Bernard Pivot

８９年にフランス２の金曜日夜の名物番組Bernard Pivot アポストﾛフが休止することになったことを
NYTはちゃんと報道している。
''Apostrophes'' turned viewers into readers and helped sell books. The Competition: U.S. Soaps
Mr. Pivot, a former journalist, found a formula to draw Friday night audiences away from
American soap operas and French variety shows for a brush with high culture.

Swivelling on his chair and nudging his half-moon spectacles back into place, he moderated
elevated debates with no intellectual snobbery.

He introduced John Irving, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Vladimir Nabokov to the French and
popularized the French school of anti-Marxist New Philosophers.

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/05/books/french-tv-show-on-books-is-ending.html

そしてついに90年に終了
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/23/style/chronicle-842990.html