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  • Once the film began, two things were almost immediately apparent: Miss Taglioni is indeed tall, beautiful and talented (she pretty much walks away with the movie) and, yes, this is another of those watches that makes you laugh.

    GreenCine Daily: Rendez-Vous. 12. 2007

  • I sure like the sound of that, "Senator Al Franken", or if you are old enough to remember the classic sketch, "Pete Tagiani" (Pete Taglioni) if you are a Tom Davis fan.

    Senate Guru: Where the Minnesota Senate Race Stands 2009

  • All of which puts the burden squarely on the shoulders of Taglioni, who single-handedly creates a new stereotype: the supermodel with a heart of gold (Naomi Campbell, are you taking notes?).

    GreenCine Daily: Rendez-Vous. 12. 2007

  • Léa Fazer directs Alice Taglioni, currently on view in, as they say, selected cities, in The Valet, Jocelyn Quivrin and Thierry Lhermite.

    GreenCine Daily: Up-n-coming, 4/20. 2007

  • In his own brief introduction to his film, Veber kept returning again and again to how marvelously tall, beautiful and talented its leading lady, Alice Taglioni, is.

    GreenCine Daily: Rendez-Vous. 12. 2007

  • Lady Fanny flew, rather than danced, across the ball-room; only a Sylphide, or Taglioni, or a lady chausseed by Chevillett of Bond Street could move in that fairy way; and

    Burlesques 2006

  • Will the young folks ever see anything so charming, anything so classic, anything like Taglioni?

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • The next night he came in late, and stayed very quietly for the afterpiece, and on the third and last night of his stay in London — why, Taglioni was going to dance at the Opera, — Taglioni! and there was to be Don Giovanni, which he admired of all things in the world: so

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • Lady Fanny flew, rather than danced, across the ball-room; only a Sylphide, or Taglioni, or a lady chausseed by Chevillett of Bond Street could move in that fairy way; and

    Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

  • Not till the music stopped did she sink down on a seat, panting, and smiling radiant — as many many hundred years ago I remember to have seen Taglioni after a conquering pas seul.

    The Newcomes 2006

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