I'll bump this thread before they close it... Hey French Critic, where the fuck are you? Some of us around here would pay to read your prose!

In the meantime, I'll add my 2 cents about things I read in the main FC's thread (link below):

Etienne Daho (not an actor but a singer) was being talked about and I'll concur: I saw him many times at le Queen on the Champs Elysées when it was still a gay night club. He did not look healthy at all, wasted all in all a little rattled. However in comparison to...

Véronique Sanson (still not an actor but a singer, also discussed in the original thread), I would say he looked blissful. It was the end of the 90s and I saw Veronique Sanson twice at the same bar (Amnésia Café - rue Vieille du Temple - closed venue in the meantime) and boy! was she an absolute mess.

Both times around 4-ish pm and girl was beyond wasted, crying, tumbling all over the place. It was cringeworthy. The first time it happened, I felt really sad. The second time, maybe three to six month later, still early-mid-afternoon, there she was again, at the same spot, in the same sad wrecked state, it was like déjà vu all over again (I love pleonasms). The second time I sensed she wouldn't be among us for much longer, that was horrible to witness. I'm amazed (and relieved) to say that she's still around today. Pfew! Still a close call.

And last thing I know is about actor Michel Blanc. A friend of mine was living just across the street of his apartment near rue de Montorgueil and he was living with a black guy (sorry cannot say Afro-American since we don't have the PC equivalent and Afro-American would not be correct).

Now, as a tribute to French Critic, one of his most hilarious quote (about singer Catherine Lara)

[quote]Robin's ex, singer Catherine Lara is just her opposite. Think Joan Jett with white hair, a man's suit and a violin. Oh and no closet whatsoever save the one for her leather jacket. When the French media tried to put her into one, she gleefully kicked the door open back. All-time favorite quote, on live TV in the early 80s: "What do I prefer most in men? Their women."

FC is a fucking riot!