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- Portions of this article are based on the equivalent article from the French Wikipedia, retrieved on April 27, 2012.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Rone Tempest, "Host Bows Out of French Literary Talk Show 'Apostrophes'", Los Angeles Times, September 05, 1989.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "French TV Show on Books Is Ending", Reuters, The New York Times, September 05, 1989.
- 1 2 Roger Cohen, "The Media Business; Books Star on TV, but Only in France", The New York Times, September 10, 1990.
- ↑ Howard Sounes, Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life , Grove Press: 1998, ISBN 0-8021-3697-4, pp. 182-3.
- ↑ IMDb