One of my favorite films is the 1986
Jean de Florette,
so when its star Gérard Depardieu was suddenly all over the
newspapers here I was sucked into what is going on in the French
economy. It turns out it’s the same thing that’s going on in the
American economy. Depardieu, who is a household name in France,
will no longer keep a household there, having relocated a stone’s
throw over the border in the Belgian hamlet of Néchin, which,
although it does not have a theater, does not have
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