hopefuls waiting for their big break. You can find them on the beach or

if you get lucky, bump into one of them at Schwab's Drugstore on Sunset

Blvd. At least that's where, according to legend, a Hollywood agent

discovered the divine Lana Turner in the 1930's. If that same agent

lived in Paris in the 1880s, I wonder what he would think about the

beautiful barmaid at the Folies-Bergère, the one that Édouard Manet

immortalized in his famous painting. Though the girls there were known

for their easy virtues, this melancholic beauty seems lost in her own

thoughts and not the least bit interested in responding to us viewers

or the customer standing in front of her...