COVID-19: France, Spain Shut Down; California Asks Wineries to Stop Tastings
As COVID-19 cases exponentially increase in the U.S. and Western Europe, leaders impose rules on restaurants and bars in effort to decrease infection rates
Across the United States and Western Europe this past weekend, the COVID-19 pandemic continued to grow, spurring leaders to impose new restrictions to attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Less than a week after Italy’s government shut down almost all schools and businesses, asking citizens to self-quarantine, France and Spain followed suit.
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Leave Me Alone
By: Michael Stevenson | Pas de Merde
At our family dinner at my sister’s, we sang the single most horrible song of the Seventies, which is Helen Reddy’s “Ruby Red Dress” – a singalong about a homeless woman who talks to herself and just wants to be left alone, due to the trauma she experienced as a younger woman.
Sing along, if you wish:
“Big ole ruby red dress wanders round the town
Talkin’ to herself now, sometimes sitten down
Don’t you get too close now, ruby runs away
Poor ole ruby red dress born on a sorry day
I can hear her say
Leave me alone, won’t you leave me alone
Please leave me alone now, leave me alone
Leave me alone, please leave me alone, yes leave me
Leave me alone won’t you leave me alone
Lily-Rose Depp Explains How to Do a French Accent
There’s a benefit to being French-American besides citizenship: knowing how to do the perfect French, American, and French-American accent.
Actress and model Lily-Rose Depp, daughter of American actor Johnny Depp and French actress and singer Vanessa Paradis, does an impeccable imitation of a French person trying to speak English, which she shows off to Vanity Fair in this video.
Depp, of course, offers a few tips for how to do a French accent while speaking English.
“Rs are distinctly very French,” is her first piece of advice, followed by “the Ws aren’t quite as articulated as the Rs or the Th [sound] are.” The video is full of example phrases, and even how to say them with different emotions.
The most important element to sound like a French person speaking English? “The French have a sound for their pauses which is just kind of ‘euhhh,’” she explains.
Source: Lily-Rose Depp Explains How to Do a French Accent – Frenchly
Second album de “Birds on a Wire”
This morning, Rosemary Standley and Dom la Neña, the Birds on a Wire duo, deliver their second album “Ramages”, as tasty as the first…
This morning, Rosemary Standley and Dom la Neña, the Birds on a Wire duo , deliver their second album, as tasty as the first. “Manouk & co”, by André Manoukian (7h22 – February 26, 2020) All the chronicles of André Manoukian on https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/erudit-doudam
Source: Le 2ème album de Birds on a Wire
Does Polanski’s César award highlight a deep problem in French society?
The elite world of French cinema is divided over the 45th César Awards ceremony, the French equivalent of the Oscars. A movie by the controversial and divisive Franco-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski won three awards, including the coveted Best Director prize. This was a bitter pill to swallow for many, including feminist groups who had called for a boycott of the ceremony. The incident once again ignited a fierce debate about the question of “separating the man from the artist”. Does this episode highlight a deep-rooted problem in French society? And are things slowly starting to change?
Source: Does Polanski’s César award highlight a deep problem in French society? – French connections
