[Kitsa]

Poor Serge Gainsbourg.

I saw Jane Birkin in concert a few years ago and it was wonderful. Except, those of us who actually knew who she was (me, who got a museum membership just to qualify for early order tickets to get the best seat possible the moment they became available, and some French foreign-exchange students behind me) were seated well behind about 20 rows of people who had just shown up because she was part of the museum concert series and had no clue about her or Gainsbourg.

You should have heard the collective moan of misery and horror when a woman turned to her companion and said, "Now, who is this again? What does she do?"