Articles, radio broadcasts and television reports by Gideon Kouts. Search the texts and browse by media type, publication or station, year and topic.
Four columns from Paris: rumors of Greta Garbo’s return to cinema and her holiday in Switzerland; women’s professional wrestling in France and Belgium; the postponement of a sale of Brigitte Bardot nude photographs intended to help protect seals; and a woman bodyguard planning to open a school for women in the profession.
Bokassa seeks revenge on Giscard by publishing letters, photographs and memoirs relating to their ties. Other items concern Serge Gainsbourg’s book, the sale of documents from Jean Elleinstein’s collection, and attacks on women in Paris.
A Paris column on the scale of alcoholism in France and changing drinking habits, the production of jeans named Jesus in the Soviet Union, a children’s book about Brigitte Bardot and animals, the French president’s talisman, and Henry Kissinger’s earnings from interviews and lectures.
A description of the extravagant holidays of the Arab oil princes in France: robberies do not disrupt their stay on the Riviera, and local workers take care to accommodate their wishes and customs.
A Paris news column on a study about Napoleon, café-theatres, the Hungarian writer Miklós Haraszti’s return to Hungary, the circumstances of David Carr’s death, Rika Zarai’s role in arranging an interview with Menachem Begin, Marchais and Arafat’s ties, astrology, and Arthur Rubinstein’s request to scientists at the Weizmann Institute.
Four Paris columns: the French president’s aspirations for the Nobel Prize; Mary Capella’s struggle after her partner was killed during the seizure of the Iraqi Embassy; a woman’s election to the French Academy and criticism of its membership; and the tax dispute surrounding Christina Onassis. A separate item in the column concerns Daniel Cohn-Bendit’s appointment to a post at a publishing house.
A Paris column featuring short pieces about a meeting with terrorist Kozo Okamoto in Ramla Prison; Bahrain’s refusal to admit visitors identified as Zionists; the disclosure of French public figures’ incomes; Marcel Dassault; Michèle Morgan and her birth date; a dolphin-and-striptease show; tourism for Gulf rulers; the screening of “Emmanuelle” in Yugoslavia; Ginger Rogers’s church visits; and attitudes toward the memory of Marshal Pétain.
Six items from Paris: the treatment of the French president’s wife and the ministers’ wives during a tour of the oil principalities; Robert Hossein’s theatre plans; a kibbutz member hoping to publish her writing; private screenings of a Chaplin film; Polish architects’ win to design an Islamic centre in Madrid; and gifts to the journalists accompanying the president.
A Paris news column on Brigitte Bardot’s campaign against animal experiments, the cancellation of Coluche’s program, Christina Onassis’s divorce, Sylvia Kristel, Jerry Lewis’s performances, the marketing of atomic shelters, casting a film about the Pope, and a singer’s offer to perform for Khomeini.
Five items from Paris: the debate over Charlie Chaplin’s Jewishness following a court ruling against a newspaper; Saudi purchasers’ wish to retain a French stake in the factories they acquire; Yves Montand on Woody Allen; the retirement of the Frères Jacques; and Demis Roussos missing out on the role of Bluto in the film “Popeye.”
Four reports from France: Michel Sardou and his attitude toward the oil emirates; the younger generation of Paris clochards; the revival of the drug network known as the “French Connection”; and a factory producing elongated eggs for export.
A collection of reports from Paris on the fate of the diamonds received by the French president from Bokassa; a compensation claim following an accident involving Roger Moore; elderly jazz musicians performing; trafficking in women between France and Africa; and a lawsuit between Régine and Sukarno’s widow. The report on trafficking in women continues on a page not included.