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JIM HAYNES |
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Sees hos Jim? Intervju med Jim Haynes
i Paris. Fredrik Drevon, Hvis du er så heldig å befinne deg i Paris en søndag, er du invitert
på middag hos Jim Haynes (73). |
Paris Notes: Auto Bios & a Lady
Named Betty Jim Haynes, In the summer of 1982, while visiting my son, Jesper, in New York
City, I decided to call my friend, Betty Dodson, to see how she was doing
and to plug into her amazing energy and intellect. |
Rendez-vous chez Jim Susan Johnson, Every Sunday for 30 years Jim Haynes has opened his Paris apartment
for dinner. Susan Johnson finally joins the party. |
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Lo scrittore che invita a cena sconosciuti. Chiara Degl'innocenti, VOLETE incontrare persone nuove a Parigi? Non perdete
le cene a casa di Jim Haynes, allora. Meglio di un social network
virtuale, questo originale settantaseienne della Louisiana apre la porta
ogni domenica sera a chi desidera fare nuove amicizie. Jim è uno scrittore
e si è trasferito a Parigi nel 1978: da allora organizza incontri settimanali
mettendo a disposizione casa, cibo e bevande. L'idea è ormai collaudata,
quasi centoventi- mila persone hanno già cenato nell'appartamento di Rue
de la Tombe Issoire scambiando chiacchiere e numeri di telefono. |
A house of free spirits Allan Brown, There are two things in life to which I have particular aversions:
meeting strangers and eating in strangers’ houses. So there are few
less auspicious projects to undertake than a visit to Jim Haynes at his
atelier in Paris. Now 76, Haynes was the man who, with John Calder and
Richard Demarco, founded the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, and who opened
Britain’s first paperback bookshop in the same city. Both events are widely
attested as central in transforming the Festival Fringe into the sprawling,
monolithic jamboree it is today. |
Master of soirées brings back taste of Paris Tim Cornwell, THEY have become a Parisian institution attended by grateful guests
from across the world. |
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Im Untergrund Wo sich der kubanische Kulturattaché und der Trucker aus Arizona
bei einem Teller Suppe begegnen. Freie Salons bieten Reisenden Zugang
zur Dinner-Guerilla einer Stadt. |
Jim Haynes takes Henry Miller down memory lane in Paris Adam Biles, "It's rare that you know your hero. |
Want to meet people in Paris? Vicky Baker, Chez Jim |
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Inviting the World To Dinner Jim Haynes, Every week for the past 30 years, I've hosted a Sunday dinner
in my home in Paris. People, including total strangers, call or e-mail
to book a spot. I hold the salon in my atelier, which used to be a sculpture
studio. The first 50 or 60 people who call may come, and twice that many
when the weather is nice and we can overflow into the garden. |
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...>> |
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)...>> |
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! |
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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Remember Jim Haynes? Edinburgh Evening News, Thursday, February 23, 1984 `I've mellowed. |
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?...>> |
Karma and smarma Clancy Sigal, The Listener, 16 February 1984 Jim Haynes, the Johnny Appleseed of the Sixties counter-culture in London,
Edinburgh, Amsterdam and Paris, disarms criticism by dedicating this 'open
newsletter' to me —and several thousand named others, from Abbul
to Zwerin. Haynes actually knows this number of people (and more) whom
he counts as personal, contactable friends. He is amazing, a true nature's
child of the arts with extraordinary 'green fingers'. Almost everything
he touched, from Edinburgh's Paperback Bookshop...>>
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Alternative arts man Michael 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. |
Break bread, not your budget Athena Tsavliris, Back in the 1980s, Jim Haynes edited a guidebook that contained no hotels,
no restaurants, no museums, monuments, maps, nor any of the usual tourism
trappings. It was filled with about 1,000 brief biographies of people,
in nine Eastern European countries and Russia, who would be prepared to
welcome visitors to their countries. He called them people-to-people guides. |
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Question-Is Jim Haynes really shy? Merritt Clifton, G.L.N., 1984 Jim Haynes is a legend. As with all legends, most who know him recall a wonderful first meeting, a moment when he brought them through the looking glass. I've heard many stories of hellos on buses leading to all-night conversations or making love, and, of course, to creative action-plays, books, films-anything that generates and furthers bright ideas...>> |
Dinner with Jim Haynes Abi Andersen, Foodrambler, 2009 Every Sunday for the past 30 years, people have been wending their way to a converted sculpture studio in Paris to have dinner with Louisiana-born legend Jim Haynes. Over 100,000 people from all over the world have been to his home. Children have been conceived here and come back to cook feasts; artists and writers have found inspiration; models have had photoshoots taken...>> |
20/20 Haynes-Sight Kyle Roderick, Heavy Metal, A whole generation ot artists, punks, non-conformists and poseurs have evolved (or devolved) into these stylishly alienated eighties, totally unaware of the influence that characters like American expatriate Jim Haynes have had on contemporary culture, and hence their lives. A pioneer on the Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam, and Paris art scenes for twenty-seven years, he embodies the libertarian concept of...>> |
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Your House Is Mine Tara McKelvey, Voice-leisure, review, Jan 12, 1992 The International Monetary Fund official who met me in the Hotel Warszawa
restaurant last week had a crisp accent and a scholarly gaze. While describing
his background, he mentioned an acronym I didn't recognize - the B.H.I.
- but I nodded eagerly, assuming it was a branch of the Manetary Fund
that dealt with Eastem Europe...>>
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Giving a little help to his friends Jenny Brown, The Scotsman, February 24, 1992 The Scots aren't renowned for being the most outgoing race. Strangers
are often regarded with suspicion rather than warmly welcomed. I think
of a friend stopping in Lochaline, and saying a cheerful hello to one
of the locals. Once he'd passed he heard the man mutter "Now, I wonder
what he...>> |
60 Seconds with Jim Haynes Kieran Meeke Every week for the past 30 years, Jim Haynes, 75, has hosted a dinner
party in his home in Paris. Anyone who calls or e-mails to book –
even total strangers – is welcome. A play producer, he helped start
the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and The International Times in London.
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Sunday dinners in Paris: just call Jim Alex Ninian, 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, 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...>>
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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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Alternative arts man Michael Coveney, Financial Times, 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...>> |
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...>> |
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