tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5379693993565829338.post3540418285109853361..comments2023-07-04T09:58:36.468+08:00Comments on Total Film (Wordy): 左輪 357Wordyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457516587590450245noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5379693993565829338.post-65528489824703221372011-06-15T08:32:27.621+08:002011-06-15T08:32:27.621+08:00Although Yves Montand has quite a successful film ...Although Yves Montand has quite a successful film career, he was primarily a singer who acted, sort of like a Frank Sinatra of France. One of his most famous songs in America is <em>Les Feuilles Mortes</em>, which was covered in English as <em>Autumn Leaves</em>. Together with his real-life wife Simone Signoret, they are the most glamorous left-wing couples in France, no mean feat considered that France is a Socialist country. It is also because of their politics they have a hard time to make it in Hollywood during the McCarthy era (<em>Room at the Top</em>, the movie for which Signoret won an Oscar, was made in Britain rather than Hollywood)<br><br>By the way, it is the leading category, not the supporting category, that Signoret won her Oscar, the first ever, and until Marion Cotillard, the only French actress to do so. A sex symbol for the cerebral, Signoret is famous for her refined intelligence. If you get the chance you should pick up her acclaimed autobiography <em>Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used To Be</em>(it is available in Yau Ma Tei Public Library, I have seen it before). She is one of the rare great stars who is also a great writer. I particularly like this quote from her: <br><br><em>“It worked this time. I put it over on them. I made them believe I could do it. But one of these days they're going to discover the fakery. They're going to find out I'm only an amateur”. </em><br> <br>It is just a very well-put of the insecurity everyone feels about themselves. Well at least I do, every day.shangri_lahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17294489704942491888noreply@blogger.com