Alain Delon, French Film Star Turned Racist

The election of the new Miss France continues to bring interesting stories.

Alain Delon, French heart throb and film star, and chief judge for the Miss France contest, resigned as lifetime president back in October. He is a member of the Front National, "known for its strongly anti-immigrant agenda."

...[M]ovie star Alain Delon quit as honorary president for life in October in a row over his backing of the far-right National Front party.

Organisers of the contest had berated Delon for comments supporting the anti-immigration Front National, its founder Jean-Marie Le Pen and his daughter, current party leader Marine Le Pen. [Source]

Here is more on Delon's association with the Front National:

...[L]e président d'honneur à vie du comité Miss France Alain Delon faisait en effet scandale en expliquant dans une interview au Matin qu’il trouvait la poussée […] du Front national « tout à fait édifiant[e] ». « Édifiant parce que les gens en ont marre qu’on leur parle comme on le fait. Ils veulent de l’action, ils veulent autre chose. » « Voilà pourquoi le Front national, […] prend une place très importante et ça, je l’approuve, je le pousse et le comprends parfaitement bien », avait-il ajouté. [Source]

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...The honorary President for life for Miss France Alain Delon created quite a scandal when he explained in an interview to the Matin that he found the direction of the Front National "completely uplifting." "Uplifting because people have had it with the way they're talked to. They want action, they want something else. That is why the Front National has taken such an important place, and I approve of that, I support it, and I understand it perfectly well," he added.

Delon is not the only French film star to take on this "right" position on immigration and race. Brigitte Bardot, whom many derided as the "Seal Goddess" for her fight against the killing of seals for fur coats, has also been in the news denouncing immigration, and specifically Muslim immigration.

I am not surprised that Delon joined the judging committee for Miss France. Another article linked to the one above says:

Alain Delon regrette que "les femmes soient devenues des hommes."

Alain Delon regrets that "women have become men."

Below is an excerpt from the article:

"De plus en plus de femmes sont devenues des hommes », alors qu'elles devraient incarner la "féminité absolue" sur le modèle de Miss France, a déclaré Alain Delon dans une interview au Figaro Magazine. Quant aux hommes, l'acteur regrette qu'ils ne passent plus par l'armée, qui enseignait les "valeurs nécessaires à la construction d'un homme jeune".

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"More and more women have become men," while they should be embodying "supreme femininity" modeled after Miss France, declared Alain Delon in an interview with Figaro Magazine. As for men, the actor regrets that they no longer go through the army, which used to teach the "values necessary for the formation of a young man."

It is not surprising that Delon joined the executive committee for Miss France. Whatever the ideas (and ideologies) behind the competition, it is still primarily about beauty, and the election of the most beautiful woman.

Plus, Delon personally knows something about beauty (besides the beautiful women he met during his film career). He is the male version of beautiful: handsome. At least he was so in his younger days.
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