Just give us one. "Okay, Chez Janou. It's a little more
laid-back restaurant, a little more hip. It's just outside the
Marais. The
food is Provençale, and it's amazing. You have to get
the chocolate mousse when you're there, because it comes in this
big tub, a big bowl, and you just scoop out the mousse, and, oh my
goodness, it's so yummy. It's on a fabulous street corner, and it
feels like you're in a real neighborhood. We love that. They have
wonderful stuffed peppers. And their rabbit is excellent, if you
eat meat."
Let's talk about shopping. In Le Divorce, there's a red
Hermès bag that figures prominently in the plot. "Oh, no, you
can't do that when you're in
Paris. You can get Hermès bags
anywhere. No, I never do stuff like that. I'd go to stores you
can't go to anywhere else. Like Colette. That's my favorite store
in Paris. Then there's L'eclaireur in the Marais. It's like
Maxfield's in
Los Angeles, with local designers, some Dries Van
Noten, and beautiful things I'd never seen before. The Marais is
the best place to go shopping; it's the most young and hip
area."
Where are the best after-hours spots? "I'm not a club
person, but my husband and I did go hear some music. We went to see
[jazz pianist] Ahmad Jamal at that beautiful concert hall. … Oh,
it's a famous one. It's really high up. There are a lot of
balconies. When you walk in, it's almost like a circle, and the
balcony kind of circles up. But the best was The Zenith, where we
went to see
Bob Dylan. The Zenith is more like an arena. It's not
the most charming. It's not like the Paradiso [in Amsterdam], you
know, where I went to see the Black Crowes. But it was amazing
because it was Bob and he's always amazing. As for the other, I'll
have to ask my husband. He remembers all this stuff. [She calls out
to her husband.] 'Honey, your help. Where did we go see Ahmad
Jamal?' " [He answers sweetly, "The Olympia."]