Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail 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 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <5ogs6j16p96qtg9ak72kdu3l95f8ha37v9@4ax.com> Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="9708"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 2150 In article , Charles Packer 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 >>> 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 -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."