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 p.m. on Saturday” celebrates legendary cars, such as James Dean’s Porsche and Renault 4L …
The Day> James Dean and the Cursed Porsche
On September 30, 1955, James Dean was broke in full glory, driving his Porsche 550 Spyder. The one who had become the symbol of rebellious youth, with the film The Fury of Living, then becomes a myth. All of America mourns the death of the prodigy actor who was the only one in film history to be nominated twice for an Oscar, posthumously, for East of Eden and Giant. But what really killed James Dean? Is it his passion for speed? Or this legendary car that some people whisper was cursed?
And also, the most exported French cars, tickets …
News> The saga of the 4L
The Renaut 4L has just celebrated its 60th anniversary! It has been thirty years since its production stopped, and yet it continues to be part of the collective memory. It is the French car that has been exported the most in the world, to around a hundred countries. And we find them in all family albums. Tonight, it is not a story of mechanics, but a story of love and friendship that “8:30 p.m. on Saturday” tells, that of the French with a car that has accompanied them all their lives, saw them grow up, go on vacation, emancipate themselves …
Bonus> Eggplant, the ancestor of periwinkles
The era of 4L is also that of periwinkles. They roamed the streets of major French cities until 2018 to issue parking tickets. But before we called themselves periwinkles, we called them… aubergines!
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– James dean, by Jean-Philippe Guérand (ed. Gallimard).
– Live fast, by Philippe Besson (Pocket ed.).
– My life with James Dean, by William Bast (City Editions).
– The Fury of Living, by Nicholas Ray.
– East of Eden, by Elia Kazan.
– 4L generations, by Philippe Berthonnet and Bernard Canonne (Technical editions for the automobile and industry).
– The Triumph of a Utopia, by Jean Viard (ed. de l’Aube).
– The 4L Years, from the Auto-Journal (Solar ed).
Non-exhaustive list.
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