Charlie Rose

JohnGelles  07/08/2011 03:14 PM Report

Listening to Elaine, I cannot believe she will offer me less in her book than the prose she used in this conversation. Hollow stereotypes -- I think not. The solid kind of stereotype may be the character more real in fiction than we ever meet in life. I hope I read the book and have reason to remember to tell Antoine to read it too -- not in Paris but in NYC.

charlizecourriers  07/08/2011 03:06 PM Report

Unfortunately, Mr.Rose did not ask this guest if she has read Baudrillard's book, also by the same name. So much for her remark about Rose's knowledge of the French! My guess is that neither has read J.B.'s book, nor would either understand much. C'est la vie!

antoinenyc2011  07/08/2011 11:23 AM Report

Sweet, but it is all about stereotypes.

doodah  07/07/2011 05:02 PM Report

... she also said, they're (the french) are a bunch of Sissys.

doodah  07/07/2011 04:59 PM Report

... but no bath or shower. .. Grandma told me they don't bathe; hence, the emphasis on perfume

doodah  07/07/2011 04:56 PM Report

... And Wine!

JohnGelles  07/07/2011 02:29 PM Report

CR' guest was so enthusiastic and interesting on the surface I was especially thankful to CR for introducing her to me. I went to Wikipedia for more abut the lady.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Elaine F. Sciolino

Born Buffalo, New York

Occupation journalist, author

Spouse(s) Andrew R. Plump

Children Alessandra and Gabriela

Notable credit(s) The New York Times; The Outlaw State, Persian Mirrors, and La Seduction. (books)

Elaine Sciolino is a Paris correspondent and former Paris bureau chief for The New York Times, writing from France since 2002.

Her new book, La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life, will be published by Henry Holt /Times Books in June 2011.

She began her journalism career as a researcher at Newsweek magazine in New York, later becoming national correspondent in Chicago, foreign correspondent in Paris, bureau chief in Rome and roving international correspondent.

Sciolino was the Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in 1982-1983, the first woman to receive that honor. She joined The New York Times in 1984, where she has held a number of posts, including United Nations’ bureau chief, Central Intelligence Agency correspondent and chief diplomatic correspondent &mdash the first woman to hold that post.

Her first book, The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein’s Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis, was published by John Wiley & Sons in 1991 and was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection.

Her next book, Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran, was first published by The Free Press in 2000 and was updated in a new edition in 2005. It was awarded the 2001 New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism and the Overseas Press Club Cornelius Ryan Citation for nonfiction. Sciolino was also honored by Columbia University’s Encyclopedia Iranica project in 2001 “for presenting the best of Iran to the world.”

For the fall term 2010, she served as a Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University.

In 2010, she was decorated a chevalier of the Legion of Honor for her “special contribution” to the friendship between France and the United States.

Born in Buffalo, New York, she graduated summa cum laude from Canisius College in 1970 and received a master’s degree in European History from New York University in 1971. She holds honorary doctorate degrees from Syracuse University, Canisius College and Dowling College.

She is one of the only non-French members of Femmes Forum, a Paris-based private club of 200 of the leading women living in France.

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I have to buy the book. I'm now a lousy reader -- but just holding it in my hand may be enough.

Elaine has a special knowing mind that convinces me in moments to listen and say thanks. I have only been to Paris several times. Always to eat and even to get on a subway (in 1955) after missing the experience for several months living in Wiesbaden Germany.

Because I have a nasal voice, many Parisians complimented my high school French.

In Paris I visited the most beautiful synagogue I have ever been in. On the net I found this description of it: "... a second well-known synagogue in the district, is the Temple Victoire, located on rue de la Victoire 44; it is also known as the Rothschild synagogue. Opened in 1874, the synagogue has special seats located on the bimah for the chief rabbis of Paris and France. The rabbis leading the service still wear Napoleanic -era costumes."

My best friend at the time was Arnaldo Fioramonti, now in Heaven, then married to French citizen Simone. Because he was Italian we often ate at a delightful Italian restaurant where huge tubs of French butter were at your table for the best bread and butter I've ever known.

When I was in high school France was at war with Germany from behind the Maginot Line. One of my teachers (a communist at the moment) blamed France and England for Hitler and the war. I argued in favor of France against Germany and Finland against Russia. This being America, I was free to express that opinion.

When I was of average height, de Gaulle and Galbraith towered over other world leaders -- and I admired them both. I did envy their height. But I would have done better to envy their brains.

Now, thanks to CR, I have an American lady of average height to envy for her summa cum laude degree.

doodah  07/07/2011 12:28 PM Report

Ah France! Paris! Cunnilingus! Cheese! So Grand!

REMant  07/07/2011 11:23 AM Report

Americans approach sex like a Big Mac, life as a trip to Disneyland, France as a museum, I suppose. But the French are not above doing a little advertising themselves. My mother suggested Sarkozy hired the maid to get Strauss-Kahn. The French nobility may be best known for their dalliances, but it was widespread throughout Europe, for as long as the aristocracy reigned.