{"id":5093,"date":"2020-11-10T17:54:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T17:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=5093"},"modified":"2020-11-10T17:54:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T17:54:49","slug":"eating-out-with-myra-in-a-chocolate-city-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/10\/eating-out-with-myra-in-a-chocolate-city-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating Out with Myra in a Chocolate City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>What have you been doing since we last met Saul?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I have been reading a book about the Dyatlov Pass Incident<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>What was that?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>It was about the strange deaths of nine hikers in the Ural Mountains in February 1959<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Why strange?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Because they suffered peculiar injuries and investigations have not been able to determine the circumstances on the incident<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>How interesting<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>What about you?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I have been writing a small book about a French movie released in 1972<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>What was the movie called?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Faustine et le bel ete<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Faustine and the Beautiful Summer<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Why are you writing a book about a movie released over forty years ago?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Because I had a very small part in it<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>What was the part?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I placed Myra the passing English girl who speaks to Faustine after she swims\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Why was your part cut?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I think that the director thought it unbalanced the film<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Was this your only film?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Yes<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I just happened to be passing the set and was invited to participate<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Nina was so apologetic to me and I still have the stills and the letter that she sent to me at the time<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Have you seen the movie?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>No<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>It contained early performances from Isabelle Huppert and Isabelle Adjani and you know how famous they became<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Did either of them play the title role?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>No that was played by Muriel Catala<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I have never heard of her<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>She retired at thirty<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Where shall we eat my actress friend?<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>You could have become a beacon in French cinema<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Another Jane Birkin<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And your Russian friends will discover what really happened to those poor people in the Dyatlov Pass<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Let me read your book when it is published<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I will<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And as a treat I will take you to the Dyatlov Pass<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Thank you but I would rather visit this chocolate caf\u00e9<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What have you been doing since we last met Saul? I have been reading a book about the Dyatlov Pass Incident What was that? It was about the strange deaths of nine hikers in the Ural Mountains in February 1959 Why strange? Because they suffered peculiar injuries and investigations have not been able to determine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}