"Get Ready For Very Little"

RK, if no one else, should find this of interest: Catherine Deneuve has a volume of diaries coming out, diaries, however, that are eliciting some rather unkind responses from critics. The former link has some good quotes in it, though, including this one: "The French like their literature to resemble their cassoulet - thick as a brick, and somewhat indigestible." See also Gerard Depardieu's description of Mme Deneuve as "the man I’d like to be."       Those of you unfamiliar with Mme Deneuve should check out her filmography. Some of you may remember her from her peculiar appearance in The Hunger lo those years ago with Susan Sarandon and that great thespian -- ack!-- David Bowie. That film still makes me, er, uncomfortable. It's too bad, though, that there seems to be a snowball's chance in Hell of her doing films in English that might do her justice. Her last film to get attention outside of French-speaking markets was probably Indochine in 1993, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award (admittedly as the dark horse in that race). At almost sixty, she seems to have matured more than she's aged-- and she's certainly a better actress now than she was in her ingènue days.