Bonjour *|EMAIL|*, The Number One American Dream: France Takes First Place Parler Paris Nouvellettre® Your taste of life in Paris and France http://www.ParlerParis.com Monday, January 11, 2010 Paris, France • Printer Friendly http://www.adrianleeds.com/parlerparis/11-1-10pparis.html • Parler Paris Blog http://parlerparis.blogspot.com/ • Community Calendar (Updated Every Wednesday) http://www.adrianleeds.com/parlerparis/calendar.html • Recommend to Friends http://www.adrianleeds.com/parlerparis/tell-a-friend/index.php • Don't miss a single issue of Parler Paris! "Whitelist" Parler Paris by adding "info@adrianleeds.com" to your address book. --------------------------------------------------------------------- New! Le Beaubourg . Located in a grand Haussmannian building, just steps from Le Centre Georges Pompidou, Le Beaubourg is a masterpiece of design and function. 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It's the reason we (Expats) put up with all the administrative 'bull_ _ _ _' and top-of-the-charts taxes at every turn. It's a contradictory place that seduces us as tourists and then makes it near to impossible to immigrate and earn a living. They want us for a week, but not for a lifetime. Still, we become so ravenous that we'll do anything to have more and put up with her demands as our consummate 'lover.' Remember "American in Paris?" This 1951 story hasn't changed much for us in all these years. Jerry (Gene Kelly) falls in love with Paris after his stint there in World War II and tries to succeed as an artist along with his side-kick friend, Adam (Oscar Levant), a struggling concert pianist. A wealthy American woman (Nina Foch) sponsors him (wanting more than just art, of course!) and meanwhile he falls in love with a French girl, Lise (Leslie Caron). She's already entangled with Henri (Georges Guétary), whose family saved hers during World War II...and so the story plays out until 'guy gets girl.' Want a flash from the past? Here's what the New York Times review said about the film in 1951: "...But the picture takes on its glow of magic when Miss Caron is on the screen. When she isn't, it bumps along slowly as a patched-up, conventional musical show. Why this should be is fairly obvious. Miss Caron is not a beauteous thing, in the sense of classic features, but she has a sweet face and a most delightful smile. Furthermore, she has winsomeness, expression and youthful dignity —- and she can dance like a gossamer wood-sprite on the edge of a petal at dawn." ( http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A02E0D81530E03ABC4D53DFB667838A649EDE ) Ms. Caron was our American concept of the quintessential French girl. Not only in American in Paris, but in her other great films, such as Gigi (1958, Daddy Long Legs (1955) and Father Goose (1964). I had the pleasure of working with her many years ago to help her produce a Web site for her charming "Auberge La Lucarne aux Chouettes" (inn) on the Yonne River in Bourgogne (but owns it no longer). She was lovely, elegant and fascinating. Finally, after all these years, she's put her life's story into a autobiography, "Thank Heaven" (a memoir), frankly exposing her remarkable life. Last Wednesday evening she was interviewed at The American Library in Paris by film critic and author, John Baxter. She was just as eloquent as I remembered her and she graciously signed copies of the book, sold at the Library by Odile Hellier of the Village Voice Bookshop (http://www.villagevoicebookshop.com/index.html). I am wrting a series of 'post cards' for International Living this month about France's true affordability: health care, accommodations and investments. 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