Les Variations: Cafe De Paris (Buddah)
Robot A. Hull, Creem, June 1975
THE FRENCH ARE the coolest breed (that's a fact), even more cool than blacks or faggots. Rimbaud and Cocteau were no poopoos, fella. In fact, the only people cooler than the French are the retards (but we ain't reviewing no Paul Williams at the moment).
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