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| Beauty and Beast: the book Dominique Strauss-Kahn wanted to ban | Beauty and Beast: the book Dominique Strauss-Kahn wanted to ban |
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| Appearance: In all good retailers. | Appearance: In all good retailers. |
| Ah, yes, this is one of my favourite films. Gaston … the talking candelabra … Be Our Guest … love it! Has a remake just come out? No, you're thinking of Disney's The Beauty and The Beast, based on the French fairytale La Belle et La Bête. I'm talking about Belle et Bête, or Beauty and Beast. It's rather different. | Ah, yes, this is one of my favourite films. Gaston … the talking candelabra … Be Our Guest … love it! Has a remake just come out? No, you're thinking of Disney's The Beauty and The Beast, based on the French fairytale La Belle et La Bête. I'm talking about Belle et Bête, or Beauty and Beast. It's rather different. |
| How different? Well, the Disney movie is about a sweet-natured girl who falls in love with an enchanted prince despite his disfigurement. This is a memoir-cum-novel by lawyer and essayist Marcela Iacub, in which she denounces her former lover, the disgraced French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who owns no magic furniture or tableware. | How different? Well, the Disney movie is about a sweet-natured girl who falls in love with an enchanted prince despite his disfigurement. This is a memoir-cum-novel by lawyer and essayist Marcela Iacub, in which she denounces her former lover, the disgraced French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who owns no magic furniture or tableware. |
| I see. So less romantic, basically. Basically. The book describes how last year Iacub had a seven-month affair with an unnamed public figure, whom she later identified as Strauss-Kahn. The man is described as "king of the pigs", "an artist of the sewers, a poet of filth and abjection" and is graphically described in several fictionalised sex scenes. | I see. So less romantic, basically. Basically. The book describes how last year Iacub had a seven-month affair with an unnamed public figure, whom she later identified as Strauss-Kahn. The man is described as "king of the pigs", "an artist of the sewers, a poet of filth and abjection" and is graphically described in several fictionalised sex scenes. |
| Some people would find that flattering. Strauss-Kahn didn't. He and his wife sued Iacub for invasion of privacy, along with Le Nouvel Observateur, a magazine that published extracts. They demanded damages, a front-page apology and the suppression of the book. And they kind of won. | Some people would find that flattering. Strauss-Kahn didn't. He and his wife sued Iacub for invasion of privacy, along with Le Nouvel Observateur, a magazine that published extracts. They demanded damages, a front-page apology and the suppression of the book. And they kind of won. |
| Kind of? They got damages, a half-page apology, and a ruling that a card explaining their point of view must be inserted into every copy. | Kind of? They got damages, a half-page apology, and a ruling that a card explaining their point of view must be inserted into every copy. |
| But the book has been published anyway? It has. The magazine said it was art, you see. | But the book has been published anyway? It has. The magazine said it was art, you see. |
| Those French, eh? If they're not careful they'll get a reputation as a bunch of incorrigible shagger-intellectuals. And it's ironic, all this, because Iacub and Strauss-Kahn only met in the first place because she wrote several articles defending him against rape charges, which were later dropped. | Those French, eh? If they're not careful they'll get a reputation as a bunch of incorrigible shagger-intellectuals. And it's ironic, all this, because Iacub and Strauss-Kahn only met in the first place because she wrote several articles defending him against rape charges, which were later dropped. |
| Ironic, but as you say, not very romantic. No. Strauss-Kahn told journalists outside the court: "I just want one thing ..." | Ironic, but as you say, not very romantic. No. Strauss-Kahn told journalists outside the court: "I just want one thing ..." |
| I thought that was the problem! "... to be left alone." | I thought that was the problem! "... to be left alone." |
| Do say: "If those scenes are factually inexact, they are, however, emotionally true. You sometimes have to lie to tell the truth. Truth is not reality." | Do say: "If those scenes are factually inexact, they are, however, emotionally true. You sometimes have to lie to tell the truth. Truth is not reality." |
| Don't say: "Tell that to the judge." | Don't say: "Tell that to the judge." |
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