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   UK1999  #4  Paris: Champs-Elysées  

Date: 6/6/99

        I finally met my match. After videotaping all of Italy (where and when it wasn't allowed) and even taping the Andrea Bocelli concert at the Hollywood Bowl and St. Stephen's Crown in Budapest (guards jumped me but still got the video) I have become a docarazzzi. Well, they caught me while beginning to focus my SONY digital camcorder at the Moulin Rouge show last night and demanded to confiscate my camera. I stuck to my ground and told them I was not handing over a $3000 camera. After a little shouting they finally agreed to let me keep it after I promised not to tape. I kept my word. These French are pretty tough.
Up in the AM to run on Champs-Elysées and then Mass at St. Honoree. Cool and drizzly left us resting til 4 PM and then went to Notre Dame and the left bank and saw the Sorbonne (University of Paris). At the hotel we bumped into Dr. Hal Sawelson and his wife from Miami who I have known since the Implant Society days. She is a professional singer and sang with Dr. Kelman during the musical I produced for AIOIS at the Century Plaza Hotel in 1977. They invited us to join them for dinner at the La Grande Cascade which was this fabulous royal hunting lodge in Paris' "Central Park." The dinner was absolutely incredible but the price was even more incredible (FRF 2,492) - I will now have to wait another year to buy a new Corvette. This is the kind of dinner that LACMA should be serving at Executive Committee meetings.
Tomorrow we catch the train to Munich.

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Kenneth J. Hoffer, MD

KHofferMD@AOL.com           

Paris, France

Sent 6-6-99

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