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Early in Rosecrans Baldwin?s droll and well-observed memoir Paris, I Love You But You?re Bringing Me Down, Baldwin?s looking for an apartment in the Latin Quarter, and in the shadow of the Pantheon, he reflects on all that has happened since the days of Hemingway. He goes on to list some of these things: ?Luke Skywalker had happened. Supermarkets happened. Hip-hop happened and Joan Didion happened. Email happened.?
Sans blague. The Paris of today is no longer your parents? Paris, Midnight in Paris Paris?the city of Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and later Julia Child, of 20-franc hotel rooms and 5-franc bistro lunches. Paris has grown up, learned English, globalized, and gotten expensive. Meanwhile in America: Espresso has happened, Chez Panisse has happened, Napa Valley has happened. In both places, 1968 happened. Paris has sushi restaurants and immigration issues, and America has Whole Foods, which evokes such reverence in the French people in Baldwin?s book that they call it ?unbelievable? and ?so beautiful? and declare?crazily, to American ears?that ?we have nothing like Whole Foods ... show me where in Paris food is sold like art.?
So who is talking to whom here? Has America become more French, has France become more American? Baldwin, like many Americans, harbors fantasies about life in Paris?there he would discover his true artistic self, shed the banal skin of Americanness, and rediscover himself as a European. Perhaps he would learn to appreciate wine. He moves to Paris in 2007 to take a job as a copywriter for a big French advertising firm. He and his wife rent an apartment in the Marais, and when Baldwin isn?t writing copy, he?s studiously working on a novel, in another grand tradition of American writers.
It?s a little ballsy at this point to write an American-in-Paris memoir, given the genre?s deep bench. Since moving to Paris 18 months ago, I?ve read Hungry for Paris, The Sweet Life in Paris, Paris to the Moon, Lunch in Paris, and?most recently, after having a baby here myself?Bringing up B?b?. Every publishing season seems to bring its own Paris memoir, and every season I (and plenty of other Americans, in Paris or America,) snap these stories up. But what makes Baldwin?s book particularly enjoyable is that it engages with the clash of our American idea of Paris and Paris the modern reality. In Paris the global city, Baldwin continually runs up against his provincial and romantic fantasies, and then asks himself why he has them in the first place.
In many ways, Baldwin and I are in the same cohort: thirtysomething, college-educated, upper-middle-class Americans with jobs in media. We both moved to Paris from New York City with our spouses. Both of us first learned to revere Paris from our parents. Baldwin remembers visiting the city as a child and watching his mother transform into a woman over a bowl of caf? au lait. Similarly, I?m named after ?ric Rohmer?s film Claire?s Knee, and my parents fed me escargot before I turned 10. Both of us were raised on the Paris of our parents? expectations, a place where everything was a little more beautiful, more cultured, more intellectual, more delicious, more right.
Against this shimmering ideal, modern Paris can be a bit of a slap in the face, sometimes feeling designed to sabotage all romance. The quaint bistro down the street from Baldwin is run by Australians, serves ostrich steak, and is wallpapered in pornographic cartoons. The Metro is crowded, the coffee is terrible, and it rains as much as in London. The most delicious and affordable food comes from the local frozen food retailer, Picard.
It may seem naive or even insane to cling to a romanticized image of a city when its full-blooded reality is staring you in the face. But Paris encourages such paradox because of how heavily it trades on its own romantic mythology. More international tourists visit Paris each year than any other city, and Paris knows what they come for: not just the Eiffel tower key chains but?the quaint bistros, the sidewalk cafes, the Louvre, the croissants and the baguettes and the boules. Though a lot has happened since Hemingway, it?s still selling that story.
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Outpouring of sadness and gratitude on social sites follows news of rapper/bassist's death at age 47.
By Kara Klenk
Beastie Boys in the early 1990s
Photo: Paul Natkin/ Getty Images
Fans of the Beastie Boys were shocked and saddened to hear of the passing of Adam "MCA" Yauch, after a long battle with cancer, on Friday (May 4).
Many took to the Web to mourn and remember what the musician's work with the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rap trio meant to them. And almost as soon after the news of Yauch's death broke, Beastie Boys-related phrases were dominating the majority of the worldwide trends on Twitter, with topics and hashtags like #RIPMCA and "No Sleep Til Brooklyn."
Fans like @sbpeterson expressed overwhelming sadness, writing, "You'll be missed MCA - I'm simply devastated," while others referred to Yauch as an "icon" and a "legend."
Some didn't know how to explain how deeply they were affected, like @Dawsonase who wrote, "What a loss. Having trouble expressing what the Beastie Boys mean to this small town white girl." Music fans like @RockforTrouble tweeted, "This has been a HEART BREAKING year" with Yauch's death coming shortly after the loss of music-industry icons like the Whitney Houston and the .
For many, the Beastie Boys' massive catalog coincided with their youth. @chasesclouds tweeted, "Still have all cassettes & original Beastie Boys cd's before they were remastered. Soundtrack to my life; inspiration to many," a sentiment echoed in several tweets. Comedians the @SklarBrothers tweeted, "So sad about MCA. The Beasties influenced us and inspired us to do what we do. Everyone we knew wanted 2 b them. Huge loss. #hero."
Gratitude for Yauch abounded as fans like @cholliday tweeted, "Thanks for 20+ yrs. of killer tunes & rhymes!" while others encouraged fans to spread the music, like @KimberlyAMT who wrote, "Play some Beastie Boys today. #RIPMCA."
The Beastie Boys' rapper/bassist battle with cancer of the salivary gland put his untimely death into perspective for some fans. User Kelsey Danna wrote on MTV News' Facebook page , "I was in shocked when I heard the news but at least he's not suffering anymore."
The outpouring of love and admiration from fans, friends and celebrities who knew him highlights the indelible mark Yauch left on the music world, on hip-hop, and the hearts of his fans.
Share your condolences for MCA's family, friends and fans in the comments below.
Tune in to MTV tonight at 8 p.m. for "Adam Yauch: Remembering a Beastie Boy," an hour-long special hosted by Sway celebrating the life and career of Adam "MCA" Yauch, including his biggest moments and remembrances from his friends and peers. Check out mtvU now for classic Beastie Boys music videos.
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