The outcome of the US presidential election was contested by incumbent President Donald Trump and his supporters. On January 6, 2021, they stormed the Capitol in Washington. American justice accuses Donald Trump for his role in this case. Interviewed on the subject, journalist Philippe LABRO, gives his point of view on the Trump trial that opens.
Interviewed in duplex by Christine OCKRENT, Philippe LABRO, who wrote forty songs for Johnny HALLYDAY, explains the success of the singer by his extraordinary ability to adapt to all eras and all modes. He notes that Johnny has always successfully chosen the lyricists and composers who would allow him to bounce back in his "hollow" periods.
Philippe LABRO, who spent several days in a coma following an edema, evokes his experience of "imminent death" (NDE or NDE), without knowing if it is an aborted passage to "elsewhere", and therefore a form of life after death, or simply an effect on his brain due to morphines that had been injected.
Live from the restaurant Lasserre, in Paris, the journalist Sylvie MARION speaks with Philippe LABRO, winner of the literary prize Interallié 1986 for his novel "L'Etudiant étranger" published by Gallimard. This novel is directly inspired by his own studies in the United States in the 1950s. Philippe LABRO evokes the many letters received from young people who have lived a similar and universal experience of departure towards the unknown...
On the occasion of the realization of his film "L'Héritier" (with Jean-Paul Belmondo), Philippe LABRO, interviewed in a park, explains how his experience as a journalist serves him in cinema to compose the main characters of his films, often inspired by real politicians...
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of May 68, Philippe LABRO, journalist and novelist, reissues a reference book, "This is only a beginning", which he wrote just after this period, and explains how the protagonists of the time have changed, because of life, just as the current period and its social movements have changed, which according to him have nothing to do with those of the late 1960s: "Do not compare, it is too easy, and it does not serve any purpose... It has nothing to do with it!"
Philippe LABRO, journaliste et écrivain, explique pourquoi le choc du 11 septembre 2001 a permis au président George W. Bush de lancer une intervention militaire en Irak sans susciter d'opposition notoire de la part des Américains qui peuvent y trouver le moyen de se venger du traumatisme des attentats.
Philippe LABRO is interviewed by Pierre DESGRAUPES for his book "Un Américain peu tranquille", he tells why Al Capone, famous head of the Chicago mafia, embodies the myth of the American gangster and how he evolved in parallel with the American society of the time.
Philippe LABRO has just directed his first film "Tout peut arriver". The journalist and director lived from the age of 18 to 20 in America. According to him, this country, "This is our time... it’s part of my culture."
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