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Marion Cotillard is at Cannes this week chatting up her latest movie Rust and Bone. She wore Dior last night for the red carpet premiere of the film, and posed alongside costars Matthias Schoenaerts, young actor Armand Verdure, and director Jacques Audiard. The picture is ready for audiences after Marion and Matthias worked on it together last Fall in the South of France. Marion plays Stéphanie Read more
First sung by Sophia Loren in English in 1960, remade in French by Gillian Hills in 1961, and brought back to life on Mad Men last night by Mrs. Don Draper, Zou Bisou Bisou is the perfect song for a 1960s sex kitten. On Sunday's Season 5 premiere of Mad Men, Don's new wife, Megan, channels a yé-yé girl, a term derived from "yeah! yeah!" The yé-yé movement was comprised of female pop singers Read more
Apple CEO Tim Cook announced the new iPad in San Francisco today. At just 9.4 mm thin and weighing just 1.4 pounds, the new iPad is slightly heavier than its predecessor and comes with improved features over the iPad 2. Let's check them out, one by one below: Improved display — The next iPad will come with an amazing 9.7-inch 2048 x 1536 Retina display that contains 3.1 million pixels, 264 Read more
His grandmother Grace Kelly was a movie star, but Prince Pierre Casiraghi's weekend in NYC was something straight out of TV's Gossip Girl. The 24-year-old prince of Monaco was in a bar fight in the Meatpacking District that reportedly involved expensive vodka and supermodels and left him in the hospital. Witnesses say the royal, third in line to the Monegasque throne, had cuts on his face after Read more
Angelina Jolie made the most of today's stopover in Paris by scheduling two major appearances. She first dropped by Canal Plus's television program Le Grand Journal then continued on to a screening of In the Land of Blood and Honey, where she met up with Brad Pitt on the red carpet. During Angelina's candid Q&A with Le Grand Journal's panel, she shared insight into her filmmaking process and Read more
I don't like hearing about any languages disappearing, but the idea of French's demise seems intolerable. Fortunately, it is also probably impossible, at least in the near future, but French is a language in decline. Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) is an organization dedicated to promoting democracy, peace, and human rights in the 70 French-speaking countries and also to Read more
People toss around the terms "bun" and "chignon" a lot, but are the two interchangeable? No, actually, at least not in English. "Chignon" is the French word for bun, but in its American and British usage, it's an abbreviated term, originating from the phrase "chignon du cou," or "bun at the nape of the neck." With the shortening and misappropriation of the French, it's easy to see why there's so Read more
Do you know somebody who buys case upon case of tomatoes and spends weekends canning them away in order to get a taste of Summer during the cold Winter months? Or perhaps you have a friend or family member that has a famous recipe for peach or raspberry preserves. Well, take a look at our gift guide for the avid canner, filled with lots of home pickling and preserving goodies. Read more
Kate Moss covered her head from the rain this morning to check in on the progress of construction at her new London home with her husband Jamie Hince. Both Kate and Jamie are home from a recent stint in Paris, where she was by his side during his shows with the Kills. Business of her own brought Kate to France earlier this Fall when she talked up her collection for Rimmel in a few select Read more
Bradley Cooper is People's Sexiest Man Alive! The 36-year-old actor is the trifecta of sexy — he's handsome, funny, and smart! Before he starred in classics like Wedding Crashers or The Hangover, Bradley graduated with a degree in English from Georgetown University. We were convinced of his premiere sexiest when we learned he speaks fluent French, after watching him give an interview on French Read more
