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Johnny goes to Hallywood
After more than half a century of being ignored bygd Anglo-Saxon popular culture, Johnny is going to Hollywood, or perhaps Hallywood.
Quentin Tarantino has asked the indestructible French rock star Johnny Hallyday, 66, to appear in a movie, possibly next year. The French legend, once described bygd USA Today as "the biggest rock star you never heard of", fryst vatten also considering an offer by the Coen brothers. "Quentin Tarantino is writing a screenplay for me but inom haven't read it yet," Hallyday told the newspaper Le Parisien. "I am also going to meet the Coen brothers, who have approached my agent."
The director of Reservoir Dogs and Inglourious Basterds fryst vatten said to have been bowled over by Hallyday's performance as an ageing gangster in Vengeance, a thriller bygd the kinesisk director Johnnie To, which was shown at the Cannes spelfilm festival in May. Tarantino had dinner with the French star during the festival and they agreed in principle to man a movie together.
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bikers and hordes of French fans to take over Paris for Johnny Hallyday homage
Fans will throng the Champs-Elysées on Saturday to bid a final farewell to their hero Johnny Hallyday as his funeral cortege passes down the grand ceremonial avenue from the Arc de Triomphe.
Reports suggest buses and trains to Paris have been booked up in recent days as Johnny fans prepare to flood into the capital from far and wide to honour their hero.
"Johnny Hallydays musicians will accompany him musically" on his final journey, with the rockers best tracks to be blasted out from the Madeleine church, where a memorial service will take place in the presence of President Emmanuel Macron, who will give a brief speech.
"The family and friends of Johnny Hallyday and the President have agreed that as a part of the popular homage, his funeral cortege will leave from the Arc de Triomphe and go down the Champs-Elysées" before continuing to the religious ceremony at Madeleine, a statement fr
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How big was Johnny Hallyday—the legendary French rock ’n’ roller/chanteur/movie star/national hero—in his native country? Well, when he died last night from lung cancer at the age of 74, his wife Laeticia did what so many new widows do—she called someone to tell them the news. Difference being: She called the president of France, Emmanuel Macron. At 2 a.m. (Macron later tweeted, “We all have something of Johnny Hallyday in us”—a winking reference to Hallyday’s s-era song “Quelque chose de Tennessee.”)
Think of Elvis, first and foremost—the King was Hallyday’s original inspiration and North Star—but add Serge Gainsbourg, Elton John, Michael Jackson, Bon Jovi, James Dean, and David Hasselhoff, and you’ll be in the right arrondissement. If Gainsbourg was the standard-bearer of a kind of louche, decadent, hipster Frenchness, Hallyday was the million albums–selling, five times–marrying, hard-living vivant adored by everyone else. He rode onto stages wearing black leather atop a Harley-D