La Cougar

Colette had one heck of a time in turn-of-the-century Paris. She married young, divorced quickly, took up with many notable women of the day (including Natalie Barney and Josephine Baker), married again, started a hospital for injured soldiers, had an affair with her stepson, was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, divorced again, married again, hid her Jewish third husband in the attic during the Nazi occupation, and became president of the Académie Goncourt. In between all that scandal, she managed to write wildly popular novels about an aging courtesan and her young lover, Cheri.

Now the novel has been made into a movie starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Rupert Friend. You can win tickets to a preview screening on Thursday, June 25. Just email cherimoviemn@gmail.com to enter the drawing. Tell them M&Q sent you.--David E