Depardieu – surviving a street kid start in life

Actor Gérard Depardieu – ‘the best and worst of France’- with a cast-iron liver and one-time buddy of Putin has a new well-received film out. The miracle is he’s still alive, having reputedly once downed 14 bottles of wine in one binge and still smoking after a quadruple heart bypass some years back, plus multiple motorcycle crashes.  He exiled himself from France over high taxation rates, buddied up with Putin, who he reckoned was a hoodlum like himself, thou