- Gwyneth Paltrow rents memories
Wayne RooneyGwyneth Paltrow is renting her childhood home from its new owner. The Oscar-winning actress was devastated when her mother, Blythe Danner, sold the Santa Monica house where she had lived until she was 11 for over $8.6 million...
- Viagra nation
Jim BorowskiIt was launched nine years ago as a love potion for impotent men. But Viagra is causing pain as well as pleasure...
- Ex-cop admits to killing dog
Hun LeeLODI - A former Stockton Police Department canine handler agreed Wednesday to contribute $1,000 to a local animal shelter after pleading no contest to killing his Acampo neighbor's golden retriever with a BB gun...
- Willamette Week Online | Screen Listings for the week of Wednesday June 27th thru Tuesday July 3rd
Miriam Liddle[ONE WEEK ONLY] The Cartoon Network-sponsored convention that's bringing together more than 300 animators and computer whizzes from such studios as Disney, Pixar, Nickelodeon and Aardman continues through the weekend...
- Vid-Biz: Adobe, YouTube, Nokia NewTeeVee
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- Engineers descend on monster radio dish - Space News - MSNBC.com
Sam BoyleARECIBO, Puerto Rico - Engineers will travel to this Puerto Rican coastal town in coming weeks to study whether to shut down the world’s largest radio telescope, which was featured in the movie “Contact” but now faces steep budget cuts, observatory offic...
- Books of the Year 2006 symposium Feature ReadySteadyBook - a literary site
Franky MicklestoneIt's Books of the Year time again! I've asked a number of friends and contributors to ReadySteadyBook to tell me which books impressed and moved them most this year, regardless of whether the books concerned were published this year or not...
Dispatches from Zembla: August 2005 Jim Borowski
Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Eclisse (The Eclipse) is the last part of his informal trilogy of eros, estrangement and alienation, that he made in the early sixties, that golden era of European art cinema...
05/01/2006 - 06/01/2006 Steven Bridge
I first saw René Clément’s 1960 film, Plein soleil (‘full sun’), at the Paris Theatre in Manhattan during a 1996 reissue prompted by Martin Scorsese, who finagled a limited release through Miramax...
Avalon Theatre: Thu. Nov. 1 at p.m. Justin Henine-Hardenne
Avalon Theatre: Thu. Nov. 1 at 6:15 p.m. Still think of Amélie ’s Audrey Tautou as a sweet, reclusive little do-gooder? Check her out as glam gold digger in Priceless....
Movie Review: Serendipity Travis Roy
After stumbling upon one another while Christmas shopping for black cashmere gloves at Bloomingdale's, Jonathan (John Cusack) and Sara (Kate Beckinsale) exchange interested glares and words...
Ready, set-jet, go! Travis Roy
When I lived in Oxford a decade or three ago, it would have amazed me to imagine that my modest street in the working-class neighbourhood of Jericho would one day witness scores of escorted tour parties earnestly retracing the murder investigations of In...
Forsyth packed with 10,000 picnickers Franky Micklestone
. Picnic in the Park came back with a basket-toting, bottle-popping vengeance Sunday evening. An organizer estimated 10,000 people attended the Forsyth Park event, which did not take place last year....
First sight: Alysson Paradis | | Guardian Unlimited Arts Sam Boyle
So, she's now ready to take on glamorous roles? Rather than just trade on her considerable good looks, she's getting great notices after being made to appear "super ugly" and drenched in blood as the pregnant victim of a scissor-wielding, psychotic B atr...
What Scares The French? Well, Evidently, The New Film A L’INTERIEUR, According To Our Spy! Howard Hughes
Hey, everyone. here. The new wave of horror has to happen somewhere soon. Asian horror is dead. American horror is in trouble. Imitations and remakes with occasional spikes of originality...
Ron Carter Justin Henine-Hardenne
Upcoming events for Ron Carter: Ron Carter is among the most original, prolific, and influential bassists in jazz...
the great Cover-up Howard Hughes
Fashion is telling us to hark back to a simpler time, when a pair of oversized sunglasses, a shapely swimsuit and a heady self-possession could make illusion the reality...
John Lennon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Steven Bridge
Lennon said that he'd always been very macho and had never questioned his chauvinistic attitudes towards women until he met Ono. Lennon was always distant with his first son (Julian) but was very close to his second son (Sean), and called him "my pride"...
New York Film Festival Comes To A Close Franky Micklestone
The program closed with an animated movie, an adaptation of Marjane Satrapi's graphic novels about growing up in Iran called Persepolis . Using the voices of French actresses Catherine Deneuve as Marjane's mom and Deneuve's daughter with Marcello Mastr...
Courrier international, eurotopics : the european press in 3 languages Sammy King
The actor Alain Delon is selling part of his painting collection in an auction in Paris this Monday, October 15th....
French Pop Revue 'Rendezvous' at Feinstein's Oct.2-6 Peja Stojakovic
8:30 PM. All shows have a $40 cover and a $40 minimum. Jackets are suggested but not required. Feinstein's at Lowes Regency is located at 540 Park Avenue at 61st Street in New York City....
La Vie En Rose Fanny More
On stage she was a singing legend. But for Edith Piaf, life was the greatest performance of all. From Director Olivier Dahan comes the long awaited biopic of the legendary French chanteuse Edith Piaf...
Math Professor Dies After July Fall Sammy King
Krzysztof “Kris” Galicki, professor, Mathematics and Statistics, died today, Monday, Sept. 24, announced Alejandro Aceves, chair of the department....
Beth Quinn: The very curious case of the glove in the nighttime Travis Roy
Last Saturday morning, I woke to find that I had a glove on my left hand. It was a brown Isotoner, the stretchy kind that takes a bit of wiggling your fingers around to get them into the right slots....
Fiddle While You Burn trade;: Tues. 04.24: Charlotte Gainsbourg CD Release Party - "Never Sold Out" Amber Swift
7p FREE! (+ Kronenberg 1664 Beer 7-9p) @ - Charlotte Gainsbourg 5:55 Record Release Party music by DJ Melody Nelson of Calling All Kids, KEVR's La Decadanse and copies of 5:55 given away throughout the night...
Review: Tale of Italian immigrants takes the slow boat Amber Swift
* RATING: PG-13 for brief graphic nudity. * RUNNING TIME: 118 minutes; in English and Italian with subtitles. * BOTTOM LINE: A beautiful but static depiction of an Italian family's experience coming to America...
France's Leading Man Takes New York Franky Micklestone
The French actor isn't prone to naked displays of anything. The 57-year-old is no sex symbol, even if he did have an 11-year romance with the walking goddess , his co-star in Claude Berri's "Manon of the Spring," the film that put him on the map in 1986...
2006-12-03 Ronaldinho
The trouble with blogging is that, at some point, you discover that you have become a blogger...
Ask Bostonist Amber Swift
Married four times, detested by Aleister Crowley but friends with Howard Hughes, Preston Sturges should not be begrudged his mastery of the screwball comedy....
United Press International - NewsTrack - Entertainment - 'Midnight' seen as Witherspoon vehicle Ronaldinho
LOS ANGELES, May 31 (UPI) -- U.S. screenwriter Michael Arndt is working on a rewrite of the 1939 comedy "Midnight" with Reese Witherspoon in mind for a starring role...
'Valet' works too hard Franky Micklestone
France's No. 1 farceur returns to the screen with The Valet , a movie that doesn't quite rise to the level of hilarity found in director Francis Veber's earlier work, movies such as The Dinner Game and The Closet...
"The Valet." Franky Micklestone
Blades of Glor... Bridge to Tera... Clash by Night... Hurricane on t... In the Company... In the Land of... Lives of Other... Meet the Robin... Meet the Robin... Music and Lyri... Mysteries of E... Night at the M... Night at the M.....
'DH Lawrence's view of sex is still in the extreme minority' Wayne Rooney
THE years have not been kind to Lady Chatterley. Nor for that matter have the movies...
The Witnesses | | Guardian Unlimited Arts Amber Swift
Things continue from there, in an era that here looks almost indistinguishable from our own - only the absence of cellphones and a single TV clip of Fran ois Mitterrand announce the period....
"La Vie en Rose" Wayne Rooney
"La Vie en Rose" is the name of her signature song and of director Olivier Dahan's terrific film biography at hand. Marion Cotillard is the name of the terrific actress who brings the charismatic chanteuse to life...
No regrets Ronaldinho
Cotillard, who appeared opposite Russell Crowe in , plays various stages of The Little Sparrow's life - as a 19-year-old being discovered singing on street corners, as a mercurial star at the height of her powers, and as a frail, demanding shell of herse...
Posts tagged JudiDench at Cinematical Sammy King
Events would kick off with a Sunday evening cocktail party and screening, followed by a day of round-robin interviews at a swank Park Avenue hotel, with catered breakfast and lunch...
Dior celebrates 60 years Will Smith
British designer John Galliano marked his 10th year at the creative helm of iconic fashion house Dior with an extravagant fall/winter show in Versailles Palace inspired by Impressionist and Modern painters...
MLive.com: The New Black Wayne Rooney
We're over that whole embarrassing "We hate the French, pass the Freedom Fries" phase, correct? Splendid. Moving on. There's something about Francoise Hardy. A certain, je ne sais quoi, if you will...
The Singer | | Guardian Unlimited Arts Peja Stojakovic
But Depardieu is great as Alain, the ageing singer who has a strong local following, and plays in clubs and dance-halls to the over-40s single/divorcee crowd who need his sentimental tunes, even more than booze, to help break the ice....
Rome: Depardieu shuns summons for headbutt Jim Borowski
FRENCH actor Gerard Depardieu shunned a summons to appear before an Italian court today for allegedly headbutting a local photographer in 2005, and the ruling is now set for next year...
Murphy Embarks for 'Fantasy Island' Sam Boyle
Eddie Murphy is reuniting with "Norbit" perpetrators Jay Scherick and David Ronn on Columbia Pictures' big screen take on "Fantasy Island." "Fantasy Island" aired on ABC from 1978-1984 and featured Taco Bell pitchman Ricardo Montalban as Mr...
DVD Review: Au Revoir Les Enfants Peja Stojakovic
In 1987, Louis Malle, after a run of American produced films that worked (My Dinner With Andre, Atlantic City) and failed (Pretty Baby, Crackers) , decided to return to his roots and write and produce a small budget French film, Au Revoir Les Enfants (Go...
Isabelle Adjani Biography, Discography, Filmography, Trailers, Franky Micklestone
Born June 27, 1955 - Bearing a distinctive dark-haired, porcelain-skin beauty that lent itself to the tragic heroines she frequently played, Isabelle Adjani became one of France's biggest and most acclaimed stars in the '80s, winning four C...
Paris is sprung, but her hair is extended John Hitch
Ex-prisoner Paris Hilton was released from jail in Los Angeles on Tuesday morning, and the world is once again spinning on its axis...
details). The Golden Age of Couture runs until January 6 (020-7942 2000; ). Andy Jones
Have your say Yes, they are superchic, especially the Vivier ballerina flats. I don t know what the price is, I assume they are quite expensive....
The Conjecturer 2004 October Penny Ditch
Filed under: Sam Wilkinson at 6:01 pm on Sunday, October 31, 2004 was absolutely brilliant beyond words. Dyke Lilly Tomlin (kinda like Dame Judy Dench; it s a title that shows respect) was absolutely brilliant...
The Valet - Film Review Justin Henine-Hardenne
After a lifetime of carefully calibrating small-idea comedies, French director Francis Veber hits his biggest movie to date...
A naughty angel saves the day Andy Jones
"Angel-A" is also an unabashed valentine to Paris, which is depicted as a timeless, romantic delight -- and, best of all, uncrowded by unattractive tourists as well as a native populace that can barely tolerate them...
Days of Glory (Indig nes) (2006): Jamel Debbouze, Sami Bouajila, Samy Naceri - PopMatters Film Review Amber Swift
) are North Africans who fought in the French Army to drive the Germans out of a motherland most had never seen...
Epitafios Sammy King
Zap2it.com and check out TV Gal’s home page; the Gal’s Dec. 26 column on the best TV quotes of 2005 is a laugh-out-loud collection of gems. It turns out Epitafios is not available on HBO's On Demand service right now...
DVD Review: Flushed Away Travis Roy
Happy ending guaranteed in this animated film about a pampered house mouse who falls in the sewage underworld when flushed down the toilet. An interesting lot of characters help him home...
Tell No One movie review - Film - Time Out London Hotty Miss
French actor-turned-director Guillaume Canet had a big hit in France with this widescreen, big-budget adaptation of US writer Harlan Coben’s best-selling thriller...
French mime Marcel Marceau dies Sam Boyle
By Francois Murphy PARIS (Reuters) - The world's best-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau, has died aged 84, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon's office said on Sunday....
This site Business directory Andy Jones
That's where it ended; that's where it always ended. I woke up fully then with my heart beating wildly....
Cane or no cane, actor kicks Trintignant performs in stage reading at Place des Arts PAT DONNELLY, Peja Stojakovic
Email to a friend Printer friendly Font: * * * * This time, he is supported by a cast of three (Jean-Louis BГ©rard, HГ©lГЁne FiliГЁre and Manuel Durand) and a walking cane....
A Fine Line Between Loyalty and Betrayal Andy Jones
"There's honor among thieves, they say." So says Police Inspector Clain (Jean Desailly) to the impossibly glamorous antihero Silien (Jean-Paul Belmondo) in Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Doulos." This classic of 1962, which begins a two-week revival at Film...
Princess Grace s legacy: Public lives and private grief Sam Boyle
Long before the current crop of celebrity bad actors with their jail stints and rehab visits, there were the Grimaldi kids, the wild children of the Riviera, who kept a generation of paparazzi and gossip columnists busy with their outrageous behavior...
2006-12-31 Wayne Rooney
A nightmare vision from the Spanish-made Boris Karloff film, CAULDRON OF BLOOD...
'Act of McCarthyism' Ronaldinho
(VIDEO) French actress Juliette Binoche is in Israel to film Amos Gitai s new movie, in which she portrays a woman who embarks on a journey to find her estranged daughter who was raised on a kibbutz In his letter, Shklar clarified that, according to proc...
Lone Sailors: The Current Cinema: The New Yorker Amber Swift
A man and a woman go for a walk in Turin. They have just made love in the afternoon, or, at any rate, spent time in a hotel room, talking about how difficult it is to find time to make love, or to talk....
Restuarant review: Angelus, London | Food and drink | Life and Health Will Smith
It's just that almost all sommeliers are - and I've thought long and hard about this - complete tossers who couldn't communicate their enthusiasm in an accessible manner if retaining their testicles depended upon it....
PopMatters | Columns | Rapha e l Costambeys-Kempczynski | Channel Crossings | YSL? Why not? Penny Ditch
But I have a problem with this type of critical commentary, a problem which I fully understand is linked to the penchant I have for designer clothes...
Bathory Gains Immortality - HorrorMovies.ca Peja Stojakovic
Elizabeth Bathory story is one of legend and to this point hasn't been covered very much. We did get a glimpse of her in Eli Roth's Hostel: Part II bathing in the blood of unforunate back packers...
european-films.net - interview: A Quick Chat with Julie Delpy about '2 Days in Paris' Peja Stojakovic
, Delpy explains, saying she was surprised each time I returned home from the States by how rough, rude, disrespectful and funny the Gauls -- and I mean that in the old-fashioned sense -- were...
Celebrity Wallpapers, Biographies Information Laetitia Casta Ronaldinho
At 5 8 with her long dark blonde hair framing her alluring face and bright blue eyes, Laetitia Casta is voluptuous, youthful and sensual. She is the essence of the GUESS image in it s advertising...
Poll: Kate Moss and Scarlett Johansson Duke it Out. You Decide. Travis Roy
Subscribe to this blog's feed Poll: Kate Moss and Scarlett Johansson Duke it Out. Thu Jul 05, 2007 at 02:30:03 PM Cat is just in a picture mood today...
"The toughest? 'Dance You Monster,'" said drummer John Witt, 16, a junior. "It's a hard feel to play." Franky Micklestone
Tabbed No. 1 in country by Down Beat magazine Folsom High's jazz band horn section sax players belt out a tune at a practice last week in the music building on campus....
Jazz | JazzTimes Magazine > Columns and Features > News Andy Jones
Schneider, who won a Grammy in 2004 for her acclaimed Concert in the Garden , will appear nightly at 7:30 p.m....
Director drawn to French singer's story PopMatters | News and Commentary | PopWire Miriam Liddle
There was just something about her - an attitude, Dahan recalls. My first impulse was that I had to make a movie about her. That film, La Vie en Rose , starring Marion Cotillard, is now in theaters...
Filmmaker Magazine | Spring 2007: I AM A BIRD NOW Hun Lee
In person, French actress and star Marion Cotillard is tall, confident and with a quicksilver responsiveness that skips from laughter and exuberance to moments of intense thought and introspection...
solace in cinema : A vast wasteland of movies Steven Bridge
I ve mentioned Babylon A.D before, and the fact that I was worried about the quality of it. Mathieu Kassovitz is 50/50 as a director in anyone s book...
Ageing population brings grave problems - Times Online Steven Bridge
There were two summits taking place in Europe at the end of last week. In Brussels, European Union leaders occupied themselves with yet another bout of their interminable haggling over political architecture...
I Love Lucy - The Complete Seasons 7-9 - PopMatters Television Review Justin Henine-Hardenne
, one of the contemporaries, Ball and Arnez did amazing things with limited stage space...
Rogue: Killer croc movie 'a tourism ad' Peja Stojakovic
A MOVIE about a man-eating crocodile preying on tourists in the Northern Territory is like a $30 million advertisement for the Top End, says the film's director Greg Mclean...
From Wolf Creek to a snappier version of Jaws Franky Micklestone
THE seven-metre crocodile in the new homegrown film Rogue kills tourists and locals, and comes close to making a meal of an American travel writer, but don't expect that to deter visitors to the Top End...
Belle Toujours (2007) movie database page at Real Movie News for daily movie news updates! Sam Boyle
"Belle Toujours," an homage to the Lu i s Bu uel and Jean-Claude Carri re 1967 classic "Belle de Jour." Picking up thirty-eight years from where Bu uel's erotic masterpiece left off, Michel Piccoli returns in Oliveira's "Belle T...
Remakes sour movie memories Amber Swift
Which begs the question: Why would Dimension Films give Rob Zombie ВЈ8.5 million to waste on a remake? What is the point of taking a film regarded as a seminal classic and, as it's now called, re-imaging it? A phrase that gives copy-cat directors an in...
Young hunter, 11, bags a monster porker Amber Swift
Confronted with a pig the size of a pick-up truck, most youngsters would turn tail and flee. But 11-year-old Jamison Stone is too keen on his sausages for that...
Kylie spotted with a married man Peja Stojakovic
Australian singer was spotted in Chile with a married man. was met at Santiago airport by film director Alexander Dahm, who lives in Mexico with his heavily pregnant wife and young son. Today, the week-day version of the paper, the Daily ....
Jacques Rivette, le veilleur (Hoover) Sam Boyle
of Pascale Ogier circling a lion statue in a scooter; this turns into a shot of Jean-François Stévenin driving up on his own BMW motorcycle and beginning an interview...
european-films.net - review: Une vieille ma Justin Henine-Hardenne
French director and provocatrice extraordinaire Catherine Breillat is finally tamed by a partially stilted adaptation of an early 19th century literary classic in Une vieille ma tresse (An Old Mistress)...
Welcome To Twitch. Spreading the News On Strange Little Films From Around the World. John Hitch
Eight more stills from ' Spanish-Argentine-Swedish horror movie The Appeared ( Aparecidos ) have been added to the page for the movie on GOMORRAHY.com. As was previously reported and on Twitch, the screenplay for The Appeared was written by Cabezas...
Chelsea Hotel: New York storeys Lewis O'neal
EDIE Sedgwick set fire to it, Sid Vicious's girlfriend Nancy was killed there, and Dylan, Kubrick and Joplin all made it their home. For years the Chelsea in New York has been a hotbed of controversy, a bohemian mecca for the famous and the arty...
Le Doulos Howard Hughes
would "do anything for a friend -- on either side of the law," his friend Jean (Philippe March) tells us...
United Press International - NewsTrack - Entertainment - Macabre movie master Harrington dies Hun Lee
HOLLYWOOD HILLS, Calif., May. 10 (UPI) -- Curtis Harrington, an experimental filmmaker who earned a reputation as a master of the morbid, died in his Hollywood Hills, Calif., home. He was 80...
chinadaily_sub Dwayne Jenkings
Brad Pitt looks so different on red carpet at Cannes! Cars clash! Girls strut! Tarantino's at Cannes Stars lighten somber mood at Cannes film festival Jolie, Pitt get emotional unveiling Daniel Pearl film DiCaprio to polluters: go green now Campion lamen...
Pomona man suspected in hour-long police chase Ram Stone
Two men, one from Pomona, led El Monte police on a car chase for more than an hour Friday, traversing several San Gabriel Valley cities before surrendering in La Puente...
Review: 'Little sparrow' Piaf sings defiantly in 'Vie en Rose' Sam Boyle
* RATING: PG-13 for substance abuse, sexual content, brief nudity, language and thematic elements. * RUNNING TIME: 140 minutes; in French with subtitles. * BOTTOM LINE: The life of French superstar Edith Piaf receives a rich treatment in this biography...
Depp 'to make Pirates IV' Penny Ditch
Jack the lad ... Sparrow, right, pulls the ladies CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow has taken JOHNNY DEPP to the World s End but he has revealed that is not far enough. The third Pirates Of The Caribbean movie was expected to be the last...
Johnny Depp Wedding Talk Travis Roy
Are Johnny Depp and long-time girlfriend (and mother of his kids), Vanessa Paradis, planning to tie the knot? So says the U.K.'s Daily Mail . Since Johnny's daughter, Lily Rose, was in March for E. Coli poisoning, the couple have been tighter than ever...
european-films.net - review: Hope (Nadzieja) (KVIFF 2007) Dwayne Jenkings
The three films represent not only the Dantesque concepts of heaven, hell and purgatory but also the Christian ideals of love, faith and hope...
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