Entertainment & Arts
Kenneth Anger, best known for telling no-holds-barred tales of Tinseltown’s seamier scandals in his books “Hollywood Babylon” and “Hollywood Babylon II,” showed a kinder, gentler side Friday as he paid homage to Jean Cocteau.
Feb. 20, 1989
“I don’t know whether to say thank you or I’m sorry” is the way Deborah Slater’s tribute to Jean Cocteau began at the Gallery Theatre in Barnsdall Park last weekend.
June 22, 1989
Picasso is reported to have said that if 20th-Century art were described as a comet, he was the head and Jean Cocteau the tail.
Dec. 26, 1987
Gabrielle (Coco) Chanel and Jean Cocteau--close friends who fostered each other’s creativity during their lifetimes--were “reunited” Sunday when the Chanel Boutique unveiled an exhibit of Cocteau’s art.
Nov. 11, 1993
“Fame is the consequence of a misunderstanding.
Feb. 13, 1989
Ian Abercrombie did not try to look like Jean Cocteau in his one-man impersonation of the French poet, artist, playwright and film maker last weekend.
June 28, 1989
Archives
OPIUM by Jean Cocteau, translated by Margaret Crosland, (Peter Owen: $14.95, illustrated) .
Nov. 18, 1990
Books
To the Editor: I do not know where Edmund White in his review of Jean-Yves Tadie’s life of Proust (Book Review, Aug. 6) conceived his notion that Francis Steegmuller, my late husband, in his biography of Jean Cocteau, “pretends that the great love of Cocteau’s life was the Princess Natalie Paley.”
Aug. 20, 2000
Movies
In between the stark ravishment of 1946’s “Beauty and the Beast” and 1950’s edgy enchantment “Orpheus,” France’s art-hyphenate master Jean Cocteau filmed an adaptation of his ‘30s play “Les Parents Terribles.”
July 12, 2018
Jean Cocteau has received a bit more ink than usual this year thanks to the No. 1 bestseller “The Da Vinci Code,” in which novelist Dan Brown asserts that the famed avant-garde French artist was a member, along with Leonardo Da Vinci, Isaac Newton and Victor Hugo, of a secret society called the Priory of Scion.
Sept. 19, 2003