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Early Halloween

Pamela Anderson was in Paris this week promoting her new reality TV show “Pam: Girl on the Loose”. Her timing was wrong: Halloween is still two six weeks away.
Source (Gabby Babble)

Posted: Thu 18-Sep-08 under People, Events, Oops

Laetitia Casta For Ladies & Gentlemen

I have no idea what the editorial policy of French ladies' magazines is, but I have the impression they're increasingly targeting a male audience. Or maybe I'm wrong, and French women like to watch other women in the nude? Never mind — in the September issue of Elle magazine French actress Laetitia Casta parades in […]

Posted: Tue 16-Sep-08 under People, Created in France

Emmanuelle Béart Does It Again

Five years ago, French women's magazine Elle showed actress Emmanuelle Béart, then aged 40, nude on the front cover. It was the magazine's biggest-selling issue ever. Now they're hoping for a repeat performance with their latest issue:

Click for bigger scans (1pic1day)
At 45, Béart is still stunning (and smoking). And if you can't get enough of […]

Posted: Sun 14-Sep-08 under People

Villain Watch

Swiss watch maker Swatch celebrates the première of the 22nd James Bond Movie Quantum of Solace with a range of 22 watches, dedicated to Bond villains. Three of them were French:

Left to right: Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale, Moonraker, 1979), Dominic Greene (Mathieu Almaric, Quantum of Solace, 2008), and Elektra King (Sophie Marceau, The World Is […]

Posted: Sat 13-Sep-08 under People

Louis Vuitton bags Laetitia Casta

French luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton continues hiring stars to sell their range of suitcases. This time it's French actress Laetitia Casta who poses for Annie Leibovitz. I can't stand the bags, but the photos are nice:

More of the same here

Posted: Wed 10-Sep-08 under People, Created in France

Most controversial French women in history?

In the Times: The 20 most controversial women in history.
Three françaises feature in the list of "top women leaders with reputations for raising hackles":
3. Joan of Arc (c1412-1431)
Obviously a fruitcake, like any number of religious martyrs, Joan was burned by the English, then burned some more and then thrown into the Seine just so […]

Posted: Wed 10-Sep-08 under People, History

Emma de Caunes turns 32

Actress Emma de Caunes (born 9 September 1976, wiki) is the daughter of French actor/director Antoine de Caunes and director graphic designer Gaëlle Royer. De Caunes appeared in various advertisements before landing her first major film role in Sylvie Verheyde's Un Frère. She won Most Promising Actress at the 1998 César awards and Best Actress […]

Posted: Tue 09-Sep-08 under People

What ever happened to Gilles Tréhin?

Neatorama has a great post about 10 Most Fascinating Savants in the World. One of them is young Frenchman Gilles Tréhin.

Since he was 5, Gilles taught himself to draw three dimensional objects. By 12, he started building a city he called "Urville" (after Dumont d'Urville, a French scientific base in the Antarctic). At first […]

Posted: Sat 06-Sep-08 under People, Art & Heritage

How to become Woman of the World

Step 1: be a politician in Colombia
Step 2: ignore all warnings, and venture into rebel country
Step 3: get captured
Step 4: spend 2,321 days in the jungle
Step 5: get released and kissed by Sarkozy
Ingrid Betancourt gets Women's World Awards 2008

Posted: Sat 06-Sep-08 under People, Events, Oops

RIP Alain Jacquet

Alain Jacquet, a French pop artist known for his reinterpretations of famous paintings, has died. He was 69. Jacquet's work often reflected the sensibilities of pop art, which emerged in Britain and the United States in the 1950s and '60s and drew on advertising, comics and other pieces of popular culture.

He also revisited well known […]

Posted: Sat 06-Sep-08 under People, Art & Heritage, Created in France

Who's That Girl?

Hint: she a two-time Academy Award-nominated French film actress and dancer. These days, aged 77, she runs a cheap bed & breakfast south of Paris. Click pic for bigger, click here for bio (wiki).

Posted: Sat 06-Sep-08 under People

Ratzinger's Army

One would expect Pope Benedict to have blind faith in his omnipotent Boss, but the French have more trust in guns and uniforms.

When Joseph Ratzinger comes to Lourdes and Paris later this month he will enjoy the protective cover of an 8,000 strong army. An elite corps of around one hundred people will form […]

Posted: Wed 03-Sep-08 under People, Events

It's Hot Work Being a News Anchor

Claire Chazal is the French veteran news anchor who presents Le Journal during the weekends. Yesterday she appeared in a transparent fuchsia shirt, which showed too clearly that she was wearing a white bra.

One news clip later Chazal was back. Problem solved!

Watch the video | Source (in French)

Posted: Mon 01-Sep-08 under People, Oops

Trout Pout Alert!

I must admit I had never heard of trout pouts, but thanks to the Daily Mail I know better now. Or worse, Trout pout alert: French actress Emmanuelle Beart's over-the-top lip

Left: Beart getting lippy. Right: the 2001 full pout, no trout version
"While the actress has always been blessed with full pouting lips, it seemed as […]

Posted: Sun 31-Aug-08 under People, Oops

What do you get when two failed acts join forces?

Meet Brigitte. Two girls for the price of one. Mayane never got the record deal she deserved. Sylvie never broke through with Vendetta. And then they met:

A blonde asked a brunette in a fallafel shop of la Rue des Rosiers in Paris: "Do you want to make music with me?" The brunette smiled and said […]

Posted: Sat 30-Aug-08 under People, Created in France

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