Attn: Brownie

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

someone sent me a link 2 the albert alyer website and was reading your albert ayler-releated story: in which, you mentioned that at one of the concerts u saw CATHERINE DENEUVE herself there!!!! did u ever meet her, or take her picture. screw albert ayler, i wanna know about catherine!!!!! did u ever meet her

[brownie]

chewy, I had a brief one-way love affair with Catherine Deneuve

Met her when she was a sweet little 16 (she was a brunette then). Good friend Marcel Romano introduced me to her and her elder sister Françoise Dorléac when the two were taking a walk opposite the Club Saint-Germain back in 1959.

Romano (he is the one who brought Miles Davis, the Art Blakey Messengers, Bud Powell and so many others to the Club) had plans to direct a film and wanted the Dorléac sisters to have a major part in it.

The film never materialized!

I was drafted shortly after and sent to Algeria where I remained until the end of that war in the Summer of 1962. Being a bad soldier, I was never allowed to return to France during the full length of military service. Was only allowed a couple of short leaves in Algiers. On my very first leave I noted that one of the cinema houses showed a film with the Dorléac sisters. A pretty bad one called 'Les Portes Claquent'. But I was so enthralled with Deneuve that I watched the films several times!

At that Albert Ayler concert, she was there with her then husband David Bailey. No idea how she liked the music!

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

W-O-W

u met her at 16 an u met her sister too- thats out of control

[John L]

I had a brief one-way love affair with Catherine Deneuve

So did I, although it wasn't so brief and I never got to meet her. (Talk about a classy woman!)

[J.A.W.]

chewy, I had a brief one-way love affair with Catherine Deneuve

Met her when she was a sweet little 16 (she was a brunette then). Good friend Marcel Romano introduced me to her and her elder sister Françoise Dorléac when the two were taking a walk opposite the Club Saint-Germain back in 1959.

Romano (he is the one who brought Miles Davis, the Art Blakey Messengers, Bud Powell and so many others to the Club) had plans to direct a film and wanted the Dorléac sisters to have a major part in it.

The film never materialized!

I was drafted shortly after and sent to Algeria where I remained until the end of that war in the Summer of 1962. Being a bad soldier, I was never allowed to return to France during the full length of military service. Was only allowed a couple of short leaves in Algiers. On my very first leave I noted that one of the cinema houses showed a film with the Dorléac sisters. A pretty bad one called 'Les Portes Claquent'. But I was so enthralled with Deneuve that I watched the films several times!

At that Albert Ayler concert, she was there with her then husband David Bailey. No idea how she liked the music!

Françoise Dorléac was a beauty too - remember Roman Polanski's Cul-de-sac? She died in a car crash when she was 25, in 1967.

Great story, Guy!

Edited November 24, 2006 by J.A.W.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

cul de sac was the worst movie ive ever seen ever- debut speaking performance of jackie bisset aside.....

[brownie]

Françoise Dorléac

She was superb in François Truffaut's 'La Peau Douce'!