I love you, — I don't anymore...
Amid the deluge of wars, earthquakes, inflation and the other troubles that have descended upon the world, Paris was shaken by one unbearable disaster: the separation of singer-composer Serge Gainsbourg from his graceful English wife, Jane Birkin.
Years after they sang “I love you, I don't anymore,” their song became reality. But since both parties also announced that they were very sad about what had happened, Paris sheds tears with them and awaits a possible reconciliation.
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A surprising meeting
By contrast, two somewhat older divorcees met in surprising circumstances. The Soviet Sergei Kavzov spent an entire night at the home of his former wife, Christina Onassis, on Avenue Foch in Paris.
Now people are wondering what the “weekend” means. Was it intended for “settling things”? Do they still love each other?
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De Gaulle as a “paranoid”
France is marking these days the tenth anniversary of General de Gaulle’s death.
A survey conducted among children found that the younger generation had indeed heard of de Gaulle as someone who “did a lot for France,” but did not know very well what exactly he had done. If these children decide to board one of the tourist boats sailing along the Seine, they will be able to read in the booklet they receive that, among other things, the general was paranoid. This is alongside other challenges to sacred national institutions.
The author of these booklets is none other than the owner of the boats, Jean Bruel. The mayor of Paris ordered the police to seize the booklets, but Bruel ignores him and is preparing more. The struggle of the “Onassis of the Seine,” as he is called here, against the establishment and Gaullism did not begin today. A Gaullist during the war, he later supported Mendès against de Gaulle and became known, among other things, when in November 1973 he put up eye-catching signs at his boats’ terminal that said: “The Arabs pay in oil and the Gaullists in cowardice,” and invited the Dutch to enjoy a free trip because they had not yielded to the Arab embargo.
Bergman: “Still alive”
The renowned director Ingmar Bergman refused an offer from Paris’s renowned Mint Museum, which wanted to issue a coin bearing his portrait.
Bergman was not willing to “sit” before a sculptor who would create his likeness, and announced: “I think I’m still alive.”
Television · 2008
Gideon Kouts’s special report from Damascus for the Mabat news program
Journalist Gideon Kouts reports to Channel 1’s Mabat program from Paris after returning from Damascus, where he was part of the press delegation accompanying French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Kouts describes being received as an Israeli journalist, the appearance of the city, the heavy security at Assad’s presidential palace, and the four-way summit held there.
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