Bernard Giraudeau

Bernard Giraudeau (born June 18, 1947) is a French actor, film director, scriptwriter, producer and writer.

Life

Giraudeau was born in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime. In 1963 he enlisted in the French navy as a trainee engineer, qualifying as the first in his class a year later. He served on the helicopter carrier Jeanne d'Arc in 1964-1965 and 1965-1966, and subsequently on the frigate Duquesne and the aircraft carrier Clemenceau before leaving the navy to try his luck as an actor.
He was married to actor and author Anny Duperey, with whom he has two children; one of them, Sara Giraudeau has achieved success as an actor.
Giraudeau first appeared on film in Deux hommes dans la ville (1978), and his first film as director was in 1987, though he has continued to work as an actor. As a writer, he has written the text of books of photography as well as publishing children's stories (Contes d'Humahuaca, 2002) and several novels. He is also the reader on the French audio books of the Harry Potter series.
In 2000 he suffered a cancer which led to the removal of his left kidney, with a subsequent metastasis in 2005 affecting his lungs. He has said that the cancer led him to re-evaluate his life and understand himself better. He now devotes some of his time to the support of cancer victims through the Institut Curie and the Institut Gustave-Roussy in Paris.



Filmography as film actor

1973 - Deux Hommes dans la ville, directed by José Giovanni - Frédéric Cazeneuve
1975 - Le Gitan, directed by José Giovanni - Mareuil
1976 - Bilitis, directed by David Hamilton - Lucas
1977 - Moi, fleur bleue - Isidore
1977 - Et la tendresse ? Bordel ! - Luc
1979 - Le Toubib, directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre - François
1980 - La Boum - Éric Thompson
1981 - Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine, directed by Patrice Leconte - Daniel
1981 - Croque la vie, directed by Jean-Charles Tacchella - Alain
1981 : Passione d'amore, directed by Ettore Scola - Capitaine Giorgio Bacchetti
1982 : Le Grand Pardon, directed by Alexandre Arcady
1983 : Le Ruffian, directed by José Giovanni - Gérard
1983 : Papy fait de la résistance, directed by Jean-Marie Poiré
1984 - Rue barbare - Chet
1984 - L'Année des méduses, directed by Christopher Frank - Romain Kalides
1985 - Les Spécialistes, directed by Patrice Leconte - Paul Brandon
1985 - Bras de fer, directed by Gérard Vergez - Delancourt
1986 - Les Longs Manteaux - Murat
1986 - Poussière d'ange - Inspector Simon Blount
1990 - La Reine blanche, directed by Jean-Loup Hubert - Yvon
1992 - Après l'amour, directed by Diane Kurys - David
1992 - Drôles d'oiseaux, directed by Peter Kassovitz - Constant Van Loo
1993 - Une nouvelle vie, directed by Olivier Assayas - Constantin
1994 - Elles ne pensent qu'à ça..., directed by Charlotte Dubreuil
1994 - Le Fils préféré, directed by Nicole Garcia - Francis
1996 - Ridicule, directed by Patrice Leconte - Abbé de Vilecourt
1997 - Marquise, directed by Véra Belmont - Molière
1997 - Marthe, directed by Jean-Loup Hubert - The Colonel
1998 - TGV, directed by Moussa Touré - Roger
1998 - Le Double de ma moitié, directed by Yves Amoureux - Thierry Montino
1999 - Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes, directed by François Ozon - Léopold
1999 - Une affaire de goût, directed by Bernard Rapp - Frédéric Delamont
2002 - La Petite Lili, directed by Claude Miller - Brice
2002 - Ce jour là - Emil
2003 - Je suis un assassin - Brice Kantor
2003 - Les Marins perdus - Diamantis
2004 - Chok-Dee - Jean


Filmography as Director

1988 - La Face de l'ogre (film TV) 1991 - L'Autre (film, 1991), d'après le roman d'Andrée Chédid 1992 - Un été glacé (film TV) 1996 - Les Caprices d'un fleuve


Documentaries
The travels of Bernard Giraudeau 1992 - La Transamazonienne 1999 - Un ami chilien 1999 - Chili Norte - Chili Sure 2003 - Esquisses philippines


Bibliography

1992 : Transamazonienne, Editions Odyssée, photos Pierre-Jean Rey ISBN 2909478017
1996 : Les Caprices d'un fleuve, Editions Mille et Une Nuits, ISBN 9782842050559
2001 : Le Marin à l'ancre, Editions Métailié ISBN 284424389X
2002 : Les Contes d'Humahuaca, Editions Métailié / Seuil jeunesse ISBN 2020567369
2003 : Ailleurs, commentaire sur les peintures d'Olivier Suire Verley, Editions PC ISBN 2912683254
2004 : Les Hommes à terre, Editions Métailié ISBN 2864245825
2007 : Les Dames de nage, Editions Métailié ISBN 2864246147
2007 : "Le Retour du quartier-maître", in Nos mers et nos océans, ouvrage collectif des Écrivains de Marine, Éditions des Équateurs, p. 75-106
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Benjamin Biolay

Benjamin Biolay (born 20 January 1973 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône) is a French singer, songwriter, musician, actor and record producer. He is the brother of singer Coralie Clément, whose two albums he wrote and produced, and the ex-husband of Chiara Mastroianni, the daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni.
His low-key vocal style is somewhat similar to French pop star Étienne Daho. With the singer Keren Ann, whose first two albums he co-wrote and produced, he contributed several songs to Chambre avec Vue, the successful comeback album of singer Henri Salvador, and has since worked as a writer, arranger or producer for other icons of French music, including Juliette Gréco, Julien Clerc and Françoise Hardy.
He wrote or performed most of the songs on the 2004 soundtrack to Clara et Moi by Arnaud Viard, and released the album Home with his wife the same year. After two more rock oriented albums in 2005 and 2007 he was dropped by his record company and began working on his first independent release. 'La Superbe' was released on Naïve records in 2009.

Discography

Solo
2001 Rose Kennedy
2001 Benjamin Biolay Remix EP
2003 Négatif
2004 Clara et Moi (Original Soundtrack)
2005 À l'origine
2007 Trash Yéyé
2009 La Superbe
with Chiara Mastroianni
2004 Home
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Beatriz Montañez

Lopez Beatriz Montañez, ( Almaden , Ciudad Real , 1977) is a journalist Spanish collaborating on the program The middle of The Sixth.

Biography and Career

Born in Almaden , experience in the media begins in the town of Almaden station Onda Mancha ", now converted Cadena SER Almaden , with the help of its director Luis Mariano Waiters , producing various programs. Subsequently, following completion of compulsory education in Spain , left the country to pursue a degree in Media by the University of California , in the United States ,1meanwhile made his early work in U.S. Hispanic media in different chain affiliate stations Telemundo ( American chain owned by NBC ), or Radio KLVE (K-Love). Back in Spain, made various audio-visual courses, studied conducting at the Institute of Spanish Radio and Television issued an online master in Harvard University , Education online and Democracy and the Media. " He has also worked in local radio Cadena SER in Castilla-La Mancha reporting programs featuring local and provincial levels. In print wrote collaborations in the Lanza Journal of Ciudad Real. In his years as a model, made numerous advertising campaigns that led her to visit various cities such as Milan, , Tokyo, , New York and Los Angeles.
He has also appeared in music videos, like video Andrés Calamaro Like I Love You (1999), or the video for the song of my life The fate of El Canto del Loco.
In the year 2006he joined the program of The Sixth Intermediate , presented by The Great Wyoming , where he participates as a collaborator with the "media Fritanga" (formerly "Journal of Media") which is reviewed in humorous currently every day, and as such has earned for winning an Ondas Award for best current affairs program. In 2009it he combined with the presentation of documentary program Where were you when ... , produced for the channel Forta.
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Victor Victoria

Victor Victoria is a 1982 musical comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that involves transvestism and sexual identity as central themes. It stars Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras and John Rhys-Davies. The film was produced by Tony Adams, directed by Blake Edwards, and scored by Henry Mancini, with lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. It was later adapted in 1995 as a Broadway musical. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won the Academy Award for Original Music Score. It is a remake of Viktor und Viktoria, a German film of 1933.

Production

The screenplay of Victor Victoria was adapted by Blake Edwards (Andrews' husband) and Hans Hoemburg from the 1933 German film Viktor und Viktoria by Reinhold Schünzel. According to Blake Edwards, the screenplay took only one month to write. There was also a 1935 remake named First a Girl, made in the United Kingdom and directed by Victor Saville, about a woman who stands in for a female impersonator and becomes a hit. Julie Andrews watched the 1933 version to prepare for her role.

Plot summary

In 1930s Paris. Victoria Grant (Julie Andrews), a struggling soprano, is unable to find work. She bombs an audition at Chez Lui, a tawdry night club where Carroll "Toddy" Todd (played by Robert Preston) also works. In the evening of that day Toddy starts a fight at Chez Lui after finding out that his boyfriend was dating a woman and is subsequently fired. Later that night Victoria runs into Toddy at a Paris restaurant where she is scheming to plant a cockroach in her food in order to get her meal for free, trying to foil the waiter (Graham Stark). The plan goes awry after the cockroach goes missing and ends up on a woman's leg, starting a riot in the restaurant, which Victoria and Toddy use to escape. They spend the night at his apartment. The next day Toddy's boyfriend shows up to pick up his things and when he insults Toddy Victoria breaks his nose and takes his spare clothes, as hers were ruined by the previous night's rain. At the sight of Victoria dressed as a man Toddy hits upon a plan to help both her and himself: Victoria will pretend to be a man pretending to be a woman, and get a job as a female impersonator in a nightclub. In order to enhance the ruse, Toddy will pretend to be her gay lover.

Soon Victoria's new persona, "Count Victor Grazinski", becomes the toast of Paris. As money and fame start to turn her (and Toddy's) lives around, an additional complication arises. King Marchand (James Garner), a gangster and nightclub-owner from Chicago, finds himself at first attracted to Victoria and repelled by "Victor". This encourages his burly bodyguard, "Squash" Bernstein (Alex Karras), to come out of the closet, but it enrages Marchand's whiny-voiced, peroxide-blonde spitfire girlfriend Norma (Lesley Ann Warren).

Marchand starts to investigate Victor, sure that a man like himself could never fall for another man but in the end declares that he does not care if Victoria is a man. Norma becomes more annoying and tawdry, in contrast to the classy Victoria, and King finally has Squash send her home to Chicago so that he is free to pursue Victoria, and has to live up to the image that he is living with a man. Victoria must come to terms with what she really wants out of life: to be true to herself by giving up her career and fame in Paris to be with the man who loves her and whom she loves, or to continue with her duplicitous profession and risk losing Marchand.

In a subplot of the film, the owner of the Chez Lui club also is trying to investigate Victor, since he suspects that "he" is the soprano whom he rejected from his club.

The vocal numbers in the film are presented as nightclub acts. However, the lyrics or situations of some of the songs are calculated to relate to the unfolding drama. Thus, the two staged numbers Le Jazz Hot and The Shady Dame from Seville help to present Victoria as a female impersonator. The latter number is later reinterpreted by Toddy for diversionary purposes in the plot. And the cozy relationship of Toddy and Victoria is promoted by the song You and Me, which is sung before the audience at the nightclub.

Awards

The movie won the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score. It was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Robert Preston), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Julie Andrews), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Lesley Ann Warren), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Rodger Maus, Tim Hutchinson, William Craig Smith, Harry Cordwell), Best Costume Design and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

American Film Institute recognition

2000: AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs #76

Cast

Julie Andrews as Victoria Grant

James Garner as King Marchand

Robert Preston as Carroll 'Toddy' Todd

Lesley Ann Warren as Norma Cassidy

Alex Karras as 'Squash' Bernstein

John Rhys-Davies as Andre Cassell

Graham Stark as Waiter

Peter Arne as Labisse

Herb Tanney as Charles Bovin

Michael Robbins as Manager of Victoria's hotel

Norman Chancer as Sal Andratti

David Gant as Restaurant Manager

Maria Charles as Madame President

Malcolm Jamieson as Richard DiNardo

John Cassady as Juke

Glen Murphy as boxer

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