Articles, radio broadcasts and television reports by Gideon Kouts. Search the texts and browse by media type, publication or station, year and topic.
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.
Gideon Kouts describes Jewish writers and journalists taking part in a booklet by a fascist magazine in France and their reactions after its publication. The column also includes a story about a Lorenzo Lotto painting sold cheaply by nuns and eventually acquired by the Louvre, and a report about a network that drugged and robbed people out for the evening in Paris.
A collection of reports from France on Foreign Legion songs, tanks in a Claude Lelouch film, Mireille Darc’s support for Giscard d’Estaing, Rika Zarai’s performances, Pierre Cardin’s purchase of Maxim’s restaurant, photographs of men in IDF uniforms, Dalida, and Yves Montand’s return to the stage.
A Paris column with reports on secret documents found in garbage bins, sex in Britain, film-star salaries, Maxim’s restaurant, Patrick Dewaere and Demis Roussos.
A Paris column featuring items on the ties between Giscard and Bokassa, the bread-price war in France, the “PIP” radio station, marriage and divorce, Belmondo and Laura Antonelli, Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, and a Mercedes model designed by Courrèges.
A collection of eight pieces from Paris: the fight over Joe Dassin’s children; a plagiarism suit against Françoise Sagan; industrial espionage at a toy fair; a Jewish couple who rented an apartment to a far-right leader; Rika Zarai’s lawsuit against her car’s makers; changes at the newspaper Libération; trends in births and car sales in France; and a survey of film actors’ images.
A Paris column reports on claims about the circumstances of Pope John Paul I’s death, the possibility of a visit to Israel by France’s New Right, French palm exports to Arab countries, Rothschild business interests, and news from French cultural and entertainment life.
News from Paris about the separation of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, Christina Onassis's meeting with her former husband, anti-Gaullist booklets on Seine tourist boats, and Ingmar Bergman's refusal to have his portrait commemorated on a coin.
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 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.