Get a closer look at some of Hollywood's perfect pairs.

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Get a closer look at some of Hollywood&#39;s perfect pairs.

"The Gentlemen" and "Slow Horses" return this fall, while the "Reacher" spin-off series "Neagley" makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

2026 Fall TV and Streaming Watch Guide

&quot;The Gentlemen&quot; and &quot;Slow Horses&quot; return this fall, while the &quot;Reacher&quot; spin-off series &quot;Neagley&quot; makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

Get a closer look at these actors from their many TV and streaming series roles.

Streaming Stars, Then and Now

Bataille's difficult childhood (his father blind and paralyzed, died when Georges was a teen; his mother attempted suicide) fuels his last novel, Ma mère, discovered after Georges Bataille's death. In the novel, a pious Catholic boy, planning to become a priest to spite his controlling, atheist father, reveres his free-willed mother. When the father dies, the unfettered mother propels her teenage son into a wild erotic journey. Georges Bataille himself was discharged from the Army during World War I for tuberculosis, studied to be a monk, then renounced Catholicism. He often battled poor health.

Bataille's novels were mostly under pseudonyms, and all feature aggressive female protagonists. Artists some consider swayed by Bataille include musician/actress Björk, and her occasional collaborator, experimental film director Matthew Barney. To open his novel Deliverance (1972), James Dickey quoted Bataille.

Bataille established and edited a respected scholarly journal, wrote poetry, and essays. Bataille founded a secret society, which was anti-fascist. Tears of Eros is his history of love and violence.

Georges' first wife Sylvia Bataille was an acclaimed French actress (Jean Renoir's The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936) and A Day in the Country (1946), in which Georges played a priest). Bataille worked as an archivist, but had increasing difficulty finding a day job. Sylvia later married the psychiatrist Jacques Lacan, whose controversial theories were influenced by the Surrealists, with whom Georges had a turbulent relationship.

The Batailles' daughter Laurence emulated her stepfather, and her parents: she became a psychiatrist, and acted in Renoir's movie French Cancan (1954). Laurence was arrested for her support of the Algerian revolution.

Georges Bataille's 1930's lover and colleague, was the beautiful, rebellious writer Colette Peignot. She died at age 35, from TB. Georges also passed away from TB, and soon his daughter Laurence died, at age 36.

<a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0001951/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Björk</a> has been quoted as saying that Bataille was a major inspiration
for her. The broken eggs featured heavily in her Venus as a Boy music
video are a homage to the theme of eggs in Story of the Eye.

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