Alain Delon, icon of French cinema died on Aug. 18. (Credit: L'Orient-Le Jour archives/Montage by Jaimee Lee Haddad)
Aboard a Middle East Airlines Boeing, Alain Delon's leather jacket was draped over his shoulders, his sleeves rolled up and his face tanned. He tried to soothe and reassure his partner for 12 years, actress Mireille Darc, who was in the middle of a panic attack.Darc, anxious to land in Beirut on Feb. 7, 1980, told Delon that she will return to Paris at the first suspicious noise.In the gutted Lebanese capital, shells rained down and cannons roared as a civil war continued with no truce in sight. Delon was not afraid, as he returned from a romantic holiday in Kenya to make good on a promise he had made to a handful of businessmen wishing to market the products he sponsored. Read also Georges Khabbaz, Adel Karam in 'Khiyal Sahra': The Lebanese Civil War in hindsight On the widest walkway of Rafik Hariri International Airport (RHIA),...
Aboard a Middle East Airlines Boeing, Alain Delon's leather jacket was draped over his shoulders, his sleeves rolled up and his face tanned. He tried to soothe and reassure his partner for 12 years, actress Mireille Darc, who was in the middle of a panic attack.Darc, anxious to land in Beirut on Feb. 7, 1980, told Delon that she will return to Paris at the first suspicious noise.In the gutted Lebanese capital, shells rained down and cannons roared as a civil war continued with no truce in sight. Delon was not afraid, as he returned from a romantic holiday in Kenya to make good on a promise he had made to a handful of businessmen wishing to market the products he sponsored. Read also Georges Khabbaz, Adel Karam in 'Khiyal Sahra': The Lebanese Civil War in hindsight On the widest walkway of Rafik Hariri International Airport (RHIA),...
