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Sean says...

So Mom (aka Jacque) came to visit this weekend. Stef and I ordered Chinese right off and we spent the evening oddly enough listening to people singing in French or at least in French accents. Why? Who knows!!!

But of course the Gigi soundtrack album I have inveritably came out and went into the CD player!  Gigi, for those not familiar, is the adaption of the French novel by Collette and a stage play (originally starring Audrey Hepburn) that became a 10X Oscar winner (including Best Pic) in 1958. It is also Mom's favorite (or one of her favorites) musicals. Damn that Louis Jourdan!  He is so charming in this film while Maurice Chevalier neatly walks a tightrope of creepy old man and adorable gentleman with his bad boy behavior. Love of course conquers all in mistress laden Paris, but such a fun film. Granted the film benefited from Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's own My Fair Lady (which was being developed at the time). If you love musicals this is one worth taking a look at. Well done and fun.

Gigi