Paris Magazine: Sartre's secretary
JERUSALEM -- Benny Levy, a secretary to the famed French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and a former militant socialist who later embraced a life of piety and study of Judaism, died Wednesday of a heart attack. He was 58. Levy was born in Cairo, Egypt, into a Jewish family and later moved to France. Joining Paris's Marxist-Leninist circles, Levy became a prominent radical in the 1968 student protests and was best known by his rebel name, Pierre Victor.Levy is perhaps best known...
Paris Magazine: Rabin hoping to see Clinton to discuss talks Israeli doubts furor over deportations will derail negotiations.
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said Saturday he wanted to meet with President-elect Clinton before the Mideast peace talks reconvened to determine whether the men shared the same approach to the negotiations. Rabin, in an interview on an Israeli army radio station, also said again that he thought negotiations would resume despite angry reactions to Israel's deportation of 415 Palestinians to Lebanon on Dec. 17.Lebanon has refused to take the men, and they...
Paris Magazine: Fatherhood for Depp
LONDON: Actor Johnny Depp, one of Hollywood's wild men, is to be a father.His new girlfriend, French actress and singer Vanessa Paradis, is three months' pregnant, it was reported yesterday.Paradis, a respected actress in France, is best known outside her native country for the 1987 film Joe le Taxi which made her a teenage star.The Paris magazine Voici said Paradis held a party for friends and relatives to announce her pregnancy and has...
Paris Magazine: GRACE
Out of the blue, Prince Charming
In the fourth of a five-part series, Grace Kelly attends the Cannes Film Festival, unaware that a Paris magazine had plans that would change her life.AS SHE PREPARED to fly to France to attend the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, Grace Kelly was unaware of a conference taking place in the offices of Paris Match magazine - a meeting that set in motion a series of events that would ultimately change her life forever. It began with the magazine editor's desire for a photo feature that...
Paris Magazine: Dissidents proceed cautiously
Fourth in a series MOSCOW - Irina Krigova could have stepped off the cover of a Paris magazine as she came forward and greeted us - in French.Slim, with blue stockings, red shoes, plaid skirt and blouse, fluffy sweater and a pageboy haircut, she had a certain look and style hardly expected from a Russian dissident leader who makes her living as a street sweeper.Walking from the Shodenskaja subway station to her fifth floor walk-up apartment several blocks away, her 5- and 3-year-old...
