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| Uzbek president’s daughter ‘pens serial starring Depardieu’ Posted: 01 Nov 2012 06:08 AM PDT TASHKENT, Nov 1 — The eldest daughter of Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov, already a pop star and fashion designer, is now writing a screenplay for a historical serial that could star French actor Gerard Depardieu as a monk, reports said yesterday.  French actor Gerard Depardieu. — AFP/Relaxnews The reports said that Gulnara Karimova's story would be set in the 5th-6th centuries in Central Asia and Depardieu would appear as a monk from Europe. A source at the Fund Forum for Culture and Arts that Karimova runs told AFP that the initial announcement about the film had been made by the president's daughter in the Art Week Style.uz-2012, which took place early this month. "However, these were was initial plans and writing the screenplay is under development. The involvement of Depardieu to the film is also being negotiated," said the source, who did not wish to be named. Harvard-educated Karimova, 40, has become the public face of the ex-Soviet country, serving as its permanent representative in the United Nations in Geneva and as its ambassador in Spain until last year. She also runs jewellery, cosmetics and clothing lines internationally under her Guli label, while heading a number of charity projects at home. But it is as a pop star under the name of GooGoosha that she has attracted the most attention. However during the press conference earlier this year she said that she does not consider herself a professional singer and her true talents lay in diplomacy. — AFP/Relaxnews |
| Bram Stoker’s restored ‘Dracula’ desk up for auction Posted: 01 Nov 2012 01:51 AM PDT  In this undated publicity photograph released to Reuters October 31, 2012, the desk where Bram Stoker wrote his famed 1897 book "Dracula" is pictured. — Reuters pic The desk, which will be auctioned off by the California company on December 15 and 16, has had a long history, which, over the past century, has left it battered, with missing drawers and legs sawn short. The Irish-born Stoker, who died in 1912, initially gave the desk to his friend J S R Phillips. The current owner commissioned British-based furniture maker and designer Mark Brazier-Jones to preserve the desk, but also make it a stand-alone art piece, the auction house said. Brazier-Jones said in a statement that he wanted to preserve the desk's scars and textures, but also pay homage to the man who introduced the vampire Count Dracula to today's pop culture. His improvements include embroidered imagery "appropriate to the great man's inspirations and imagining," including bats, a savage hound and scrolling rose thorns and buds. Brazier-Jones also lined with leather two secret compartments which will only be revealed to the new owner of the desk. The company expects the desk, along with a matching candelabra designed and crafted by Brazier-Jones, to sell for somewhere between US$60,000 and US$80,000 (RM180,000 and 240,000). — Reuters |
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