Saturday May 18. The 1968 Cannes Film Festival was about to enter its moment week when a press conference was called for 10AM in the Jean Cocteau Theater at the faded Palais Croisette. Just a few yards down the road,a budding starlet was preparing to hold court on the beach, imagining she would invent headlines with her saucy topless photo-call. No one came. Instead, and on a bright,sunny day, the world's media was crammed into a small, and stuffy screening room,watching the…
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