Paris, je t’aime – Bastille
After I posed the rhetorical question yesterday about video tributes to world-class neighborhoods, Alex sent me Paris, je t’aime-Bastille. Point well-taken, and many thanks! According to Wikipedia:...
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Revisionist Remix for ‘A Moveable Feast’
Hemingway with his first wife, Hadley Richardson, left, and his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer. [Source: Hemingway Collection/JFK Library/AP/NYT] Ernest Hemingway said some mean things about Gertrude...
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The King Is Dead. Long Live The Herons!
The statistics are staggering for the wine auction at La Tour d’Argent, the venerable Left Bank restaurant with a 27-room wine cellar [left; photo by David Queen/Wikipedia]. The auction fetched more...
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Was Man Ray’s “Emak-Bakia” the “Avatar” of the 1920s?
Kiki of Montparnasse in Man Ray’s 1926 silent film “Emak-Bakia” [Photo source: Stills, a blog with the descriptor, “I Watch, I Screen-Cap, You Look” – I love it!] When Man Ray’s short film...
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A Courtesan’s Advice For Carla Bruni: “Don’t Eat That Bling!”
Comparing the extravagance of Carla Bruni and Marie-Antoinette reminded me of another sordid tale of conspicuous consumption from The Daily Mail, which got its facts from that august nexus of science...
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Political Theater on Fashionista Street: No One Posed Such Questions To...
Writing that headline, I realized for the first time how much Nicholas Sarkozy reminds me of Richard Nixon. The shrewdest step of his political brand was marrying former Italian supermodel Carla Bruni....
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Flaneur’s Gallery: Music in the Tuileries
Édouard Manet. Music in the Tuileries. Oil on canvas, 1862. National Gallery, London [Source: Wikipedia] I believe the fashionable Flaneur in top hat at the left edge of Manet’s painting is the poet...
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Remembering a Free Man in Paris
Robert F. Willis (May 12, 1921 – November 3. 1987) A street artist in Montmartre made this sketch of my father, Bob Willis, in 2005. It’s based on a photo taken after the war which is tagged “Paris...
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Remembering a Free Man in Paris on Father’s Day
Robert F. Willis (May 12, 1921 – November 3. 1987) A street artist in Montmartre made this sketch of my father, Bob Willis, in 2005. It’s based on a photo taken after the war which is tagged “Paris...
View ArticleHenry Miller and Anaïs Nin: Two Film Clips
I wish these clips included documentation about their sources. Any information from readers would be most appreciated. Henry Miller & Anaïs Nin on Death and Dreams | Anaïs Nin reflections
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