Charlotte…

If you are as big as a fan as I am, then you would enjoy this article on the NY Magazine:
Charlotte Gainsbourg at ten in the morning is as long and lean as an haricot vert. Seated at a banquette at Bemelmans Bar, she asks the waiter if she can smoke. The answer is no, of course. She shrugs and settles in for an hour of green tea and deferred desire. She has impeccable manners, after all. In town to promote her new CD, 5:55, which went platinum in France, she is very polite rather than very chic or very louche. “Where would you like to sit?” she asks.
Read the rest HERE…
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les langues…

Bloody hell! I don’t understand these people… We are talking the same language(s) but they don’t understand me anyway… As Mr. Hoban once said, “After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?”

The good news is that there is no need for me to understand them… Thankyouverymuch!

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And the Oscar goes to:

The moment I saw the three giants of cinema direction on stage, I and everyone else knew that this year the Oscar was going to Martin Scorsese. It was certainly about time, if not long overdue, and it was one of my only right predictions this year!!! So the best picture of 2006 was “The Departed”, which I still haven’t seen! It’s funny how all the films starring Leo win big at the Academy Awards… He’s got the right charisma and acting chops I guess…

The Oscar party at Sam and Talayeh’s was fun… Not to mention that I lost not only among friends, but in the “Oscar Prediction Contest” – a family tradition going back several years – to Judge Saber (i.e. mon papa) and my movie buff sis… In my defense, that’s all because I haven’t been to any movie theatre since the TIFF 2006 and somehow stuck with those few foreign films this year… Seems I have some major catching up to do!

Marj, who won the contest last night, was over the moon… How on earth she knew who would win the best short film documentary or sound editing is beyond me!

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Giant Flakes…

So I got to the hotel at 6:30am, like the early bird that I am (yeah, right), in the slushiest and most miserable weather ever. Honest to god, I’d never seen snowflakes that big…

Back at the office now, sitting behind this “stupid box” again, blogging and eating before starting real serious work… The good news is that the event’s turnout was great… That’s only because (plug alert) Adobe products are the coolest and they always win over the giant flakes!

Let’s give credit to the organizers as well. 😉

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