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Chapter Fourteen

People leaving Bobby this , Tammy to Jacques Levy’s for the weekend, Bruce to check out the floor plans of the terminals at Orly airport, Bentley on vacation, "perhaps Greece, perhaps not," which leavesSaint-Honore, where Jae, aronetic e adviser (eighteen, gorgeous) to a "beach of cal so with the bodyguards and the bodyguards are waiting because of Brazilian millionaires, an empress or two, the Princess of Monaco, Judith Godreche, and we’re all sipping a 1992 Ch?teau de Bellet and I’luazines until the boouards in the head and the director gets bored and the crew moves on to an early dinner and the next setup

At the Opera Gas are mixed about the Japanese libretto but we’re really there for the paparazzi waiting at the botto at the top of the stairs And Christiana Brandolini is there and Sao Schluer loses a contact lens and Irene A on ht in the glow of a chandelier, she relents and s about how beautiful I a to Jamie, and Ao at Les Bains that I wasn’t invited to

I spot the Christian Bale look-alike I first saw on Bond Street in London, noearing a tuxedo and nodding slohen he noticesover at hi the first intermission

A black Citroen takes us to the Buddha Bar and after we sit at a table, shaken, saying nothing, just staring hopelessly at each other, Ja and calls Hotel Costes and since she knows Jean Louis and Gilbert a roo by the time we arrive at 239 Rue Saint-Honore The first assistant director glances at a call sheet and tells both of us to be on the ht and Ja ponyskin coat, and then it’s my turn to follow her

The door to our room closes behindher mouth and her arms are wrapped aroundso hard that she has to pull back Then someone knocks on the door

Ja overcoat, lazily strides over to the door She opens it without asking who it is

A file Panavision cahts are positioned The first AD tells me where to lie on the bed while Jamie confers with the director and the script supervisor The proplasses A joint-not a prop-is introduced into the scene and then Ja the joint Someone rumples the blankets on the bed and the director calls "Playback" and Jane Birkin starts sighing "Je T’Aihts and it’s so cold in the roo out of our mouths

Jamie lies on her back and drea smoke in until she slowly breathes it out-a cue for her to start speaking in a halting, deliberate tone, her voice breathy and lost, her eyes half-closed

"Bobby strolled into Superstudio Industria It was a shoot that had gone late was it for an Anne Klein ca a hundred thousand dollars a day and it seemed worth it and it was maybe ten-thirty or eleven and in Deceo? five? and there had been a power failure of so lit but you still couldn’t see anything and it was freezing It had gotten so cold in just a oose buht and there was this shapecloser to where I was standing alone and then it started circlingwhich sounded familiar ’On the Sunny Side of the Street,’ it kept singing and then I noticed the ca hihts and they were still filarette in that instant I saw his face and recognized him immediately He took me to the VIP rooround was the fil