jeudi, mai 12, 2005

J'ai un homonyme

J’ai un homonyme… Un cinéaste pas très connu mais que je rencontre régulièrement sur Google…
Ce n’est pas le seul Bernard Girard, il y a aussi un mathématicien, un joueur d’échec genevois, un fonctionnaire québecois et un accordéoniste, mais c’est le plus célèbre. Quoique… Le New-York Times en disait quelques mots aujourd’hui :
"Though little is written of director Bernard Girard's career before the making of Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966), Girard had been in Hollywood since the early 1950s, first as a screenwriter (among his credits was the 1952 Joan Crawford vehicle This Woman is Dangerous) then as a TV producer/director. His true feature-film bow was 1957's Ride Out For Revenge, followed by the bleak juvenile delinquent flick The Party Crashers (1958): the latter film represented the cinematic swan songs of two of Hollywood's most tragic personalities, Frances Farmer and Bobby Driscoll. One of Girard's better pre-Dead Heat projects was A Public Affair (1962), a terse, low-budget indictment of big-city political corruption."

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