Midnight In Paris: Wes Anderson

Scott Fitzgerald Dept: David McCullough Simon & Schuster 576 pp; $37.50, according to Vancouver Sun. That acknowledged, when it comes to celebrity expats, some eras resonate with more of a societal clang than others. In Woody Allen's charming new effort Midnight in Paris, the supernatural setting for half the movie is Paris in the 1920s. That storied period, peopled by Aaron Copland to Alexander Calder, Scott Fitzgerald to Henry Miller, Cole Porter to Josephine Baker -and many more in diverse pursuits -has almost come to define the very notion of the Yankee abroad over the ages and the Greater Journey: Americans in Paris From Benjamin Franklin to Ernest Hemingway, Jim Morrison to Wes Anderson, Americans have been drawing inspiration from the City of Lights since before either republic was born. As reported in the news.
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