The magazine “8:30 p.m. on Saturday“(Twitter), presented live by Laurent Delahousse just after the 20 hours news on France 2, tells about an unprecedented moment in the life of a personality, behind the scenes of an event or a place belonging to the collective history. Reports that reveal “the little story in the big one”, to leaf through like a family album. This new issue of season 4 of “8:30 pm on Saturdays” revisits some memorable duels, artistic, but not only!
The day when> Michel Berger and Serge Gainsbourg face off in a duel on the piano
They are perhaps the two composers who most transformed the landscape of French song in the 1970s: two very different styles, two personalities, for two musical universes at odds with each other. In 1978, Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier invite the two artists on their show and it gives a real moment of television, with complicity but also rivalry. Berger and Gainsbourg clash around a piano … A funny musical duel, with a name that comes back in the background, that of France Gall, their common point …
And also, a challenge for love, a duel for honor …
News> Writer Romain Gary wants to challenge Clint Eastwood
On the occasion of the theatrical release of Clint Eastwood’s latest film, Cry Macho, here is a true story, totally unknown, and which goes beyond fiction: the great French novelist Romain Gary, the author of The promise of dawn, the only writer to have won two Goncourt awards, challenged Clint Eastwood with a pistol, out of love for actress Jean Seberg…
Bonus> The last political sword duel
All presidential campaigns have their share of oratorical contests… but when was the last sword duel in politics? It was in 1967, between two deputies: Gaston Defferre, socialist mayor of Marseille, and René Ribière, Gaullist deputy for Val-d’Oise, thus crossed swords …
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– Michel Berger, the star with a broken heart, by Grégoire Colard and Alain Morel (ed. Flammarion).
– France Gall, the fate of a star courage, by Grégoire Colard and Alain Morel (ed. Flammarion).
– By rereading Gainsbourg, by Chloé Thibaud (Bleu Nuit ed.).
– The West Fair, directed by Joshua Logan (1969).
– Breathless, directed by Jean-Luc Godard (1960).
– Romain Gary, by Dominique Bona (ed. Mercure de France).
– Clint Eastwood, Film-Maker, by Daniel O’Brien (ed. BT Batsford).
– Mr. Romain Gary, by Kerwin Spire (ed. Gallimard).
– Sneaky wedding, Gary & Seberg, by Ariane Chemin (ed. of Ecuador)
– Love, the best stories, by Nicolas Rey (ed. La Martinière).
Non-exhaustive list.
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