Re: [OT] Waiting for Catherine Deneuve (in the rain, with an umbrella)

On Sat, 15 Jun 2024 19:49:35 -0600, John Savard wrote:

I remember, when I was a wee lad, a commercial came on the television.
I think it may have been for Chanel perfume. It began with Catherine
Deneuve saying "I am Catherine Deneuve".
 
My mother reacted to that by perceiving it as vain and egotistical. Who
was Catherine Deneuve supposed to be anyways?
 
Well, I hadn't heard of her either, but I simply assumed she must have
been a famous actress or model of whom I happened not to have heard.
 
I never gave the matter much thought. But today the song "I Will Wait
for You" came into my mind, and I went to look up performances of it. It
turns out that it was from the movie "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg" (The
Umbrellas of Cherbourg), and not only was this very acclaimed movie one
in which Catherine Deneuve appeared, but, in fact, she was in the scene
in which this song, with its original French lyric, was sung in the
movie.
 
John Savard

A couple of things. First, if you can recall the year of your
mother's remark, we could figure out if she should have heard of
Catherine Deneuve, based on the star's career arc as gleaned
from Wikipedia, et. al.

Second, aspects of your posting gave some of us, I'm sure, an
opportunity to think about Samuel Beckett.

Finally, let me express my gratitude to you for keeping this
newsgroup from becoming purely a gumball machine for dispensing SF
reviews, given that, in the past couple of years, some other
regular OTers have faded away.