Parisian Lifestyle & Love…
“Dans.. les pas de..
Marie.. Curie”..
Following..
In the.. footsteps of..
Marie.. Curie..
For an hour and a half.. watching a film-documentary on her life journey..
I was enthralled and in complete awe of this.. amazing woman…
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Greta… Garbo’s…
Mystique…
Magnetism…
Mesmerised me… forever…
I found… her presence…
Enigmatic… electrifying…
Timeless…
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“Play it… Sam…
Play… ‘As Time Goes By’ “…
The sublime “Ilsa” (Ingrid Bergman)… her expressive face… sad, tender, nostalgic… implored her former lover “Rick’s” (Humphrey Bogart) friend and house pianist Sam… to play their special song upon spotting him playing the piano… as she entered the establishment “Rick’s Café Americain”…
“Le tout Paris” and I… were bewitched, enthralled, and mesmerized watching the iconic film “Casablanca” yesterday night…
Magnificent… love…
Dazzling… passion…
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Cannes… Film…
Festival… Is…
“Pour… moi”…
The most… fabulous….
Film festival… in the world….
It is… glamorous…
“Mais… intime”…
None of… the “Mega”…
That is… Hollywood…
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“Twelve… Years…
A… Slave”…
Rather…
Twelve…. shades…
Of… shame…
How…
Did human psyche… dip into the depths of its…. pathological disintegration…
Why…
Was such demeanment… humiliation… and chilling cruelty… inflicted upon fellow humans…
The much praised 2013 period drama… an adaptation of the 1853 memoir by Soloman Northup… “Twelve Years a Slave”… was imposed upon us on the small screen… “la télé”…
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When… young…
Rummaging through much loved books… in an old musty library… I touched on a novel which fascinated me…
It was… “The Sheik”…
Not only did I read the book voraciously… I also watched the film starring… the incomparable “Rudolph Valentino” and Agnes Ayres…
Both left an indelible impression on me…
The novel is about a young British aristocrat… a Lady Diana Mayo… who is kidnapped by a dashing Sheik…
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Venice… Venezia…
The city… of unimaginable beauty…
Floating… on canals…
Bridges… gondolas of love…
Venice… a city…
I adore… beyond belief…
A city… enchanted…
A city… of love…
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“La… Bicyclette Bleue”…
A… historic novel…
By… Régine Deforges…
Made… into…
A trilogy… for the small screen…
We… watched…
Entranced…
At the unfolding of the horrific action taking place… during the German occupation of France in World War II…
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For… a brief…
Interlude…
Coco Chanel… and…
Igor Stravinsky…
Had an… affair…
It was… 1920…
A dangerous… liaison…
Stravinsky… was a married man…
Read moreAudrey… Hepburn’s…
Amazing… eyes…
Were… gazing at me…
With…
That… look…
From the cover… of one of my favourite magazines…
Vanity… Fair…
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