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[ST] One way to see Paris
- Subject: [ST] One way to see Paris
- From: Steve Lawler <slawler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 08:48:58 -0400
And what waits for our hero at the end of the trip makes it even more
worthwhile.
"On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a
gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a
friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through
the heart of Paris. The film was limited for technical reasons to 10
minutes; the course was from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the
Basilica of Sacre Coeur.
No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit.
The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly 140
MPH in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red lights,
nearly hitting real pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up real
one-way streets.
Upon showing the film in public for the first time, Lelouch was
arrested. He has never revealed the identity of the driver, and the film
went underground until a DVD release a few years ago."
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2851488008488190547
--
Steve Lawler
Verona, NJ, USA
2001 Sprint ST "Blue Devil"
"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level
of stupidity attained by the bourgeois."
-- Gustave Flaubert
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