It’s All Maya!

 Maya Muses:  Starting next week I’m going to be really busy with friends visiting from Paris, then family, then more friends from Paris, and then more family!  It’s going to be this way up until the beginning of Fall and then it’ll be our trip back to Paris!  I don’t know how often I’ll be writing, but if I can’t, I’ll post some of my old ones that I wrote from the Paris Traveler.  I thought an appropriate one to start off with is the one I wrote about my good friend Jackie who is the first one coming for a visit and a little R&R with her life partner Gérard.  It’ll be fun to just sit by the pool, or walk on the beach and play a little tennis if it doesn’t get too hot!

The Red Couch

I went to see a good friend of mine at her workplace who’s retiring early after years at a job she loves. I can still remember when Jackie first started working for Michel Drucker, how happy she was!  It was a dream job right off the Champs-Elysées, not because she met celebrities all the time; she did, but she’s use to it.  No, it was a job she really enjoyed doing.

If you’ve spent anytime in France, then you know who Michel Drucker is. If you haven’t, well think of a famous television personality in your own country that has interviewed just about everyone, no matter if they’re known in the film or music industry, politics, royalty, etc., they’ve all spent time being interviewed by him or her! This sort of gives you an idea of who Michel Drucker is.  He’s sort of like a cross between Larry King and Letterman/Leno.

So-o-o, to get back to me, I decided I should go and sit on his couch while I had the chance! I mean I had been to the studio where they film their weekly television show (Vivement Dimanche) a number of times with Jackie, but I had never sat on the red couch!  According to everyone working there, only invited guest are suppose to sit there!  Hmm, it seemed to me that my options were to wait until I was an invited guest on Michel Drucker’s show, or….go and sit there in between tapings! I chose the latter!

Now, I’m not by any means telling you to go sit on his red couch, but if you would like to go to the taping of one of his shows or one of the other shows on television with an audience in Paris, it really is rather simple. All you have to do is telephone for invitations or tickets! Vivement Dimanche with Michel Drucker is taped on Wednesdays at 14h00 at Studio Gabriel, 9 Avenue Gabriel, Paris 8e. For a list of television shows you can go to a taping of, click here.

Photo Credits:  Personal Photos