Paris Magazine: SYRIA GENERAL DENIES HE ACCUSED LIBYA
BEIRUT -- Syria's military intelligence chief yesterday denied saying that Moslem kidnappers sold a French hostage to Libya, Beirut radio stations reported. State and private radio quoted Brig. Gen. Ghazi Kenaan as saying he never mentioned Libya during an interview with a correspondent for the Paris magazine Le Figaro in the Bekaa Valley town of Zahleh. "Naming Libya by the magazine is an attempt to disturb relations between Syria and that sister country,"...
Paris Magazine: Fatherhood for Depp
LONDON: Actor Johnny Depp, one of Hollywood's wild men, is to be a father.His new girlfriend, French actress and singer Vanessa Paradis, is three months' pregnant, it was reported yesterday.Paradis, a respected actress in France, is best known outside her native country for the 1987 film Joe le Taxi which made her a teenage star.The Paris magazine Voici said Paradis held a party for friends and relatives to announce her pregnancy and has...
Paris Magazine: Paris Aid to Saudis Cited In Ending Mosque Siege
A Paris magazine reported today that Saudi Arabia called in French antiterrorist commandos to help overcome the insurgents who seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca in November.Citing sources in the Middle East, Le Point magazine said today that five gendarmes from France's elite antiterrorist force secretly flew to Saudi Arabia and took charge of 3,000 demoralized Saudi Arabian paratroopers and national guardsmen. The French reorganized the assault plans and provided some new...
Paris Magazine: APRES MEL, LE DELUGE
FRANCE'S SOPHIE MARCEAU HOPES HER BRAVEHEART ROLE MAKES HOLLYWOOD PANT
When she was 13, her first role transformed her from an anonymous, working-class tomboy into, as one Paris magazine put it, "French cinema's little sweetheart." At 16, she won a Cesar, France's most prestigious film award. Today her fellow countrymen compare her with Bardot and Deneuve. But superstar status in Europe isn't enough for Sophie Marceau, 28, the sultry, defiant heroine of Mel Gibson's new movie, Braveheart....