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The Eye of INA: Yves Mourousi, the journalist who invented the "tele hits"

2023-04-15T07:12:37.650Z


The star presenter of the 13 hours of TF1 who disappeared 20 years ago has returned to legend by imagining live broadcasts such as the newspaper of October 3, 1979 produced from Tiananmen Square. Madelen invites you to see it or see it again.


If Yves Mourousi, who died 20 years ago, presented 1 p.m. on TF1 today, he would probably not have failed to produce a special edition from Beijing, on the occasion of Emmanuel Macron's trip to China.

Star journalist of the channel in the 70s and 80s, he entered the legend of the small screen, becoming "

the man of the firsts

", the pioneer of "

television hits

".

On several occasions, he signed direct that none of his colleagues had ever dared to imagine.

Among them, there was, during the time of the USSR, the interview of Leonid Brezhnev, then Soviet number one, but also, on October 3, 1979, at a time when China was beginning to open up to France. , a Diary from Tiananmen Square.

We invite you, with Madelen, to see or re-watch the first four minutes where, accompanied by Gérard Saint-Paul, correspondent for the channel in China, Mourousi, surrounded by children, explains the reasons for his presence, and this, without the slightest note.

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Improvisation has never been a problem for him.

It is thus impossible to count the number of times when this gifted information man arrived at his office, a little before noon, to study and digest, in record time, the subjects of the day, meticulously prepared by his collaborators.

He never showed the slightest anxiety when he tumbled onto the set, a few seconds before the live broadcast, before standing next to Marie-Laure Augry to launch his traditional "

hello

".

He owes this idea to Fabrice Emaer, owner of a Parisian restaurant, 7, where he dined several times a week.

Each time, the master of the place welcomed him by launching at full force this interjection which has become his trademark.

Doctor Yves and Mister Mourousi

One evening in the mid-1970s, returning from New York where he had just spent an eight-day vacation, Mourousi told Emaer of his enthusiasm for discovering a discotheque that had just opened its doors, a club where the nascent disco is king: Studio 54. “

You have to do the same thing in Paris!

he says to Emaer.

The latter listens carefully and decides, a few weeks later, to buy an abandoned Parisian theater, “

Le Palace

”.

He then ignores the extent of a success that will make the two floors and the restaurant in the basement, “

Le Privilège

”, a mythical place.


Mourousi, present on the evening of the opening, moral godfather of a place which owes him a lot, regularly goes there to make a random detour on nocturnal trips considered, at the time, by the media, as a secret garden that the we do not talk about it publicly.

In the press, we regularly speak of "

Doctor Yves

", but we never mention "

Mister Mourousi

" who, several times a week, shortly after 9 p.m., leaves his Pierre Cardin suit to put on a leather jacket, before going get on your motorbike, to live intensely the nights of a Paris where the party is everywhere.



In this busy schedule, this seemingly indefatigable hard worker also found time to present, other shows,

Bon appétit

” where he made the Bogdanoff brothers’ debut.

He also imagined and directed, at the end of the 1970s, Nights of the Army, at the Jardin des Tuileries.

Under a marquee installed on a basin, Thierry le Luron, Tino Rossi and a few others performed in front of thousands of people.

It seems commonplace today, but at that time, the large halls that made it possible to reach this figure did not exist.

Also a circus enthusiast, he adapted and staged "

Barnum

", a musical comedy that sold out on Broadway, at the Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione.



Finally endowed with an extraordinary sense of marketing, he made his marriage to Véronique a media event.

He took advantage of an evening organized in his honor by Eddie Barclay, in Saint-Tropez to formalize a union that no one had dared to imagine.

A year later, in Nîmes, in a church, the lovers said “

yes

” to each other in front of a crowd of personalities, including Charles Aznavour who, at the foot of the altar, interpreted the Ave Maria.

This is to say if, somewhere, Mourousi was at least as powerful as those who, for 13 years, made the news of his newspaper.

October 3, 1979: Yves Mourousi presents the 1 p.m. of TF1 live from Beijing

Source: lefigaro

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