By Kim Velsey 5/25/12 4:28pm

Wealthy Europeans

France: get out while you still can (Celine Aussourd, flickr)

Rich French Residents Flee Tyrannical Taxes, Seek Shelter in New York

Mon Dieu! Rather than redecorating their chateaus or contemplating the new Chanel collection, the French elite must now find places to stash their cash, now that the people have gone and elected that terrible Socialist François Hollande.

The taxman cometh, reports The New York Times, and wealthy Gauls are not standing around waiting for him to take their hard-earned euros. Non! Instead, the French are rushing to spend their money on Manhattan real estate. Read More

By Rex Reed 9/06/11 9:30pm

movies

Sagnier and Scott Thomas.

A Love Crime of Murders and Acquisitions

Kristin Scott Thomas’s fluency in both French and English qualifies her for all kinds of movies, but there are too many of them and she doesn’t always live up to her potential. In Love Crime, the final film by the late Alain Corneau, sporting an unflattering, mousy brown coif better suited to a suburban commuter than a powerful and fashionable executive, she appears in one of her duller efforts. Read More