Bernard Pivot (born 5 May 1935) is a journalist, interviewer and host of French cultural television programmes. May 5 is the 125th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (126th in leap years). ... 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people. ...

Pivot was born in Lyon, France, the son of grocers. During World War II his father, Charles Pivot, was taken prisoner and his mother moved to the family home to the village of Quincié-en-Beaujolais, where Bernard Pivot started school. City motto: Avant, avant, Lion le melhor. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

In 1945 his father was released, and the reunited family returned to Lyon. At age 10, Pivot went to a Catholic boarding school and discovered a consuming passion for sport, a passion which helped teachers to overlook his general mediocrity in all traditional school subjects except French language and history. 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ... History is a term for information about the past. ...

After starting studies in law in Lyon, Pivot entered the CFJ (Centre de formation des journalistes) in Paris, where he met his future wife, Monique. He graduated second in his class. Law (a loanword from Old Norse lag), in politics and jurisprudence, is a set of rules or norms of conduct which mandate, proscribe or permit specified relationships among people and organizations, provide methods for ensuring the impartial treatment of such people, and provide punishments for those who do not follow... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

After a training period at "Le progrès" in Lyon, he studied economic journalism for a full year, then joined the Figaro littéraire in 1958. 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

In 1970, he hosted a daily humorous radio programme which often raised political issues, which was not appreciated by Georges Pompidou. 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou (July 5, 1911–April 2, 1974) was President of France from 1969 until his death in 1974. ...

In 1971 the Figaro littéraire closed and Pivot joined Le Figaro. He left however in 1974 after a disagreement with Jean d'Ormesson. Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber invited him to start a new project, which led to the creation of a new magazine, Lire, a year later. 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Le Figaro is one of the leading French morning daily newspapers. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Jean Lefèvre, comte dOrmesson (born June 16, 1925) is a French novelist, mostly writing partially or totally autobiographic novels. ... Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, often referred to as JJSS (born February 13, 1924) is a French journalist and politician. ...

Meanwhile, in April 1973 he had started hosting a programme called Ouvrez les Guillemets on the France's first TV network. In 1974, the ORTF was dissolved and Pivot started his famous Apostrophes programme. Apostrophes was first broadcast on Antenne 2 on January 10, 1975, and ran until 1990. Pivot then created the equally famous Bouillon de culture, whose scope he tried to broaden beyond books. He eventually came back to books, however. 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... The Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF) was the national agency charged, between 1964 and 1974, with providing public radio and television in France. ... France 2 is the largest French public TV network. ... January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Spelling championships

In 1985, with linguist Micheline Sommant, Pivot created the Championnats d'orthographe (spelling championships) which in 1992 became Championnats mondiaux d'orthographe (world spelling championships) then in 1993 the Dicos d'or (golden dictionaries). 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Spelling is the writing of a word or words with all necessary letters and diacritics present in the correct order. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003) Events Media:January January 1 - Czechoslovakia divides. ...

These yearly contests are held in three phases:

• During the spring, selection tests are organised with the press, in particular with "Lire", and in a few local communities (e.g. schools). These are multiple-choice questionnaires.
• During the fall, the selected candidates meet region by region at the semi-finals. They get again multiple-choice questionnaires, and a dictation.
• Then, during winter, the finals are held at a single place.

There are four categories: school juniors, juniors, professional seniors and amateur seniors.

Participation is free of charge, except for the cost of the magazines that publish the selection tests.

Bernard Pivot and James Lipton

One day, when flicking through the TV channels, James Lipton happened upon a programme on cable TV that showed French people discussing around a bottle of wine. "They're having a good time", he thought. He half watched it, and eventually realized that the conversation was quite lively, that he was hearing quite interesting things about a lot of unexpected subjects, that the programme relied on solid content, unlike the programmes he had seen up to that time where artists appeared on TV only to promote their latest work in clichéed terms. James Lipton (born September 19, 1926, Detroit, Michigan) is dean of the Actors Studio Drama School at the New School University in New York City. ... Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (and often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio waves transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional...

He was inspired.

"That's what TV should be like", he thought, and with that in mind he created Inside the Actors Studio, which made him famous. At the end of every episode, he asks his guests to answer a series of questions. For the first few episodes, he asked guests to answer a series of questions that he presented as the questionnaire of great Bernard Pivot, of Apostrophes and Bouillon de culture (a ritual expression he deliberately reused each time.) Pivot, indeed, had devised a questionnaire à la Proust and used to present it to his own guests at the end of his shows. Inside the Actors Studio is a program on the Bravo cable television channel which premiered in 1995 and is hosted by James Lipton. ... Valentin-Louis-Georges-Eugène-Marcel Proust (July 10, 1871–November 18, 1922) was a French intellectual, novelist, essayist and critic, best known as the author of In Search of Lost Time (in French À la recherche du temps perdu, also translated previously as Remembrance of Things Past), a monumental work...

Pivot eventually heard about Lipton's questionnaire, and was surprised when he saw an episode: here was a humble Frenchman's programme inspiring an American show, and in such a way that the original programme was mentioned and honoured, instead of having its core ideas being just stolen.

In later episodes of Inside the Actors Studio, Lipton continued to credit Pivot for the questionnaire, even after changing or eliminating several of Pivot's questions (e.g. no longer asking, "What is your favorite drug?" or "Who would you like to see on a new banknote?" or "If you were reincarnated as some other plant or animal, what would it be?").

At that time, the final episode of Bouillon de Culture was in preparation. Pivot wrote to Lipton—they had never met before—in French, starting his letter "Cher amirateur" (untranslatable play on words: a cross between "dear admirer" and "dear friend"), and invited Lipton to appear on the episode. Lipton enthusiastically accepted. "Me, in Pivot's show? My heart is going to stop right away!", he stated to the French press. Nothing much actually happened between the two men during the show, as each of them seemed to be too impressed by the other to be at ease. But the show looked like a "passing of the flame" between the two men as well as a historical and symbolical cultural encounter.

Lipton is currently attempting to have the extant Apostrophes and Bouillon de Culture programmes dubbed into English for broadcast in the United States (rather than subtitled, in light of the American aversion to this form of translation). Since the notoriety of Inside the Actors Studio already brought Pivot to the public's attention, even though most of them never saw him, and thanks to the quality of some of Pivot's shows, Lipton believes that they would be successful, perhaps even creating new fans. In filmmaking, dubbing refers to the recording of voices for a movie. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... In printed material In printed material, a subtitle is an explanatory or alternate title. ... Translation is an activity comprising the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language—the called the source text—and the production of a new, equivalent text in another language—called the target text, or the translation. ...