"Bad table manners, Gigi, have ruined more marriages than infidelity"--Gigi
Dreamed of playing with a toy World War I tank with those lozenge-shaped caterpillar treads.
Read the Classics Illustrated comic of The Downfall, Emile Zola's novel of France's disastrous 1870 defeat by Germany. It's a terrific story.
Went shopping.
Moira hated Paris. The service was lousy (hotels, etc.) and everything was a ripoff. [When you pay admission to the Louvre they don't give change--like on a bus--and Cabbies yell if your tip isn't big enough.]
Dinner was pork roast.
Saw Vincente Minnelli's Gigi (for the second time). Back in '50s America it was the height of sophistication. Today it seems vaguely unwholesome--maybe it did to some viewers at the time-- especially Maurice Chevalier's "Thank Heaven for Little Girls." ("Without them what would little boys do?") I kept thinking about what Moira said about Paris. Leslie Caron was cute as a button, and subtler than a present-day equivalent like Britney Spears.
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