I know Orpheus contains references to many things in Cocteau's world, but I don't know what they are -- try Wikipedia for a start.    From Wordnik.com.  [View from the Northern Border] Reference

We want what the poets in Cocteau’s Orphee want — Etonnez-moi!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Panel 3: Clarity & Obscurity: The Uses and Misuses : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

Cocteau was a friend and patron of Ida Rubinstein.    From Wordnik.com.  [View from the Northern Border] Reference

Cocteau also got the youth exempted from military service.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vitro Nasu » 2007 » June] Reference

Cocteau and Seurat are Doc Technical and Lili's new kittens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pen-Elayne on the Web] Reference

Kaufman raises (by way of Cocteau): Poetry is indispensableif.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction] Reference

The special exhibit was Jean Cocteau, that was also wonderful.    From Wordnik.com.  [skipperjbk8: Is it really possible to buzz like NEON? Like, could I do it?] Reference

This was a favorite theme of Cocteau in his poems, novels and films.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roger Vadim’s Blood and Roses (1960)] Reference

Jean Cocteau: Lettres à André Gide (avec quelques réponses d'André Gide).    From Wordnik.com.  [Eternal Cocteau] Reference

Just like Cocteau, it is impossible to pigeon-hole Paul Miller as an artist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Fabius: Jean Cocteau Goes Multimedia at the Guggenheim] Reference

“Cocteau said, ‘French people are Italian people in a bad mood.’  ”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paris Match] Reference

( "He was hard; it took a diamond to scratch his heart," Cocteau said of him.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet] Reference

Cocteau led a fabled life, full of signs and wonders, some comic, some tragic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eternal Cocteau] Reference

And I was well rewarded with quotes from Baudelaire, Whitman, Cocteau, Emerson ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Taste Is the Worst Vice : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

But Harrington's sometime friend Kenneth Anger was closer to being an American Cocteau.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily: Curtis Harrington, 1928 - 2007.] Reference

Cocteau does so, it turns out, by just telling the story. posted by Matthew @ 10: 30 AM.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girder and Panel] Reference

Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) is one of the most famous French artists from the last century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: June 29, 2003 - July 5, 2003 Archives] Reference

Smith notes how Cocteau once said of a Jean Genet poem, "His obscenity is never obscene.".    From Wordnik.com.  ["Ziggy played for time, jiving us that we were voodoo."] Reference

This (the chorus specifically) reminds me a bit of the Cocteau Twins 'more subdued moments.    From Wordnik.com.  [new and improved with extra punctuation (Music (For Robots))] Reference

In postwar France, playwrights such as Anouilh, Cocteau and Sartre sought a similar alliance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Welcome to Thebes] Reference

Jean Cocteau, Opium — short and indelible diary of his cure in a clinic, with line drawings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books] Reference

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Jean Cocteau: The actual tragedies of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jean Cocteau: The actual tragedies of life...] Reference

(There's another novel, Comte d'Orgel, with an afterword by Cocteau, also published by Pushkin.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet] Reference

Cocteau had made this film with the support of Coco Chanel after having just come out of opium rehab.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spread ArtCulture: Resampling Jean Cocteau at the Guggenheim] Reference

Raymond Radiguet who was born 104 years ago on June 18, influenced both Jean Cocteau and Yukio Mishima.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vitro Nasu » 2007 » June] Reference

Here's an appreciation of his work on music: Stephen Schloesser, SJ, Maritain on Music: His Debt to Cocteau.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catholic Culture Adds Arts Library] Reference

Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky has re-scored the entire Cocteau movie for the Telos Ensemble, who will perform live.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Fabius: Jean Cocteau Goes Multimedia at the Guggenheim] Reference

Jean Cocteau was his mentor and it is Cocteau's biography of Radiguet which gives a hint of the promise unfulfilled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Happy Birthday to Raymond Radiguet...Raymond who?] Reference

Artists of her era grew fascinated, and she served as muse to Ezra Pound, Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and many more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lesley M. M. Blume: ICONS OF STYLE SERIES: The Marchesa Casati, High Priestess of Eccentricity (PHOTOS)] Reference

Celan, Pablo Neruda, Karl Kraus, Jean Cocteau, and Boris Pasternak -- a list that would be hard to rival anywhere else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scaling the Heights] Reference

He decorated many Chapelles in France and the Chapel Notre-Dame-de-Jerusalem also called Chapelle Cocteau was the last.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: June 29, 2003 - July 5, 2003 Archives] Reference

His inspirations include My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream ... you can see where this is leading right?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passing Trains (Music (For Robots))] Reference

Jean Cocteau – Long before Wenders, Kubrick, Cronenberg, Greenaway, or Fellini, there was Cocteau doing silent films in black and white.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weird Tales’ 85 Weirdest « Colleen Anderson] Reference

And I will never get bored with music I used to slow skate to in the '80s -- Cure, Cocteau Twins, The Jam, Buzzcocks, Yaz, Billy Idol, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: February 3, 2002 - February 9, 2002 Archives] Reference