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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: [OT] Waiting for Catherine Deneuve (in the rain, with an
 umbrella)
Date: 18 Jun 2024 12:31:17 -0000
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In article <pan$c580a$7021a89b$dfee62dd$9aa66e25@cpacker.org>,
Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
>On Mon, 17 Jun 2024 07:59:40 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:08:48 -0600, John Savard wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 08:00:07 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer
>>> <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>A couple of things. First, if you can recall the year of your mother's
>>>>remark, we could figure out if she should have heard of Catherine
>>>>Deneuve, based on the star's career arc as gleaned from Wikipedia, et.
>>>>al.
>>> 
>>> Well, it was definitely after 1970, so she had already had some of her
>>> more famous movie roles.
>>> 
>>> John Savard
>> 
>> But for directors such as Luis Bunuel? How did she become famous beyond
>> the art house crowd?
>
>I can answer my own question by delving into newspapers.com.
>The answer is the American publicity machine, via nationally syndicated
>gossip columnists. In 1968 they touted her has the successor to Brigitte
>Bardot as the new cinema sex symbol. This was in connection with the
>movie "Benjamin."

Just to explain... Brigitte Bardot was the French Raquel Welch.  This likely
makes Catherine Deneuve the French Jayne Mansfield.  Deneuve could act too.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."