Commentaires sur : Discussion

Par : lyre_byrd

lyre_byrd — Thu, 17 May 2012 04:55:13 +0000

Bonjour tout le monde, et Max à Kisangani (c’est où?).
J’ai mangé une religieuse cet après-midi à Patachou. Délicieuse!
Mais j’ai besoin de savoir: comment va notre professeur?

Par : Max Reddy

Max Reddy — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:16:30 +0000

Hello Fellow FiA Cultists. I am back in Kisangani. Wish I was at the Luxembourg….

Par : Roberto Antonio Hussein Eder

Roberto Antonio Hussein Eder — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:20:16 +0000

Re Marie Laure in FIA. The one thing that bothered me about Mireille was how she treated Marie Laure. I thought that the FIA writers did Mireille a disservice in this regard. I thought Mireille’s harsh impatience was superfluous and unnecessary.

Par : Roberto Antonio Hussein Eder

Roberto Antonio Hussein Eder — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:14:44 +0000

J’étudie maintenant les dialogues de FIA parce que je veux les mémoriser avec l’intention de les apprendre par coeur. Si il y a des autres qui ayant le même désir, on peut peut-être ensemble préparer le méme dialogue, et puis on peut le discuter l’un avec l’autre. Robert Eder, Salt Lake City, hussein.eder@gmail.com.

Par : Roberto Antonio Hussein Eder

Roberto Antonio Hussein Eder — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:58:10 +0000

I see some comments asking about Marie Laure (Virginie Contesse). In the skit between Charles Mayer and Valérie Allain, Mireille said that Marie Laure had been studying law and now was a “detective privée,” or was this just made up for the skit? Or perhaps I misunderstood the dialogue.

Par : jpsullivan

jpsullivan — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:28:52 +0000

At the reunion, Valérie said she stayed in touch with Virginie’s family in Menton, France for a couple of years after filming, but fell out of contact after that. See Charles Mayers’ comment below of 24 Nov 2010. There were some rumors posted here about Virginie working at a store in New York City, but I rather doubt their veracity.

Par : MaxReddy

MaxReddy — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:45:51 +0000

At the reunion there was quite a bit of interest in what has become of Virginie. Nobody seemed to know.

Par : Tom

Tom — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:54:31 +0000

It has been awhile since I visited this site and am trying to catch up. At the reunion, did anyone ask about Virginie Contesse? Any info on “Marie Laure?” My favorite character on FIA all those years ago…

Par : Alexander_G

Alexander_G — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:05:25 +0000

RIP
tante Georgettee =Colette Ripert died May 15, 1990

Still active
sister Cecile =Julie Arnold
Hubert = Franck de la Personne
Jean-pierre Bourdon = Riton Liebman
Colette = Fabienne Tricottet

FIA was last gig
Madame Belleau = Rosine Proust (she was hot on the show)
Jean-luc = Patrice Bachelot

I think I ran into Valerie in Paris a few years ago ~2009 at the big art store Crea. I’m in France now and enjoy Provence more than Paris, words from FIA come in handy but nothing better than immersion.

There are two ways to know if you the get ‘French’, when you go into a shop in a Paris and the shopkeeper responds in French instead of english.

Second go into a hardware store like Brico Depot or Brico Marche and describe plumbing and electrical things you need, if the dude tells you where it is, you’ve made it. If he tells you go ask the girls at the counter you haven’t. I’ve ‘made it’.

Par : C. Masenas

C. Masenas — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 03:44:37 +0000

Regarding putting FIA videos on a PC, I have transferred all videos from DVD to my MacBook and the total storage is 23 GB. I used free open source software to do the transferring. Videos can be further compressed if resolution is sacrificed. I transferred some videos to my IPod Touch with a lower resolution. I was able to cut out the annoying intro sequence and titles from each lesson.

Once on the MacBook, videos can be accessed quickly. Neat things can be done like replaying arbitrary sections quickly to pick up a phrase not caught on first hearing.

I imagine the same thing can be done with a PC. Most computers these days come with 100′s of GB so no problem with storage.

I also transferred all audio CD’s which required 3 GB. I organized these in ITunes into “Audiobooks” grouped by lesson so they don’t show up as Music.