JOEL ROSE, HOST:
We're going to take a moment now to remember an artist who worked in an unusual medium. Some people paint. Others make films or sculptures. Noel Godin's medium was cream pies, and his canvas - the human face. Godin died this past week at the age of 80, according to his publisher, Les Editions Noir sur Blanc. Noel Godin was a Belgian anarchist, actor and social commentator, but he was best known for his entartage (ph). That's the French word he coined for his pie-ings (ph). We only attack the wicked, he told the LA Times in 1997 - the great and the wicked. Godin's pies found the faces of film legend Jean-Luc Godard, former French prime minister (ph) Nicolas Sarkozy and Bill Gates. But his favorite target was the French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, whom he and his collaborators pied no less than seven times.
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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Speaking French).
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UNIDENTIFIED CROWD: Oh. Oh.
UNIDENTIFIED CROWD: (Speaking French).
ROSE: That was the second time in 1988, as seen on France 3.
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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Speaking French).
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NOEL GODIN: (Speaking French).
ROSE: In an interview for the 1998 documentary "Homo Cinematographicus," Noel Godin opined, quote, "let's make our lives an action film, a burlesque comedy with nothing but highlights. It's up to us." Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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