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French Convict The Church Of Scientology Of Fraud, Almost Ban It
10:53PM Ephraim Gadsby | The haughty, stubbornly secular French have convicted the Church of Scientology of fraud. Just for pressuring two women to pay tens of thousands of dollars for spurious Scientological products and services! Victimisation of religion says this oily spokesman. More »
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Hoping To Maintain Reality, French Lawmakers Target Fashion Ads
6:32PM Andrew Belonsky | France has long relied on fashion for its prestige and economy. And fashion relies on advertising. And that advertising has to manipulate a consumer’s aspirations. It’s a delicate, ugly and ultimately international balance. Now its under attack. More »
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12:35AM Brian Moylan | [Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie go to a foreign country and scoop up some baby gerbils while in France last week. Photo via Bauer-Griffin] More »
“But Brad, I Haven’t Adopted Anything In Months“
12:35AM Brian Moylan | [Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie go to a foreign country and scoop up some baby gerbils while in France last week. Photo via Bauer-Griffin] More » We Are A Bit In Love With This Song
8:40AM Jess McGuire | We were listening to the So Frenchy, So Chic compilation yesterday when Yael Naim’s “New Soul” came on, and we were all “Yes! YES! LOVE IT! CUTE AS A BLOODY BUTTON! ALSO, MYSTERIOUSLY DESIRE A VERY THIN LAPTOP!”
We now realise it’s the song from the new Macbook Air advert, which – coincidentally enough – someone was asking us about the other day and we simply offered back a blank face because we hadn’t had a coffee and hadn’t seen the commercial and everything is generally confusing to us at that time of day (before 5pm).
So. Now we’re all aware (hip Francophiles were probably already aware, but whatever) who sings this charming little ditty. Let no one act all sooky over the fact it’s been licensed to The Man as Feist’s “1234″ certainly hasn’t been hurt by the fact it provides the soundtrack to iPod ads, eBay ads, etc etc etc.
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It’s Time To Learn About The Fascinating And Colourful Love Life Of The French President.
8:20AM Jess McGuire | Not only is he one sexy looking right wing motherfucker, but it seems French President Nicolas Sarkozy is “tapping” the “ass” of one fine looking filly fille, model/musician Carla Bruni. Sure, Carla’s had starfucker cred for a while, counting Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger amongst her many conquests, but nabbing the chiseled Sarkozy is surely a pleasing highbrow notch on the ol’ Christian Lacroix belt.
The Age has investigated their lusty relationship.
Suava in mirrored aviator sunglasses, French President Nicolas Sarkozy was more George Clooney than Charles de Gaulle as he canoodled with his new lover, Carla Bruni, on the banks of the Nile last month.
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