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The Movie: From the Porte Dauphine to Sacre-Coeur in less than 8 minutes in a Ferrari 275/GTB. Top speed in excess of 200. Count the number of red lights the car is running.

Early one Sunday morning in 1976, Claude Lelouch, the French film director best known for Un Homme et une Femme (1966), and other soft-focus romances with a distinct whiff of Pep? le Pew, took a 35mm camera for a high-speed drive around the streets of Paris. The result of this adventure, an eight-minute film entitled Rendezvous, has been the subject of amazement and speculation ever since. Did the car really blast from the Champs-Elys?es to the heights of Montmartre at 200mph? Was Lelouch behind the wheel, or was it the Formula One racer, Jacques Lafitte? And did the breakneck journey result in the director being propelled straight from the driving-seat into a police cell?

Background to the footage

Great article about the London opening of the first UK Apple Store. For me the defining comment that sums up Apple’s loyal following is:

Tens if not hundreds of thousands of pounds must’ve been spent that day and I made, in comparison, my meagre contribution.

What a brand eh? We no longer buy things from Apple…. you contibute to their turnover.

I popped into the Apple Store in Atlanta last year and found the experience cute. Lots of nice toys and pretty boxes. I really love OSX and the hardware it runs on. I’m a huge fan – but also a huge cynic of the almost lemmingesque following that some devotees adopt…….