While I am drawing and watching tivo at the same time (I love to do two things simultaneously, especially those ones), I accidently bumped via-screen into a documentary on Pierre Brice, a french actor from the sixties and what interest us most here : known better as the guy famous for being not famous, let me explain…

Pierre was apparently neither at the right time : he was sharing his first roles with Alain Delon and Paul Belmondo, nor at the right place, while everything was HOT and happening in Cinecitta or Paris, big boy supposedly decided to go to Germany.

Pierre’s big hit was to star in über-famous german-western movies as Winnetou, an Indian Apache chief (as he was from Brittany, France I guess he had a life-discount on tanning salons as well) he gained a real cult-following over there while nobody knew who he was in France since we were too busy with Nouvelle-vague.

It seems like Pierre never had too much of a vision for his work or career until the point he realized he could never get away from his Apache role, so he tried everything he could to get away from it : he sang, he waited for some french directors to call him and finally agreed to play in Star Maidens.

Let me do  copy/paste the pitch quickly from Wiki : The series offered a battle of the sexes/role reversal scenario in which two male domestics escape from the female-ruled planet Medusa, land on Earth and are pursued by the Medusan security forces. When the Medusans fails to recapture the two men, they take two Earth hostages – a man and a woman – back with them to their home planet. The thirteen episodes of the series deal with the two groups trying to adapt to life on the different planets whilst brokering an exchange for the hostages. INTERESTING HA ??? Next time I go to Germany IMA grab those DVD’s and watch it with my girlfriends in pajamas !!!