Two years before making this appearance in Cannes for the first time, David Bowie had been his grand entrance in cinema, starring Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth (he was Thomas Jerome Newton, the man who fell to Earth). Now, two years later, Bowie – and a team very easy on the eyes – was in Cannes to promote the David Hemmings-directed Just a Gigolo, the tale of a World War I hero who becomes a gigolo in Berlin, under the watching eye of a madam played by Marlene Dietrich. The picture bombed spectacularly, but Bowie soon would be acclaimed in Cannes in 1983, with directors Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence and Tony Scott’s The Hunger.