It is a crime under the Act to send "by means of a public electronic communications network" a message or other material that is "grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character".
In last week's release Populaire, the suave Romain Duris character is asked to stop smoking in the office by the new secretary, played by Déborah François.
"Oscar de La Renta sleeveless silk, full-skirted dress with black patent-leather bow belt – now that is pure poetry," the character once said.
Sadly, Pat, our supremely selfish protagonist, is the only truly fleshed-out character in the film.
People who are systematically oppressed do have to work harder than those who are privileged, and the positive spin is often that it builds character.
The puffin seems eminently suitable to be our national bird: a dapper little character who is equally at home on sea or land, given to hedonistic feasting when the seasons allow, but also capable of austere self-denial (they spend their winters out in the North Atlantic).
The downside of such a unique situation and character is, of course, the Riviera price tag, often as steep as the Lattari mountains themselves.
Can "playing a character" on stage mitigate personal responsibility for the content of what you're saying/doing in any way?
"Everyone had a character, an act, a play, a rant, and there were stages to do them on and audiences anxious to catch them," says Michael Musto, long-time chronicler of the New York scene for the Village Voice.
"Some people have had a go at me about including that kind of a character and those kinds of words in the series, but I can't write about Alice Springs if I don't include that character," she says.
"They absolutely made me think that I was playing the character in The Beach," McGregor told the Times in 2011.
