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The truth is, Parie is not really famous but is one of many
ambitious young performers hoping for a career-boosting break at
Cannes, where she has blagged her way onto the red carpet almost
every night of the two-week festival.
With an arm draped over a security guard outside the Palais des
Festivals, Parie sings a few lines of her song “Ice Cream”, a
saucy rap song that had some chart success last year and has
attracted 100,000 hits on YouTube.
“I want to see French people smiling and laughing,” Parie told
Reuters as she posed for photos with tourists on the Croisette,
her love-heart sunglasses and lace hat topped with a French
tricolor making sure she gets noticed, and possibly taken for a
star.
"This is the red carpet - this is where we go, it's really
nice," she said, pointing to the steps that this year have
carried Dustin Hoffman, Will Smith and Nicole Kidman into the
heart of the world's most prestigious film festival.
For Parie, born in Paris and now living in Los Angeles, it's not
about the movies, it's about the exposure and the experience.
"Basically, today is a different movie, I don’t know yet which
one. But yesterday was awesome, it was amazing, it was packed.
It's just great to go there, it's a great feeling."
(Writing by Robin Pomeroy; Editing by David Goodman)
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