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In Woody Allen's latest, Midnight in Paris, Marion Cotillard's girl-about-town yearns to abandon the (very) roaring twenties in favor of a time-capsule airlift to the romantic, and just a touch bawdy, salon scene of la belle poque. She's not the only one feeling nostalgic. On Thursday evening, the Frick Collection hosted its Young Fellows Ball with that very theme in minda likely choice, given the museum's current exhibition, Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting. A semi-private viewing of those works, which celebrate la vie parisienne in the 1870s and 1880s, was well worth the ticket price, provided you didn't find the thumping club music in an adjacent gallery a touch incongruous...(read more)