Literature
What a Beigbeder!
photography Colibri
Good good afternoon! I’m looking for Frederic Beigbeder.
I am.
Can we turn on the video?
Yes. – Beigbeder appears on my phone display smiling. We’re talking on WhatsApp. He looks greyer, with a bigger beard, but also with that sly look you can’t mistake. We’re chatting about his new novel, Confessions of a Slightly Outdated Heterosexual (published in Bulgarian by Colibri editing house, translated by Rositsa Tasheva).
Are you in Gethary? (A picturesque village in south-western France, on the Bay of Biscay, where the writer has lived for some years.)
Yes, yes. That’s right!
Laura Jackson
Laura Jackson, Freddie Mercury's biographer The shadow of the genius
photography: Laura Jackson archive and Ciela
According to Sky TV, “When it comes to getting someone into the circles of the rich and famous, Laura Jackson has no equal. “The Scottish author turned bestselling biographies of global stars such as Brian Jones – the creator of the Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, Steven Tyler, Jon Bon Jovi, Daniel Day Lewis, Ewan McGregor, Kiefer Sutherland. In 2011, her latest book, dedicated to Freddie Mercury, was published. Around the same time, Queen received MTV’s honorary “World Icon” award, invited Lady Gaga to be the lead singer, it was revealed that in 2012 they would release a joint recording of Freddie and Michael Jackson, and star in a biopic about the life of their lead singer, whose role, according to news reports at the time, would be played by Sasha Barron Cohen. Six years later, the film Bohemian Rhapsody, starring Rami Malek as Freddie, even won four Oscars, one of them for Malek in the title role. But let face the truth – all those Oscars were for Freddie!
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