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| Almodovar revenge thriller a hit at Cannes Posted: 20 May 2011 08:21 AM PDT  Spanish actress Marisa Paredes, Spanish director Pedro Almodovar and Spanish actor Antonio Banderas (R) pose during the photocall of 'La Piel Que Habito' (The Skin I Live In) presented in competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2011 in Cannes. – AFP pic Almodovar's picture, one of 20 contenders for the festival's coveted Palme d'Or to be awarded Sunday by jury president Robert De Niro, garnered a long round of applause at a press preview. It reunites Almodovar and Banderas for the first time since 1990's "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!", a pitch-black comedy which launched their international careers. Now a Hollywood star, the 50-year-old Banderas said he had longed to return to Spanish film-making, if only temporarily. "Coming back to Pedro Almodovar is a form of recognition, of gratitude because he occupies a special place in my life. He gave me my artistic education," he told reporters. "Almodovar was the beginning of my film career and coming back is a kind of homecoming – coming back to my own roots, my own country, with all its strong points and weak points and contradictions." The film features Banderas as a kind of mad scientist living in Toledo with an older woman, apparently his housekeeper, and a younger woman kept captive in his villa and monitored round the clock on camera. She wears a skin-coloured suit and it gradually emerges that she is a Frankenstein-like creation by the doctor, who has used genetic engineering to recreate a mirror image of his dead wife. But to build a new spouse, he required a human specimen to transform so he kidnapped a man he believes raped his teenage daughter years before at a wedding, driving her to suicide. Almodovar, 61, bringing his fourth feature to Cannes, said he was ready for a new genre after melodramas such as "Broken Embraces" starring his frequent muse Penelope Cruz. "I'm currently in a thriller time of my life," he said. "But in a thriller you can touch on all kinds of other genres. I don't think you have stick rigidly to the rules of a genre. But thrillers are indeed my favourite kind of film right now and I'll probably make more." – AFP Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
| Singer Pete Doherty jailed on cocaine charge Posted: 20 May 2011 06:42 AM PDT
The 32-year-old was arrested in January last year by police investigating the suspected overdose death of heiress Robyn Whitehead. The controversial Babyshambles singer (picture) has been jailed twice before and has repeatedly admitted possession of banned substances. Judge David Radford said he had an "appalling record" of committing offences, having made 13 other court appearances in the past. Peter Wolfe, 42, who had pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of cocaine and one count of supplying cocaine to Whitehead, was sentenced to a total of 12 months in prison. Whitehead, 27, the granddaughter of the late Teddy Goldsmith, founder of The Ecologist magazine, spent the last 10 days of her life making a documentary about Doherty. Prosecutor Alison Morgan said paramedics were called to Wolfe's flat in Hackney, east London, where Whitehead collapsed on January 24 last year. They tried to resuscitate Whitehead but she was pronounced dead shortly afterwards. Toxicology reports found she had a combination of cocaine and heroin in her body and had died of heroin poisoning. Footage filmed inside the flat two days earlier showed her in the flat with Wolfe and him passing her a crack pipe, which she then smoked. The prosecutor told Snaresbrook Crown Court that Doherty later joined them and was also filmed smoking on the crack pipe and putting crack cocaine inside it. She said the drugs offences to which the two men had been charged had been committed between January 22 and 24 but that the crack cocaine that Wolfe had supplied Whitehead with could not have been what killed her. Judge Radford said she had died from the poisoning of another illegal drug which she had chosen to take. – Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by USA Best Price. |
LONDON, May 20 – Musician Pete Doherty was jailed for six months today after pleading guilty to possession of cocaine, the Press Association reported.| You are subscribed to email updates from The Malaysian Insider :: Showbiz To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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