Articles, radio broadcasts and television reports by Gideon Kouts. Search the texts and browse by media type, publication or station, year and topic.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
A story about a Saudi driver who saved an awkward diplomatic visit with an improvised tour of Paris; it is followed by passages about a hashish-smuggling affair and circles of the French New Right.
A column from Paris with short pieces on President Giscard’s appearance alongside Elliott the Dragon, security checks at a department store, businessman Philippe Bidermann, prostitutes’ discussions on regulating their profession, a new reader-owned weekly, and a dispute over the French Communist Party’s ties to a Soviet bank.