Secrets One More Thing You Can’t Take With You
An appeals court in Paris has ordered that the body of Yves Montand, the French singer and actor who died in 1991 at 70, be exhumed for genetic tests to determine the validity of a paternity lawsuit.
Aurore Drossard claims that Montand met her mother, actress Anne Drossard, who was 19, and that their relationship lasted two years.
“I have always thought that my mother did not lie to me, and I am sure deep down that I am his daughter,” Aurore Drossard says.
Montand repeatedly refused to undergo tests, but a court ruled in 1994 that the child was his, based on witnesses’ accounts and physical resemblance. French law requires that half a person’s assets after death be divided equally among surviving children. Montand fathered a child with companion Carole Amiel.
Loose talk
The mischievous David Duchovny, offering a “glimpse” of the upcoming “X-files” movie, in Entertainment Weekly: “There are no aliens. Mulder and Scully fall in love, and it turns into this angst-ridden ‘thirtysomething’ thing. Hey, sci-fi fans, bet you can’t wait.”
Over half a century ago, she played a ‘Ziegfeld Girl’
Hedy Lamarr turns 84 today
As long as we’re peeking in on the French…
Gerard Depardieu is France’s all-time movie box-office champ, according to the magazine Le Film Francais.
Depardieu has sold more than a million tickets to 34 different films, and overall has drawn 95 million viewers to his films over a 30-year career.
Catherine Deneuve topped actresses with a million tix sold to 14 different movies.
Everyone wants to own a piece of the Rock
Comedian Chris Rock, who seems to be everywhere these days, has signed on for “Lethal Weapon 4.”
Maybe his presence will bring some zest back to this rather dusty franchise starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. Rene Russo, from “LW3,” will return as Gibson’s high-kicking love interest.
Rock will play a young cop expecting a child with Glover’s daughter.
Suppose he also invented ballot-box stuffing?
Nevermind Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill and Henry Ford. The man dominating voting for Time Magazine’s “Person of the Century” is Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
On Thursday alone, Time received about 200,000 letters, postcards and e-mails supporting nomination of the founder of modern Turkey.
Ataturk, who died in 1938, is revered by Turks for military and diplomatic victories that established Turkey as a republic. Although he governed as a virtual dictator, he campaigned against illiteracy, outlawed polygamy and gave women the vote. He forever westernized Turkish fashion by banning the traditional tasseled fez.
In June, Time announced its end-of-the-century project to select the top 100 people, along with CBS News. The Ataturk letters started coming in August after Turkish journalists began urging readers to push for their national hero.
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