In her book Fame and Frame, the celebrity photographer Pat York includes a shot of actor Jack Nicholson walking away from a modest Proven?al cottage, on the chimney of which stands a peacock. The picture was taken, she wrote, at a property “near the village of La Garde-Freinet, owned by the director Tony Richardson. We had been invited to join other guests – Buck Henry, Anjelica Huston, David Hockney [who painted the swimming pool] and John Gielgud”. The peacock, she said, symbolised “the otherworldly quality of time and place ... at this escapist’s paradise.”
專拍名人的攝影師帕特?約克(Pat York)在其著作《名人與照片的故事》(Fame and Frame)中,選了這樣一張照片——影星杰克?尼克爾森(Jack Nicholson)正走出普羅旺斯(Proven?al)的一座不起眼村舍,煙囪頂上蹲著一只孔雀。她這樣寫道:這張照片攝于托尼?理查森(Tony Richardson)私人所有的小村La Garde-Freinet附近的一幢房屋前。我們有幸與巴克?亨利(Buck Henry)、安吉里卡?休斯頓(Anjelica Huston)、大衛?霍克尼(David Hockney,專畫泳池畫作)以及約翰?吉爾古德(John Gielgud)等知名嘉賓一起獲邀”。她寫道:“在這個避世者居住的世外桃源,孔雀象征著“超凡脫俗的彼岸時空……”