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Whatever happened to Xena: Warrior Princess star Lucy Lawless…
IT has been more than 20 years since Lucy Lawless made an eye-popping arrival onto screens as the title character in Xena: Warrior Princess. The actress became an instant hit with audiences who saw her tough alter ego go on a quest to redeem herself for her dark past alongside buddy Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor). It has been a...
What is the fate of the boy from the movie “Toy” ?
In 1976, the screens released film directed by Francis Weber's "Toy" with Per Richard in the lead role. Now Fabrice Greco (the actor's name) is alive and very successful. The role in "toys" was his only appearance in the film. For a long time nothing was known about him, but still some of the...
Cotillard Inspired By Director’s ‘Wildness’ In Mal De Pierres
Academy Award winning actress Marion Cotillard says the inspiration for her portrayal of the heroine, Gabrielle, in “Mal de Pierres” was the wildness and “fire” of director, Nicole Garcia. The film – also billed as “From the Land of the Moon” – premieres at the Cannes Film...
Confessions of a Red Guard, 50 years after China’s Cultural Revolution
I have lived a life haunted by guilt. In 1966, I was one of Chairman Mao Zedong's Red Guards. Myself and millions of other middle and high school students started denouncing our teachers, friends, families and raiding homes and destroying other people's possessions. Textbooks explain the Cultural Revolution — in...
Cannes: How Shia LaBeouf relates to his next role as John McEnroe
Cannes: How Shia LaBeouf relates to his next role as John McEnroeShia LaBeouf as John McEnroe. You cannot be serious. It's the casting that was meant to be. The famously temperamental actor LaBeouf discussed how he relates to the famed, hot-headed tennis player McEnroe at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday. LaBeouf made the...
The most popular stores in America
Walmart is the most popular store in America. More than half of all shoppers in the country visit a Walmart location in a given month. No other U.S. store can claim a majority of Americans as customers. 24/7 Wall St. reviewed foot traffic figures at major U.S. stores provided by data service company Placed Insights. According...
Eurovision Song Contest: Ukraine’s Jamala wins competition
Ukraine's Jamala has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest, held in Stockholm, Sweden. The country scored 534 points with its song 1944, about the deportation of Crimean Tatars under Josef Stalin. Australia finished second with 511 points, while Russia — which was the favourite going into the competition...
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie ‘have adopted baby boy from Cambodia’
The couple already have six children together, three of whom are adopted, but it seems they're already looking for a bigger family Tinseltown's first family could be expanding their brood with their seventh child, reports suggest. Angelina and Brad are said to have adopted a Cambodian baby boy from the slums of Siem...
Is this the world’s greatest city?
Many people think the British capital’s heyday was in the past. But not only is it more exciting now than it’s ever been, it’s the most exciting city in the world, writes Dylan Jones. The publishing world has become overrun by books celebrating particular points in time. A few years ago, Bill Bryson wrote an...
Actress Catherine Klimova Finally Show Couple
One of the most beautiful actresses of the national cinema Ekaterina Klimova finally showed the world his beloved. 38-year-old celebrity published a photo with her husband in her microblog. Daughter of the...
The strange life of a super-traveller
How to survive a 200,000 mile a year career. Alicia Yoon feels at home in two very distinct places. And that’s a good thing, because she often has just two days to tend to her life (and her fiancé) in New York, pay her bills and then dash out to pick up where she left off in Seoul, South Korea. “Sometimes, I...
How Hollywood rewrote a gritty story
As a new production of Breakfast at Tiffany’s comes to the London stage, Holly Williams looks at how the iconic book and film have been reinvented. The little black dress. The pearls; the oversized sunglasses and the absurdly long cigarette holder. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – the 1961 film based on Truman...