Buy on Amazon. Rate this book. Provocative, passionate, intelligent, and witty, Simone Signoret has led - and continues to lead - several lives. French, half-Jewish, born in Germany, Simone Signoret is not only an actress but also a political activist, a wife, and a mother.
With amazing frankness, she highlights her roles in her celebrated films; her marriage to singer and actor Yves Montand; her trip to Russia and her meeting with Nitika Khruschev; her life in New York and Hollywood; and, above all, her friendships with famous people.
Nonfiction Biography History France. More Details. Simone Signoret 11 books 6 followers. Simone Signoret was a French cinema actress often hailed as one of France's greatest movie stars. Search review text. Completely different from usual movie biographies that mostly serve as narcissistic celebrations of vanity,this one is a memoir of one actual artist who had something interesting to say.
The name of Simone Signoret might not be so well known today by kids who are fed on celebrity gossip, but during s and s she was one of the biggest international movie stars and often used her fame to openly confront injustice - in tandem with her husband Yves Montand, Signoret would petition, sign and use her name to protest against than current political regimes her signature would be next to Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, Jean-Paul Sartre and biggest names of french public life.
Never a member of any party and often criticized for her political involvements Signoret was always provocative, intelligent and compassionate - and ironic enough to be aware that any time she would visit a prison or join a street protest, some would see it as a photo opportunity. As a first european actress who won "Oscar" she is also surprisingly clear-headed about her professional success and laughs at mistakes.
I had read this book long ago, when I was much younger and my curiosity was mainly focused on what she had to say about her husband affair with Marilyn Monroe - today I am older and far more interested about everything else Signoret had to say.
How difficult was to be jewish and deprived of work during WW2. Her early life and how it blossomed and changed once she met Montand who was her life partner in every meaning of the word - she writes far more about him than about herself, clearly she is delighted with his success far more than with her own.
How they both travelled trough Eastern Block and met Khrushchev, Tito, local politicians and her impressions of them - and how it all basically blocked her entry to U. Endearingly free of typical movie star's anecdotes but full of interesting perceptions about people around her, political opponents, cowards and hypocrites, Signoret lived dignified life and her memoirs are brave, inspiring read. Memories of WW2: "The battle for Arnhem was in a full swing. We were sandwiched between Allied and German armies.
Than, for two or three days we lived without friends and without enemies - except for one, a poor fifteen or sixteen year old boy who hid in the woods. He got riddled with a shot from local commando; they had gotten together twenty or so guys to shoot him down and drag him into town hall as a trophy.
Call it nostalgia for Greenwich Village in the Beat era or the Left Bank of the Jazz Age: tuned-in travelers are seeking out more local precincts. Although we now associate nostalgia with fond memory, the word was coined to refer to an unwanted medical condition.
The —algia in nostalgia means "pain"; a product of New Latin, it can be found in more clinical-sounding words such as glossalgia pain in the tongue , cranialgia a fancy word for headache , and proctalgia a literal pain in the behind.
Johannes Hofer — was a Swiss physician who named the condition, which he identified as a mania tied to homesickness in Swiss mercenary soldiers. The nost- in nostalgia means "homecoming," and such sentimental yearning for home during field operations was viewed as a disorder of the brain, with symptoms ranging from melancholy and malnutrition to brain fever and hallucinations.
Nostalgia may be characterized in four words—sadness, sleeplessness, loss of appetite, and weakness. The nostalgic loses his gayety, his energy, and seeks isolation in order to give himself up to the one idea that pursues him, that of his country. He embellishes the memories attached to places where he was brought up, and creates an ideal world where his imagination revels with an obstinate persistence.
Those who received the diagnosis were frequently demeaned, and depending on the case, the treatments available could be cruel and unsympathetic. And even though deaths were attributed to nostalgia, there are indications that it was never well understood in the public consciousness:. Do you know what they say Ma'am Richards died of? Discussion of nostalgia as an ailment seemed to fall out of favor by the end of the 19th century, but soon afterward its use to describe a longing for something from the past or far away began to take hold:.
I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. In October De Vries remark was remembered in a Massachusetts newspaper, and the phrasing was slightly altered: 7. In an article in a Virginian newspaper discussed many examples of graffiti found on the campus walls at Virginia Commonwealth University.
An instance of the saying was listed as a graffito. In the French movie star Simone Signoret released an autobiography which was translated into English. The following titles were used in the two languages: In June a variant of the saying was tentatively attributed to the quotation magnet Yogi Berra in an Atlanta, Georgia newspaper: Baseball mementos, once totems of hero-worshiping kids and lifelong fans, have become big business — a billion-bucks-a-year industry by some estimates.
One day later in the saying was again ascribed to Yogi Berra in a New York newspaper: The protagonists were a fictitious crosstalk team invented by fellow comedians Tommy Handley and Ronald Frankau…. In conclusion, currently the earliest evidence indicates that the jest about nostalgia was created by Peter De Vries.
0コメント