Actors Ben Kingsley, George Clooney, Peter O'Toole, directors Ethan and Joel Coen, and more star power than ever will be on hand for the upcoming 33rd Toronto International Film Festival, organizers announced Tuesday. The festival, which runs from September 4-13, will showcase 249 feature films and 63 shorts from 64 countries this year, including 116 world premieres.
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Agence France-Presse - 8/19/2008 5:51 PM GMT
A nightmarishly dark new production of Antonin Dvorak's fairytale opera "Rusalka" by prize-winning directors Sergio Morabito and Jossi Wieler divided the audience at its first-ever staging Sunday at the Salzburg Festival. Morabito and Wieler were loudly booed by the ultra-conservative audience when they took their bows at the end of the evening, while conductor, Austrian Franz Welser-Moest, and the entire cast received rapturous applause. Agence France-Presse - 8/19/2008 5:52 PM GMT
Europe's online music-driven social networking site MusicMakesFriends.com has struck a deal with Warner Music International enabling users to access the Warner catalogue on the site's streaming platform, the two partners said Tuesday. The site already enables users to stream and share for free music from the catalogues of the world's other three music majors -- Universal Music, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and EMI -- as well as music from 9,000 indie labels. Agence France-Presse - 8/18/2008 8:30 PM GMT
Ben Stiller comedy "Tropic Thunder" dethroned Batman sequel "The Dark Knight" from the top spot at North American box offices this weekend, final figures showed Monday. Stiller's movie-within-a-movie about a group of actors shooting a war film in the middle of a real-life conflict zone scooped 25.8 million dollars on its opening weekend, according to box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations. Agence France-Presse - 8/18/2008 7:17 PM GMT
Oscar-nominated actor Laurence Fishburne is to join the cast of hit US television series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", television network CBS said Monday. Fishburne, 47, whose film credits include "The Matrix", "Mission Impossible III" and "Apocalypse Now", is joining the franchise as star William Peterson prepares to leave the series. Agence France-Presse - 8/18/2008 9:38 AM GMT
Oscar-winning US actress Jodie Foster, a former child star, said Monday that being in her 40s was just as exciting as her teenage years. "People say 40 is the new 18," the 45-year-old actress said in Tokyo, where she is promoting her latest movie, "Nim's Island." AP
The Associated Press - 8/16/2008 4:15 AM GMT
Mary Lou Martell put it off as long as she could. But she finally had to head to Memphis for an anniversary vigil at Elvis Presley's grave. "It's my first Elvis Week. I'm a little ashamed to say that, but it is," Martell, 60, said as she took part in a candlelight procession to Presley's grave at Graceland, his former Memphis residence. "We watched it on the computer last year and I finally said, `I have to be part of that.'" The Associated Press - 8/16/2008 4:14 AM GMT
Mary Lou Martell put it off as long as she could. But she finally had to head to Memphis for an anniversary vigil at Elvis Presley's grave. "It's my first Elvis Week. I'm a little ashamed to say that, but it is," Martell, 60, said as she took part in a candlelight procession to Presley's grave at Graceland, his former Memphis residence. "We watched it on the computer last year and I finally said, `I have to be part of that.'" The Associated Press - 8/14/2008 9:32 AM GMT
Former glam rocker and convicted child molester Gary Glitter will be deported after being released from prison in Vietnam next week, his lawyer said Thursday. Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was convicted of obscene acts with children in March 2006 and sentenced to three years in prison. The incidents involved two Vietnamese girls, 10 and 11, from the southern coastal city of Vung Tau. He will be released Tuesday. The Associated Press - 8/14/2008 7:30 AM GMT
Four years after debuting as the first Asian-American hip-hop artist with a major solo record deal, rapper Jin is making a homecoming of sorts _ releasing a Cantonese-language album in his parents' hometown Hong Kong. A tribute to Hong Kong culture, "ABC" _ short for American-born Chinese _ features songs about dim sum, ramen and Hong Kong's handover from British to Chinese rule. The 26-year-old rapper also pays tribute to his immigrant parents who ran a Chinese takeout restaurant in Miami. The Associated Press - 8/14/2008 7:25 AM GMT
Former glam rocker and convicted child molester Gary Glitter will be deported back to Britain after being released from prison in Vietnam next week, his lawyer said Thursday. Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was convicted of obscene acts with children in March 2006 and sentenced to three years in prison. The incidents involved two Vietnamese girls, aged 10 and 11, from the southern coastal city of Vung Tau. He will be released Tuesday. Other Entertainment Stories
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy flew into Kabul Wednesday and met survivors of an ambush that killed 10 French troops in the deadliest attack on international forces in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Sarkozy touched down at Kabul airport with his Defence Minister Herve Morin and Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and immediately took a helicopter to Camp Warehouse, the base for French troops on the outskirts of the city.
Agence France-Presse - 8/20/2008 5:47 AM GMT
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Actors Ben Kingsley, George Clooney, Peter O'Toole, directors Ethan and Joel Coen, and more star power than ever will be on hand for the upcoming 33rd Toronto International Film Festival, organizers announced Tuesday. The festival, which runs from September 4-13, will showcase 249 feature films and 63 shorts from 64 countries this year, including 116 world premieres.
Agence France-Presse - 8/19/2008 8:21 PM GMT
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To bust a robbery syndicate operating at the Metro Walk Strip mall in Pasig City, elements of the Eastern Police District placed a laptop as bait and waited for their quarry to make their move. After three hours of long wait, elements of the EPD's Special Operations Group arrested Richard Mangunay, 20, and Jeffrey Martinez, 23, both of De la Cruz street, Barangay 130 in Pasay City, moments after they grabbed the bait - a gray ECS Elite Group Laptop worth P30,000.
The Philippine Star - 7/23/2008 12:03 AM GMT
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy flew into Kabul Wednesday and met survivors of an ambush that killed 10 French troops in the deadliest attack on international forces in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Sarkozy touched down at Kabul airport with his Defence Minister Herve Morin and Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and immediately took a helicopter to Camp Warehouse, the base for French troops on the outskirts of the city.
Agence France-Presse - 8/20/2008 5:48 AM GMT
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Tech-savvy South Korea now has 45 million mobile phones, equivalent to 91 percent of the total population, the Korea Communications Commission said Wednesday. The data means each of the country's 15.8 million households has almost three mobiles on average, it said.
Agence France-Presse - 8/20/2008 4:06 AM GMT
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