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 Saturday” immerses itself in a mysterious disappearance, that of Agatha Christie, and the reappearance of the prodigy Stromae …
The Day> Agatha Christie Disappears for Twelve Days
The “Queen of Crime” is the most translated author and, above all, one of the best known in the world. Agatha Christie invented a genre: mysterious investigations, often behind closed doors, of which we must find the culprit as in Death on the Nile, The crime of the Orient Express… But there is precisely an enigma which remains a mystery in the life of the novelist. On December 4, 1926, the abandoned car of Agatha Christie was discovered by the police and her driver disappeared. For twelve days, the investigators will move heaven and earth to find her. The writer will never tell what really happened. This disappearance will inspire many novels, like The TOappearances, by Gillian Flynn, adapted for the cinema by David Fincher with the film Gone Girl. “8:30 p.m. on Saturday” led the investigation …
And also, the return of a deceased, the price of success …
News> Stromae, the return
The Belgian singer-songwriter and producer Stromae disappeared six years ago from the music scene and the media landscape. Too much light, too much exposure, too much fatigue, the artist, whose real name is Paul Van Haver, knew everything very quickly: a dazzling success, a world tour, 200 concerts a year… He brutally said “stop “in 2015, until this sudden reappearance on October 15, 2021 with the title Health. Stromae has announced ten concert dates, starting in June 2022. The story of a necessary retreat… to come back better.
Bonus> The price of success
Success, yes, but is the price too high? A question that was not born with social networks. Twenty or thirty years ago, great artists like Barbara, Joe Dassin or Jacques Brel also asked themselves …
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– Agatha Christie, the mysteries of a lifetime, by Marie-Hélène Baylac (ed. Perrin).
– Agatha Christie, Duchess of Death, by François Rivière (ed. The Pocket Book).
– An autobiography, by Agatha Christie (ed. The Pocket Book).
– Associates Against Crime, by Agatha Christie (ed. Le Masque).
Non-exhaustive list.
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