Two weeks ago when they arrived here, Nicolas was a pasty sun-deprived Parisian. By night, he often serves as the SUV driver for his fellow musical Frenchmen on their LA business/holiday. By day, he flops out like a seal on the rocks, moving with the sun, in and out of water, shrewdly avoiding the encroaching shade (above), so that when his pod departs this weekend, he'll bring a West Coast tan back to The Continent.