been universally recognized as one of pioneers of modern architecture, yet every genius has been undeified as demonstrated by the transformation of the Villa Besnus or “Ker-Ka-Ré” in Vaucresson, France. The villa was built in 1922 in a Paris suburb and le Corbusier incorporated many of his Purist ideals […]

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Enterprise Coming To Earth

April 27, 2012 – 11:09 am

NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-101 was named the Enterprise by President Gerald Ford in response to a letter campaign by Trekkies seeking honor for mankind’s first space ship. STAR TREK fans should have been more patient, because the Enterprise was an experimental craft designed without engines or a thermal heat shield for testing in the […]

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