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Sunday suppers: If you're in Paris, you're invited Carol Pucci, Seattle Times travel writer PARIS It's Sunday night, and in apartments all
over the city, people are sitting down to dinner, perhaps with friends,
sharing good food, wine and lively conversation. Wouldn't it be fun to
score an invitation? Maybe discover a new neighborhood and see what it's
like inside those old buildings with the big wooden doors? Better yet,
why not just invite yourself?...>> |
The Eternal Optimist Julie Pecheur, The Paris Times, N.11, Sept 2006 To some people, life is great. Fun. Wonderful. Every
day. Every minute. These people read the newspapers and see the same clouds
as everyone else, but to them, humans are not selfish, arrogant jerks,
but rather a constant source of wonder, an excuse to share, the possibility
of love. They admit to a few obstacles along the way, but they think of
them as gifts, mere steps to an even better and happier life. Jim Haynes
is one of these people. "That's the way I am," he explains,
"I've always been optimistic and incredibly happy."...>> |
Yes, he'll get by with a little help... John Lloyd, The Financial Times Weekend January 16/17, 1999 ALWAYS OPEN to every experience and never one to be shamed,
Jim Haynes still believes in the Sixties after all these years. John Lloyd
reportsJim Haynes is a 1960s man for the connoisseur, for those who saw
and see in that period (which lasted to the 1970s) a quite serious and
bold venture...>>
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Sunday dinners in Paris: just call Jim Alex Ninian, The Chicago Tribune, Sunday, 2002 PARIS "Get off Metro 4 at Alesia in arrondissement
14eme and head for No. 83, rue de la Tombe Issoire." |
The Human Factor Deborah Courtnell, The Guardian (London), August 14, 1993 JIM HAYNES is a seductive bear of a man, a sort of cross
between Charles Bronson and Ernest Hemingway, brown jumper tucking neat
paunch beneath immaculate cream suit. Not bad for 59. Since he isn't dead,
he must be a born-again; a reincarnation from another time when people
walked everywhere and talked to each other in the streets. He has roamed
across the fractured lands of modern...>> |
Alternative arts man Michale Coveney, Financial Times, March 10, 1984 After he had launched Britain's first paperback bookshop
in Edinburgh in 1959, Jim Haynes became a crucial figure in the Performing
Arts. He made things happen. He initiated the fringe theatre movement
in this country. An ex-member of the U.S. Air Force, he became, along
with fellow ex-pats Charles Marowitz and Ed Berman, a key spokesman for...>>
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It's weird, it's wonderful - it must be Edinburgh Andy Lavender, The Times (London), August 2, 1999 With August festival fever about to strike, Andy Lavender
looks back at some of the triumphs and disasters that bear the stamp of
the world's biggest celebration of the arts. |
Jim Haynes Sunday Dinners Taylor Beidler, Frommers.com, March 9, 2006 They happen almost every Sunday night, they've been happening
since the 70's, I've been reading articles about it for years and this
time to Paris I was able to go to dinner at Jim's! |
Life is one big party Raymond Ross, Edinburgh Evening News, August 27, 1992 Raymond Ross meets Jim Haynes, an American in Paris and first chairman of the [Edinburgh] Traverse Theater. IN THE autumn of 1956 a young man by the name of Jim
Haynes from Haynesville, Louisiana, arrived at the US airbase at Kirknewton
[outside Edinburgh, Scotland] to do his [US] military service. |
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A lust for life Alan Taylor, Evening News, April 8, 1999 SEX in the city of Edinburgh began in the spring of 1959.
We can be so precise about the date because it was at that point that
a tall American moseyed into town. His name was Jim Haynes and he inspired
a sexual revolution that was to put the ancient, stuffed-shirt Capital
at the forefront of the Sixties' counter-culture. Incredible as it may
seem...>> |
Do your own thing: a call to counter-culture Mick Brown, The Daily Telegraph, November 6, 1993 WHEN Jim Haynes first arrived in Edinburgh from America
in 1956, the city was 'dark, dank, cold - everything under yellow smog'.
There was one coffee-house. The Edinburgh Festival featured only classical
music and the big national theatre companies. 'There was nothing fringe,
off-beat, radical or crazy', he remembers. Jim Haynes made up his mind
to put it there...>> |
A message: please ring Jim Haynes in Paris Jeremy Atyah, The Independent (London), May 17, 1998 WOULD ANYONE out there like to meet an American called
Jim Haynes? I am talking about the Jim Haynes who lives in Atelier A-2,
at 83 Rue de la Tombe Issoire in Paris (post code 75014), and whose telephone
number is 00 331 4327 1767. |
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A visit to the home front in Poland Nicholas Lezard, The Independent, March 22, 1992 THE FRONTIERS of travel are no longer geographical: if
you can rustle up a few hundred pounds you can go almost anywhere. The
problem is that as a tourist, contact with the locals means a humiliating
exchange of incomprehension and distrust with receptionists, guides, bar
staff and waiters. In order to combat this, Jim Haynes has compiled Poland:
People to People (Canongate Press, pounds 4.95)...>> |
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