Beauvoir & V. in a C/c atholic Man's World

alice wellintown alicewellintown at gmail.com
Tue Aug 10 08:32:27 CDT 2010


don't forget zmone & shemoanzabitz (husband and wife team of
nazi-hunting lawyers, krooklyn, new york). it's funny to see them, now
down in the fq, fighting for the saints & winers of the world

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 1:44 AM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> can't help remembering being tickled by somebody's imaginary diary,
> describing how he invited Simone Simon, Simone Weil, and Simone de
> Beauvoir to lunch, for a hoot...
>
>
> checking my facts:
> Simone Weil was the Christian mystic, (Wikipedia sez possible Catholic
> baptism before her death) with like a pretty deep and respectable
> philosophy (many paragraphs worth in Wikipedia), and also somewhat of
> a hunger-artist...
>   her progress is the one that sorta reminded me of V.
>
> Simone Simon - actress (Cat People), "alleged by her secretary" (while
> this person was on trial for extorting money from her) "to have given
> a golden key to her boudoir to any man she was interested in,
> including George Gershwin"
>
> Simone de Beauvoir - beau of Sartre, feminist, author
>
> (then there's Simone Signoret, who was in some movies that look pretty
> interesting also)
>



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