Dutch actor Sylvia Kristel, the subject (dare we say, target?) of every French teenager's amour fou, has passed on. In 1974, the film "Emmanuelle," directed by Just Jaeckin made a killing at the box office (according to Wikipedia this was France's biggest box-office hit ever, in fact), Kristel immediately becoming a symbol of eroticism from Japan to the U.S. after that. Her agent, Features ... more >