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         <pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 05:34:13 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>On a personal note...</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://emmanuelle.net/photos/david_e.jpg" style="float:left; margin:10px;"><div class="eng">Congratulations David Ehrenstein! We ran into our favorite American movie critic, gayxpert and francophile <a href="http://www.ehrensteinland.com/">David</a> at the <a href="http://www.zocalola.org/#may15">Zócalo "Deconstructing McCain" event last night</a> in Downtown L.A. and spoke with him <a href="http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2008/05/15/sudden_equal_ri.html">and Amy about the gay marriage decision</a>. David said that he had <em>"just asked his lover of 38 years to marry him. And he said</em> "Sure."" And he's not very worried about the CA Supreme Court's decision being overturned: <em>"Did you read the whole ruling? It's very very strong."</em> More details probably soon on <a href="http://fablog.ehrensteinland.com/">David's Fablog</a> or gay website <a href="http://www.towleroad.com/">Towleroad</a>, in which <a href="http://www.towleroad.com/2008/05/california-su-1.html">David broke the good news</a>.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Oui au mariage gay en Californie /  Yes to gay marriage in California</title>
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De Los Angeles où je passe quelques jours, les partisans du mariage gay remercient San Francisco d'avoir conduit à la décision historique d'aujourd'hui: suite à des plaintes de couples gays et de la ville du nord elle-même, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/15/BAGAVNC5K.DTL&tsp=1">la Cour Supreme de Californie vient d'autoriser le mariage gay</a>, de facto, en déclarant inconstitutionnelle l'interdiction des mariages entre personnes du même sexe.

On aimerait féliciter tous les couples gay qui auront leur mariage enfin reconnu ou auront la possibilité de s'épouser dans 30 jours (<a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/05/antonios-ready.html">le maire de L.A. les invitent à s'inscrire</a>!) , mais  il est sans doute trop tôt pour se réjouir sans entraves: <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-anti16-2008may16,0,7598579.story">il est très probable que les Californiens soient appelés à voter en novembre par référendum pour interdire de nouveau le mariage gay</a> en déclenchant le passage d'un amendement constitutionnel qui invaliderait la décision d'aujourd'hui. Or, hélas, dans leur ensemble, les Californiens ne sont pas aussi progressistes que ce que l'on pense: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_22_(2000)">en 2000, plus de 61% des électeurs avaient rejeté le mariage gay par référendum.</a> 

<ul><li>Le prof de droit Eugene Volokh analyse <a href="http://volokh.com/">la décision historique d'aujourdhui en détail sur son blog.</a></li>

<li>Guide: <a href="http://gocalifornia.about.com/cs/californiamenu/ht/cagetmarried.htm">Comment se marier en Californie</a></li></ul>
Photo Getty Images.

<p><div class="eng">From Los Angeles, where I'm spending a few days, gay marriage proponents are thanking San Francisco for leading the way towards today's historical ruling: following lawsuits brought by gay couples and the city itself, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/15/BAGAVNC5K.DTL&tsp=1">California Supreme court has legalized gay marriage</a>, by finding it unconstitutional for California law to restrict marriage to heterosexual couples.

We'd love to congratulate all the gay couples who, finally, will get their unofficial marriage recognized or will be able to get hitched in 30 days, (<a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/05/antonios-ready.html">L.A. 's mayor invites them to register for a license</a>!) but it's probably too early to rejoice without any reservations:Indeed, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-anti16-2008may16,0,7598579.story">there is a strong chance that California voters will be weighing a ballot initiative to ban same-sex mariage in Novembre</a> by voting for a state constitutional amendment that would overturn today's decision. And unfortunately, Californians as a whole are not as progressive as what you'd expect: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_22_(2000)">in 2000, more than 61% of voters rejected gay marriage.</a> 

<ul><li>Law prof. Eugene Volokh analyses <a href="http://volokh.com/">today's historical decision in detail on his blog.</a></li>

<li>Guide: <a href="http://gocalifornia.about.com/cs/californiamenu/ht/cagetmarried.htm">How to get married in Californie</a></li></ul>
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         <title>Dallas, 30 ans après  / Dallas, 30 years later</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.emmanuelle.net/photos/JR-bills.jpg" style="float:left; margin:10px;"><a href="http://www.emmanuelle.net/2007/12/en_route_to_dc_day_4_dallas_th.html">Notre espion en tongs à Austin</a> nous apprend que le musée d'histoire du Texas va consacrer une grande exposition à l'une de des séries télé préférées de notre enfance, particulièrement exotique dans la France de Mitterrand: <a href="http://www.ultimatedallas.com/">Dallas</a>! 

<p><div class="eng"><a href="http://www.emmanuelle.net/2007/12/en_route_to_dc_day_4_dallas_th.html">Our thongs-wearing spy in Austin</a> tells us that the Texas history museum will soon unveil a big exhibition about one of our favorite childhood TV series, which was particularly exotic in Mitterrand's Socialist France: <a href="http://www.ultimatedallas.com/">Dallas</a>! 
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J'ignore si cette expo va creuser l'un des aspects les plus intéressants de Dallas: son rôle dans le rejet du communisme en Europe de l'Est, particulièrement en Roumanie. A lire: cet article de <a href="http://www.mattwelch.com/warblog.html">Matt</a> et <a href="http://www.reason.com/staff/show/129.html">Nick</a> dans le Washington Post, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042503103_pf.html">How Dallas won the cold war</a>, qui a déclenché l'ire de plusieurs Reaganiens <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042503103_Comments.html">dans les commentaires</a>. Extrait du papier: 

<p><div class="eng">I don't know yet if this exhibition will explore one of the most interesting aspects of Dallas: its role in the rejection of Communism in Eastern Europe, first and foremost in Romania. Read this opinion piece by <a href="http://www.mattwelch.com/warblog.html">Matt</a> and <a href="http://www.reason.com/staff/show/129.html">Nick</a> in the Washington Post, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042503103_pf.html">How Dallas won the cold war</a>, and the subsequent  <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042503103_Comments.html">comments by furious Reganites</a>. Article snippet: </div></p>

<blockquote><em>"Cette vision caricaturale de la libre-entreprise et du train de vie qui en découlait regorgeait de sexe et d'alcool, offrant un cocktail irrésistible aux Américains déprimés par la stagflation mais également aux téléspectateurs de la France à l'Union Soviétique en passant par la Roumanie de Ceaucescu. 

Dallas était bien plus qu'une série télé. C'était une force culturelle capable de changer l'atmosphère."</em></blockquote>

<blockquote><div class="eng"><em>"It was the booze-and-sex-soaked caricature of free enterprise and executive lifestyles that proved irresistible not just to stagflation-weary Americans but viewers from France to the Soviet Union to Ceausescu's Romania.

"Dallas" wasn't simply a television show. It was an atmosphere-altering cultural force."</em></div></blockquote>

En Europe de l'Est, où plusieurs générations vivaient souvent sous le même toit dans les années 80, les fans de la série appréciaient de voir cette famille de rois du pétrole vivre dans la même maison (chose hautement improbable dans ce milieu aux Etats-Unis), diner ensemble et se mêler des affaires des uns et des autres. Le succès phénoménal de la série dans une centaine de pays reste sinon difficile à expliquer (le livre d'une chercheuse Néerlandaise, <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=tEEOAAAAQAAJ&dq=book+watching+dallas&pg=PP1&ots=l_6tJa5TTm&sig=w7meXOgyFGvamxQLF4zKY2I-9MQ&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fq%3Dbook%2Bwatching%2Bdallas%26ie%3Dutf-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26client%3Dfirefox-a&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail">Watching Dallas</a>, a tenté de percer le mystère et une anthropologue française <a href="http://www.religiologiques.uqam.ca/recen/dup.html">a comparé Dallas à un poème d'Homère</a>...) 

<p><div class="eng">In Eastern Europe, where it was common for members of several generations of one family to live under the same roof in the '80s, fans of the series enjoyed watching this wealthy petrol dynasty live in the same ranch (quite improbably for the United States), have dinner together and get intimately involved in each other's affairs. Dallas' phenomenal success in a hundred countries is still pretty hard to explain: (a Dutch academic researcher tried to to do it in a book <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=tEEOAAAAQAAJ&dq=book+watching+dallas&pg=PP1&ots=l_6tJa5TTm&sig=w7meXOgyFGvamxQLF4zKY2I-9MQ&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fq%3Dbook%2Bwatching%2Bdallas%26ie%3Dutf-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26client%3Dfirefox-a&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=one-book-with-thumbnail">Watching Dallas</a>, and a French anthropologist <a href="http://www.religiologiques.uqam.ca/recen/dup.html">has written about the similitudes between Dallas and Homer's poems</a>...) </div></p>

<a href="http://emmanuelle.buzznet.com/user/photos/southfork-dallas-ranch/?id=26122661" ><img src="http://buzznet-18.vo.llnwd.net/assets/users16/emmanuelle/default/Southfork_the_Dallas_Ranch--feat-msg-119888794652.jpg" border="0" alt="Southfork the Dallas Ranch - Photo Hosted at Buzznet" title="Southfork the Dallas Ranch - Photo Hosted at Buzznet" style="float:left; margin:10px;"/></a>Pour avoir redécouvert la première saison de la série, je trouve que Dallas résiste curieusement bien à la "revoyure" et reste étrangement captivante dans toute sa gloire kitsch. Au fil des ans, j'ai acquis l'avantage culturel douteux d'avoir à la fois visité le ranch de Southfork au Texas ET <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/12/living-replica-of-se.html">"Southforscu," en Roumanie</a>, une réplique érigée par un mafieux inspiré par JR, dans une plaine perdue au milieu du pays. Ailleurs sur le Web:

<p><div class="eng">As we're currently re-viewing the first season of Dallas, I find that the series holds up surprisingly well and remains curiously captivating in all its tacky glory. Throughout the years, I've acquired the dubious cultural advantage of having both visited the  Southfork ranch in Texas and <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/12/living-replica-of-se.html">"Southforscu" in Romania</a>, a replica erected by a local mafioso inspired by JR, in a plain in the middle of nowhere. Elsewhere on the Web:</div></p>

<ul><li>Ce blogueur français déclare Dallas "série visionnaire" et <a href="http://zeke.blog.mongenie.com/index/p/2007/06/397611">dresse une comparaison troublante de la famille Bush et de la famille Ewing</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2006/03/18/the-curse-of-dallas-89520-16828855">The Curse of Dallas:</a> ou "que sont-ils devenus?" Le tragique destin de nombreux acteurs de la série à la gloire du capitalisme (dont plusieurs échecs entrepreneriaux cuisants, comme le business de vente de perruques et de toupets de Charlene Tilton, alias Lucy!)</li>

<li>L'expo: <a href="http://www.thestoryoftexas.com/the_museum/coming_soon.html">Dallas: Power & Passion on Primetime TV</a>
31 mai - 14 septembre 2008 
Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum dans le centre-ville d'Austin, Texas.</li></ul>

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<ul><li>This French blogger calls Dallas "visionary" and 
<a href="http://zeke.blog.mongenie.com/index/p/2007/06/397611">finds a troubling analogy between the Ewings and the Bush family.</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2006/03/18/the-curse-of-dallas-89520-16828855">The Curse of Dallas:</a> or "where are they now?" The tragic fate of many actors in the series that celebrated capitalism (several of their entrepreneurial initiatives have crashed, among which the wig and toupet business of Charlene Tilton, aka Lucy!)</li>

<li><a href="http://www.thestoryoftexas.com/the_museum/coming_soon.html">Dallas: Power & Passion on Primetime TV</a>
May 31 - September 14, 2008 
Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in downtown Austin, Texas.</li></ul></div></p>]]></description>
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         <title>Guillemette soulève un tabou français / Guillemette lifts a French taboo</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://emmanuelle.buzznet.com/user/photos/unbebetouteseulecouv-5/?id=35172491" ><img src="http://buzznet-00.vo.llnwd.net/assets/users16/emmanuelle/default/msg-120960740638.jpg" border="0" alt="unbebetouteseulecouv 5 - Photo Hosted at Buzznet" title="unbebetouteseulecouv 5 - Photo Hosted at Buzznet" style="float:left; margin:10px;"/></a>J'avais manqué cet article de samedi dans Libération: Guillemette Faure, notre <a href="http://guillemette.typepad.com/">blogueuse française préférée, ex-new yorkaise</a> désormais rapatriée <a href="http://www.rue89.com/user/guillemette-faure">rue 89</a> à Paris, fait l'objet d'<a href="http://www.liberation.fr/transversales/portraits/323281.FR.php">un portrait bien croqué</a> à l'occasion de la parution de son nouveau livre "<a href="http://editions.flammarion.com/catalogue/fiche.php?l=a%3A12%3A%7Bs%3A2%3A%22st%22%3Bs%3A4%3A%22tout%22%3Bs%3A8%3A%22searchId%22%3Bs%3A44%3A%22coQ129TzQZwbWa9rpxm2egvdbnhE5kV0F6NlqZPQ7GM%3D%22%3Bs%3A1%3A%22p%22%3Bi%3A1%3Bs%3A1%3A%22s%22%3Bs%3A8%3A%22DatParut%22%3Bs%3A4%3A%22mois%22%3BN%3Bs%3A7%3A%22editeur%22%3BN%3Bs%3A15%3A%22STEPTYPE_RAPIDE%22%3Bs%3A17%3A%22guillemette+faure%22%3Bs%3A14%3A%22STEPTYPE_TITRE%22%3BN%3Bs%3A15%3A%22STEPTYPE_AUTEUR%22%3BN%3Bs%3A7%3A%22isbnean%22%3BN%3Bs%3A10%3A%22tracktheme%22%3BN%3Bs%3A9%3A%22trackedit%22%3BN%3B%7D&i=978-2-08-120509-3&nonotice=2007521461">Un bébé toute seule</a>." Elle y raconte dans son style direct habituel ses tentatives pour concevoir un bébé dans une clinique de Manhattan. 

Ici, aux Etats-Unis, les femmes célibataires (très rarement par choix, faut-il le préciser?) ont accès aux banques de sperme et à la procréation assistée, contrairement à la France où il faut être en couple hétérosexuel et où règne <em>«un regard plus conservateur sur la famille, qu’on imagine toujours façon Ricoré» </em> selon Guillemette. J'ai hâte de recevoir son livre, <a href="http://www.amazon.fr/b%C3%A9b%C3%A9-toute-seule-Guillemette-Faure/dp/2081205092/ref=pd_sxp_f_pt">par voie d'Amazon France</a>, et d'en reparler sur ce blog avec l'auteur. 

<p><div class="eng">A story that I had missed somehow in the French daily Libération on Saturday: Guillemette Faure, our <a href="http://guillemette.typepad.com/">favorite French blogger formerly in New York</a> and now repatriated at <a href="http://www.rue89.com/user/guillemette-faure">rue 89</a> in Paris, is portrayed in <a href="http://www.liberation.fr/transversales/portraits/323281.FR.php">a very well-brushed feature</a>  (click here for <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.liberation.fr%2Ftransversales%2Fportraits%2F323281.FR.php&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8">a crude Google translation</a>) as she's in the news for publishing her new book, "<a href="http://editions.flammarion.com/catalogue/fiche.php?l=a%3A12%3A%7Bs%3A2%3A%22st%22%3Bs%3A4%3A%22tout%22%3Bs%3A8%3A%22searchId%22%3Bs%3A44%3A%22coQ129TzQZwbWa9rpxm2egvdbnhE5kV0F6NlqZPQ7GM%3D%22%3Bs%3A1%3A%22p%22%3Bi%3A1%3Bs%3A1%3A%22s%22%3Bs%3A8%3A%22DatParut%22%3Bs%3A4%3A%22mois%22%3BN%3Bs%3A7%3A%22editeur%22%3BN%3Bs%3A15%3A%22STEPTYPE_RAPIDE%22%3Bs%3A17%3A%22guillemette+faure%22%3Bs%3A14%3A%22STEPTYPE_TITRE%22%3BN%3Bs%3A15%3A%22STEPTYPE_AUTEUR%22%3BN%3Bs%3A7%3A%22isbnean%22%3BN%3Bs%3A10%3A%22tracktheme%22%3BN%3Bs%3A9%3A%22trackedit%22%3BN%3B%7D&i=978-2-08-120509-3&nonotice=2007521461">Un bébé toute seule</a>" (Making a baby alone.) In her direct, no-nonsense style, she writes about her several attempts to conceive a child at a Manhattan clinic.

Here in the U.S., single women (very rarely as a first choice, in case it's even worth mentioning) can access sperm banks and medically assisted procreation. That's not the case in France, where these methods are only available to heterosexual couples. In general, France has "a more conservative view on family, that people only envision like in a commercial for the breakfast drink Ricoré," according to Guillemette. I'm eager to receive her book <a href="http://www.amazon.fr/b%C3%A9b%C3%A9-toute-seule-Guillemette-Faure/dp/2081205092/ref=pd_sxp_f_pt"> by way of Amazon France</a>, and to talk about it with the author on this very blog.</div></p>]]></description>
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         <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.emmanuelle.net/photos/tom.jpg" style="float:left; margin:10px;"><a href="http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/">Crazy Days and Nigths</a>, ce blogueur anonyme ultra-addictif de Los Angeles qui se présente comme un avocat des stars est en train d'étoffer sa rubrique "<a href="http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/search/label/Scientology">Scientologie</a>" avec des articles fort intéressants sur la secte à Hollywood. Il renvoit notamment à <a href="http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks">Wikileaks</a>, ce site collaboratif crée par des dissidents chinois. Il est devenu <a href="https://www.reason.com/blog/show/123542.html">le point de rendez-vous de "whistle blowers" du monde entier</a>, dont d'anciens membres de l'Eglise de Sciento qui s'en donnent à coeur joie pour exposer des documents confidentiels au grand jour. Bien entendu, attention aux faux. Ceci dit, c'est incroyable à quel point <a href="http://www.emmanuelle.net/2008/04/anonymous_12_000_on_operation.html">le mouvement des Anonymous</a> a incité toutes sortes <a href="http://free-from-scientology.blogspot.com/2008/04/give-me-back-my-scientology.html">d'anciens de la secte à parler en public</a> ou à publier des d'information inédites sur la Scientologie aux Etats-Unis ces quatre derniers mois. 
+ retour à 2004: <a href="http://www.emmanuelle.net/2004/08/une_gaffe_avec_tom_cruise_a_bl.html">ma gaffe avec Tom Cruise.</a>

<p><div class="eng"><a href="http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/">Crazy Days and Nigths</a>, an ultra-addictive anonymous blogger from L.A. who introduces himself as an entertainment lawyer-to-the-stars, is enriching his blog's "<a href="http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/search/label/Scientology">Scientology section</a>" with captivating articles about the cult in Hollywood. He also refers to new content on <a href="http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks">Wikileaks</a>, this collaborative website created by Chinese dissidents. It has become <a href="https://www.reason.com/blog/show/123542.html">an online dark alley for "whistle blowers" from around the world,</a> among them, former members of CoS furiously publishing as many corrosive confidential documents as they can. Beware of fakes, obviously; but this being said, it's incredible how <a href="http://www.emmanuelle.net/2008/04/anonymous_12_000_on_operation.html">the Anonymous movement</a> has incited former members of the cult to <a href="http://free-from-scientology.blogspot.com/2008/04/give-me-back-my-scientology.html">speak up in public</a> or publish exclusive information in the United States these past four months. 
+ Back in 2004: <a href="http://www.emmanuelle.net/2004/08/une_gaffe_avec_tom_cruise_a_bl.html">My blooper with Tom Cruise</a></div></p>]]></description>
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Le site du Washington Post m'a demandé de réagir à l'article de l'écrivain Diane Johnson dans le journal de dimanche, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042503097_pf.html">The Dollar's Down. But We're Not Out</a>, sur le drame des expatriés américains à Paris confrontés à la flambée de l'Euro face au Dollar. 

L'auteur de romans à succès ("Une Américaine à Paris," adapté au cinéma sous le titre "Le Divorce") qui est, me dit-on, charmante dans la vie, a déclenché <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042503097_Comments.html">une bourrasque de commentaires fieleux</a> sur le site du Post. Il faut dire que son <em>timing</em> ne pouvait être moins bon: le récit de ses douloureux sacrifices (fini les coûteuses bouteilles d'eau minérales à table dans les bistros parisiens; adieux voyages à San Francisco en classe affaires...) a peu ému à l'heure où Américains et Européens voient leur pouvoir d'achat érodé et redoutent carrément une dépression économique. Sa candeur de privilégiée m'a rappelée une autre Américaine à Paris, Susan Spano du Los Angeles Times, qui <a href="http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2005/09/a-spano-blog-it.html">se faisait régulièrement tailler des costards</a> sur le blog de la Française de coeur <a href="http://www.advicegoddess.com/goddessblog.html">Amy Alkon</a> (ci-dessus dans un supermarché parisien: photos <a href="http://greggsutter.com/">Gregg Sutter</a>). 

Voici ma réponse (peut-être tout aussi détachée de la réalité française?): (<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042802037_pf.html">Americans in Paris don't have it so bad</a>.) 

<p><div class="eng">The Washington Post Online asked me to react to an op-ed published on Sunday by novelist Diane Johnson, titled <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042503097_pf.html">The Dollar's Down. But We're Not Out</a>, about the cruel plight of Dollar-earning American expatriates in Paris currently under duress due to the changing fortunes of the ever-soaring Euro.

This successful author (her best-seller,"Le Divorce," was adapted into a movie) is a charming person in life, I'm told, but her column has unleashed <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042503097_Comments.html">a flurry of spiteful comments on the Post's website</a>. It has to be said that her timing couldn't be worse: the details of her dolorous sacrifices (<em>fini</em> expensive bottles of mineral water to spritz up meals at Parisean bistros; <em>adieux</em> airfare in business class to San Francisco...) didn't exactly move many readers at a time when Americans, and Europeans for that matter, are seeing their purchasing power crumble and fear an upcoming economic depression. Diane Johnson's out-of-touch candor reminded me of another American in Paris, Susan Spano of the Los Angeles Times, who was <a href="http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2005/09/a-spano-blog-it.html">regularly shred to pieces</a> on the blog of our favorite <em>Française de coeur</em> <a href="http://www.advicegoddess.com/goddessblog.html">Amy Alkon</a> (fabulous as always above, shopping in a Parisean supermarket -- all photos by <a href="http://greggsutter.com/">Gregg Sutter</a>).

Here is my "rebuttal" (perhaps just as disconnected from the French reality?): (<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042802037_pf.html">Americans in Paris don't have it so bad</a>.) </div></p>

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         <description><![CDATA[Sur une recommandation de l'ami <a href="http://www.jimlowney.com/mt/index.html">Jim Lowney</a>: une analyse très drôle des publications financières américaines comme le Wall Street Journal, Forbes et Fortune qui succombent à la mode de la vidéo sur leurs sites web et accumulent les gaffes. 

<p><div class="eng">Recommended by our good friend <a href="http://www.jimlowney.com/mt/index.html">Jim Lowney</a>: this very funny analysis of financial publications' online multimedia packages, or how the Wall Street Journal, Fortune and Forbes are still pretty clumsy at producing video clips for their websites.</div></p>

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Félicitations <a href="http://www.kenlayne.com/">Ken Layne</a>! L'ami Ken <a href="http://wonkette.com/379275/yes-we-can-wonkette-goes-solo">vient d'acquérir le blog politique de légende <a href="http://www.wonkette.com">Wonkette</a> auprès de Nick Denton

Hasard: en vacances sur une île lointaine, j'ai lu hier le bouquin de <a href="http://www.jessicacutleronline.com/">Jessica Cutler</a>, alias "Washingtonienne", la stagiaire désinhibée et passablement troublée du Capitole, entretenue par des vieux riches de Washington. Son blog avait alimenté le premier gros <em>sex scandal</em> sur <a href="http://wonkette.com/search/jessica%20cutler/jessica%20cutler/">Wonkette</a>... devenue "Bloguette" dans ce "roman" à clef diablement divertissant et fort instructif pour tout(e) novice dans la capitale américaine. Et pas uniquement à cause de ce <a href="http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2008/03/anal-sex-without-condom.html">dont tout le monde se souvient</a>: je n'avais jamais lu de compte-rendus aussi révélateurs sur le quotidien dans les bureaux des élus du Congrès. 

<p><div class="eng">Congrats <a href="http://www.kenlayne.com/">Ken Layne</a>! Our friend Ken <a href="http://wonkette.com/379275/yes-we-can-wonkette-goes-solo">just acquired  legendary political blog <a href="http://www.wonkette.com">Wonkette</a> from <a href="http://www.nickdenton.org/">Nick Denton</a>. 

Funny: while on vacation on a remote island, I just read "Washingtonienne," by <a href="http://www.jessicacutleronline.com/">Jessica Cutler</a>, the uninhibited and slightly troubled Capitol intern who had a few friends-with-benefits relationships with rich old dudes in Washington. In 2004, her blog fueled the first big <em>sex scandal</em> on <a href="http://wonkette.com/search/jessica%20cutler/jessica%20cutler/">Wonkette</a>... known as "Bloguette" in this very entertaining <em>roman à clef</em> that is a must-read for any novice in the American capital. Not only because of <a href="http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2008/03/anal-sex-without-condom.html">you-know-what</a>: I had never read anything so revealing about the work life in congressional offices before.</div></p>]]></description>
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<a href="http://www.liberation.fr/">Libération</a> publie aujourd'hui mon papier <a href="http://www.liberation.fr/transversales/grandsangles/320993.FR.php">sur le fascinant "mouvement" Anonymous de protestation contre la Scientologie</a>, vu des Etats-Unis, avec une page de portraits d'"Anonymes" parisiens rejoints par <a href="http://pageperso.aol.fr/nonoleclown/">Nono Le Clown</a> lors de la troisième manifestation mondiale, surnommée "<a href="http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/PROJECT_CHANOLOGY/IRL_PROTEST_PAGE/Operation_Reconnect">Operation Reconnect</a>" samedi après-midi (lire <a href="http://www.liberation.fr/transversales/grandsangles/320992.FR.php">le compte-rendu de Renaud Lecadre</a>.) Je n'ai pas pu assister à la manif de Washington (pour cause de vacances hors des Etats-Unis), mais les forums des Anonymes semblent dire qu'il y avait entre 200 et 300 manifestants, à peu près autant que le 15 mars quand j'étais <a href="http://emmanuelle.buzznet.com/user/photos/anonymous-in-dc/?id=32930421">tombée sur leur rallye festif par hasard</a>. 

<p><div class="eng">Today's French daily <a href="http://www.liberation.fr/">Libération</a> ran <a href="http://www.liberation.fr/transversales/grandsangles/320993.FR.php">my story about the fascinating Anonymous movement critical of Scientology</a> (click here for <a href="http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.liberation.fr%2Ftransversales%2Fgrandsangles%2F320993.FR.php&langpair=fr%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8">a Google Translation</a>), as seen from the U.S. The paper version has a gallery of photos of masked "Anons" taken during the Paris demonstration on Saturday, complete with their somewhat inspirational leader <a href="http://pageperso.aol.fr/nonoleclown/">Nono Le Clown</a>  (read <a href="http://www.liberation.fr/transversales/grandsangles/320992.FR.php">Renaud Lecadre's account of the very small demonstration here</a>.) This third edition of Anonymous' global protest was called <a href="http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/PROJECT_CHANOLOGY/IRL_PROTEST_PAGE/Operation_Reconnect">"Operation Reconnect</a>" and I wish I could have attended the Washington demo but I'm on vacation outside of the U.S. Anonymous forums seem to say that between 200 and 300 people showed up in the U.S. capital, roughly as many as on March 15, when I came across <a href="http://emmanuelle.buzznet.com/user/photos/anonymous-in-dc/?id=32930421">their previous demonstration by accident:.</a></div></p>

Au niveau global, la mobilisation serait égale ou inférieure à celle du mois dernier, à en croire plusieurs "leaders" régionaux. Des Anons chargés du recensement sur <a href="http://www.Enturbulation.org">Enturbulation.org</a> estime qu' "Operation Reconnect" a rassemblé 9 000 personnes dans une centaine de villes du monde entier (le chiffre n'est pas définitif: <a href="http://http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2816921">voir discussion</a> et <a href="http://www.taurelilomea.com/local--files/monthly-rallies/anonmap.png">carte mondiale</a>.) Ces estimations me paraissent un peu optimistes, car les villes championnes du mouvement comme L.A. ou Londres ont vu 300-400 personnes chacune, mais de nombreuses autres comme Moscou, Lausanne ou Paris n'ont réuni qu'une toute petite poignée d'Anonymes. Ce qui n'enlève rien au caractère jamais vu de ce réseau.  

<p><div class="eng">On a global level, participation was the same or less than last month, according to several regional "organizers." Anons in charge of the headcount <a href="http://www.Enturbulation.org">Enturbulation.org</a> estimate that "Operation Reconnect" has gathered some 9,000 demonstrators in a hundred cities around the world (stats keep changing: <a href="http://http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2816921">see thread</a> and <a href="http://www.taurelilomea.com/local--files/monthly-rallies/anonmap.png">world map</a>.) . Which seems a tad optimistic to me, given that leading cities such as L.A. or London had perhaps 300-400 people, but numerous other cities such as Moscow, Lausanne or Paris only had a handful. Which doesn't take anything from the uniqueness of this never-seen before network. </div></p>

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CONNECTIVITE LIMITEE EN FRANCE / FRENCH CONNECTION LIMITED

Faute de davantage de place dans le journal, un encadré sur la faiblesse du mouvement en France a sauté: <em>"Je ne pense pas qu’ [Anonymous] existe vraiment en France,"</em> estime Karin Pouw, porte-parole de l’Eglise de Scientologie Internationale, tout en se réjouissant d’ "un changement de situation" (en février, la directrice de cabinet de Nicolas Sarkozy, Emmanuelle Mignon, s’était interrogée sur la pertinence du mot "secte" pour qualifier la Scientologie.) 

Explications avancées pour ce manque de mobilisation: le tout-anglais jusqu'à tout récemment sur les sites-clefs d’Anonymous et <em>"le manque de visibilité de la Scientologie en France"</em>, selon un informaticien membre-pivot de la branche française. Face à une secte reconnue en tant que telle, <em>"les gens n’ont pas la même motivation [qu’aux Etats-Unis] pour rejoindre la cause."</em> A noter que des opposants comme Nono Le Clown affirment décrocher des rendez-vous avec des élus politiques "de différents partis" pour exprimer leurs inquiétudes face à la Scientologie.

<p><div class="eng">Due to the lack of space, the paper didn't end up running a sidebar on the surprisingly low participaion in France: <em>"I don't think that [Anonymous] really exists in France,"</em> said Karin Pouw, a Church of Scientology International spokeswoman, before mentioning with satisfaction that "the situation has changed" (in February, French president Nicolas Sarkozy's Head of Cabinet, Emmanuelle Mignon, questioned the use of the word "cult" to describe Scientology.) 

Here's how French Anons explain the lack of involvement in the usually demonstration-happy France: this is due to the English-only (until very recently) content on Anonymous' main websites and forums and the fact that <em>"Scientology is just not visible in France,"</em> according to a young computer guy and key French Anon. When a cult is recognized as such in a country, <em>"people don't have the same motivation [as in the U.S.] to fight for the cause."</em> A point worth mentioning: CoS opponents such as Nono Le Clown seem to be able to line up meetings with elected officials "of different parties" to express their concerns about Scientology.</div></p>

Aux Etats-Unis, c'est autrement plus difficile. Et c'est un aspect qui n'a pas pu être exploré longuement dans l'article de Libération. J'ai contacté plusieurs plusieurs lobbyistes, hommes politiques concernés et l’Association Américaine de Psychiatrie (la Scientologie lutte activement contre cette discipline) qui ont décliné ou ignoré des demandes répétées de commentaires pour cet article. <em>«Beaucoup d’élus et de leaders religieux craignent de dire publiquement ce qu’ils me disent en privé: certains affirment avoir déjà été intimidés par la Scientologie,» </em>me disait le révérend John Wetzel, un pasteur luthérien qui agit en «lobbyiste» bénévole des critiques de la scientologie à Washington. <a href="http://www.lermanet.com">Arnie Lerma</a>, un ancien membre de la Scientologie devenu activiste critique affirme carrément: <em>"Nous menons un combat façon guerrilla car il n'y a aucun courage à Washington."</em>

<p><div class="eng">Getting to talk to your representative about Scientology is another story in the United States, and I wish this aspect could have been mentioned in more detail in the Liberation article. I contacted several lobbyists, politicians who have a reputation for being weary of cults, and the American Psychiatric Association (Scientology is actively fighting against psychiatry) and they either all declined or ignored my requests for comments for this article. <em>"Many elected officials and religious leaders are afraid to say publicly what they tell me privately: some of them tell me that they've already been intimidated by the Church of Scientology,"</em> said Rev. John Wetzel, a critic who acts as a de facto unpaid "representative" for Scientology detractors in Washington. <a href="http://www.lermanet.com">Arnie Lerma</a>, a former CoS member turned opponent is more blunt: "<em>We’re fighting in guerilla warfare style because there is no courage in Washington.”</em></div></p>

<ul>A visiter / Links: <li><a href="http://free-from-scientology.blogspot.com/">Formerly Fooled</a>, le blog de "Mary McConnell", une ancienne scientologue activiste / <a href="http://free-from-scientology.blogspot.com/">Formerly Fooled,</a> a blog by "Mary McConnell," a former scientologist-turned-activist.</li>

<li>Pour une couverture française d'Anonymous, le site <a href="http://www.bakchich.info/spip.php?page=recherche&recherche=scientologie">Bakchich</a> / <a href="http://www.bakchich.info/spip.php?page=recherche&recherche=scientologie">Bakchich</a>: a French website covering the French Anon movement since the get-go.</li>

<li>Le nouveau portail vidéo de la Scientologie / CoS's new video portal: <a href="http://www.scientology.org/index.html">Scientology.org</a</li>

<li>Le clip de la Scientologie qui dénonce Anonymous: <a href="http://www.anonymous-exposed.org/">Anonymous Exposed</a>... et la <a href="http://anonymousexposed.org/">réponse d'Anonymous</a> / CoS' video denouncing Anonymous: <a href="http://www.anonymous-exposed.org/">Anonymous Exposed</a>... and Anonymous' response <a href="http://anonymousexposed.org/">réponse d'Anonymous</a>.</li>

<li>The Village Voice: <a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0815,celebrity%20denounces%20scientology,411801,2.html">Scientology's First Celebrity Defector Reveals Church Secrets</a></li></ul>


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         <description><![CDATA[<div class="eng"><a href="http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2007/03/cathy_seipp_rip.html">It was a year ago today</a> and we miss her terribly. Nancy Rommelmann has <a href="http://nancyrommelmann.typepad.com/nancy_rommelmann/2008/03/remembering-cat.html">a wonderful post</a> about befriending Cathy by cold-calling Buzz magazine in L.A. 

<blockquote><em>"Today is the one-year anniversary of the death of our friend Cathy Seipp. I say "our" because she so impacted her core group of friends, of which Matt Welch wrote on this date last year, "[Cathy] deserves all the credit in the world for creating this community of unlike-minded weirdoes around her."</em> <a href="http://nancyrommelmann.typepad.com/nancy_rommelmann/2008/03/remembering-cat.html">Read on...</a></blockquote></div>

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         <description><![CDATA[<div class="eng">Happy birthday dear Ben! You can bowl and you're creating the Future.</div>

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         <link>http://www.emmanuelle.net/2008/03/confidential_in_los_angeles.html</link>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:20:49 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Eliot, le diable et son train / Eliot&apos;s train to Hell</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://buzznet-97.vo.llnwd.net/assets/users16/emmanuelle/default/spitzcover--feat-msg-12053356031.jpg" border="0" "style="float:left; margin:10px;">Mon détail préféré dans le scandale Eliot Spitzer, le gouverneur de l'état de New York réputé "plus blanc que blanc" et poussé vers la sortie par une affaire de moeurs et de transfert de fonds illégal: ce radin <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/03122008/news/regionalnews/80g_addicted_to_love_gov_101541.htm">a fait venir sa dernière call-girl de luxe à 1000 Dollars de l'heure de New York à Washington</a> en train Amtrak, le train régional bondé, au lieu de lui offrir un billet sur le train "rapide" bien plus  confortable <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acela_Express">Acela Express</a>. C'est un peu la différence entre un TER et un TGV, mais il faut dire que cet Acela est hors de prix: environs 130 Dollars par trajet!

Au moins, il ne l'aura pas fait voyager en "autocar chinois": ces bus de Chinatown un tantinet rustiques qui relient Washington à New York en 4 ou 5 heures pour moins de 25 Dollars l'aller. En attendant un peu, il aurait pu lui réserver une place dans <a href="http://www.newyorkology.com/archives/2008/03/bolt_bus_to_lau.php">le nouveau bus Greyhound avec wi-fi</a> dont le lancement imminent est annoncé sur <a href="http://www.newyorkology.com/">Newyorkology</a>. 

<p><div class="eng">My favorite detail in the case of Eliot Spitzer, the New York governor and anti-corruption crusader thown into a prostitution and financial
scandal: this penny-pincher made his <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/03122008/news/regionalnews/80g_addicted_to_love_gov_101541.htm">a last, 1000 Dollar-an-hour call girl travel from New York to Washington</a> on a regular crowded regional Amtrak train instead of reserving a ticket on the comfortable <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acela_Express">Acela Express</a>.In France, it would be a little bit like sending someone off on a slow TER regional train instead of a TGV, but you have to admit that this Acela train is overly expensive: something like $130 one way!

At least he didn't make her travel on a "Chinese bus": those rustic Chinatown buses that take you from Washington to New York in 4 or 5 hours for less than $25 a pop. Had he waited a bit, he could have bought a seat  <a href="http://www.newyorkology.com/archives/2008/03/bolt_bus_to_lau.php">the new Greyhound bus with on-board wi-fi</a> whose imminent launch was announced on <a href="http://www.newyorkology.com/">Newyorkology.</a></div></p>

+ <a href="http://reason.com/news/show/125475.html">Why was Eliot Spitzer's lifestyle illegal, anyway?</a>]]></description>
         <link>http://www.emmanuelle.net/2008/03/eliot_le_diable_et_son_train_e.html</link>
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                  <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">DC adventures</category>
        
        
         <pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:20:29 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Matt sur PBS / Matt on PBS</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://buzznet-87.vo.llnwd.net/assets/users16/mattwelch/default/Lookie_that--feat-msg-118698335289.jpg" border="0" alt="Lookie that - Photo Hosted at Buzznet" title="Lookie that - Photo Hosted at Buzznet" style="float:left; margin:10px;" />Matt était invité de Bill Moyers sur PBS hier soir pour parler du candidat républicain aux présidentielles John McCain qu'il <a href="http://www.amazon.com/McCain-Myth-Maverick-Matt-Welch/dp/0230603963/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205000799&sr=8-1">connait un petit peu</a> et <a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/03072008/watch2.html">la vidéo est ici.</a> 

<p><div class="eng">Matt was on Bill Moyers' show last night on PBS to talk about Republican presidential candidate John McCain, about whom <a href="http://www.amazon.com/McCain-Myth-Maverick-Matt-Welch/dp/0230603963/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205000799&sr=8-1">he knows a few things</a>, and <a href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/03072008/watch2.html">the video is here.</a></div></p>]]></description>
         <link>http://www.emmanuelle.net/2008/03/matt_sur_pbs_matt_on_pbs_1.html</link>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:19:33 -0800</pubDate>
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