About the Author of Paris Movie Walks

Hi, I’m Michael, the author of the book.

I have worked as a journalist for more than twenty years, mainly in London (initially for the BBC and later for a TV station called the “European Sports Network”, ESPN’s – now defunct – European affiliate) and in Paris (for another sports channel) where I have lived since 1993. (Before that, I was involved in the dry cleaning industry in the Philippines, but that is a story I want to keep for another day.)

The idea for the book came to me when I realized that people were actually much more interested in the “trivia of life” than in detailed lectures on art, history, architecture – the things most tourists’ guides are crammed with (endless successions of King Louis’s, all numbered as though they were Super Bowls, their annoying mistresses and painters of whom you have heard little and for whom you care less). When touring friends and visitors through our Parisian neighborhood, I discovered that they only brightened up when told that a scene from French Kiss had been shot right underneath their bedroom window – having displayed, until then, what I would call a polite interest in the buildings formerly inhabited by Picasso and Toulouse-Lautrec down our road. And this was true for people from all walks of the intellectual life – including (and particularly so, I suspected after a while) for people who had spent a great deal of time learning about art and history at college. Read more about the author of Paris Movie Walks ...

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