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| ‘Grace of Monaco’ serves up controversy on Cannes opening Posted: 14 May 2014 12:23 AM PDT Hollywood superstar Nicole Kidman and French director Olivier Dahan are just some of the big names due to tread the red carpet as their film gets its world premiere at the start of the 12-day film fest in the glamorous Riviera resort. Ryan Gosling, David Cronenberg, Sophia Loren and jury head Jane Campion are also set to make an appearance during the 67th Cannes Film Festival, where directorial big guns will go head-to-head in a year of comebacks, swansongs and star debuts. Dahan's "Grace of Monaco" has been embroiled in not one but two rows as the princely children of the late actress-turned-princess and powerful US distributor Harvey Weinstein blast the director's version of the film. Rather than illustrate her life as whole, the movie focuses on a period of high tensions between the tiny state on a rock and France in 1962 that prompted the princess to turn down an offer by Alfred Hitchcock to return to her beloved acting. Princely frown, transatlantic row Prince Albert II and his sisters Caroline and Stephanie insist that the film, which also features British actor Tim Roth as Prince Rainier, does not accurately portray events involving their mother. The Grimaldis have publicly disavowed a film they say "has been misappropriated for purely commercial purposes". "This film should never have existed," Stephanie of Monaco told local daily Nice Matin. To which Dahan retorted that the princely family had not seen the film and was basing its allegations purely on the trailer. "They want to control their image, defend their family and at the same time it's business," he told the same daily. Jeffrey Robinson, the author of a biography on Grace who met her and read the script, also savaged the film in an interview with Nice Matin. "The authors of the screenplay don't know anything, did not capture her personality, did not meet her at the time. It's shameful and they're not honouring her." As if this was not enough, the Frenchman has been locked in a long-standing tussle with Weinstein, the film's distributor in the United States. Both have been at loggerheads over the final version of the movie – whose release has been delayed several times – with Dahan accusing Weinstein of wanting a new, breezier edit he has described as "catastrophic." Dahan and Kidman will no doubt address the controversy at a media briefing today, before walking up the 24 steps to the festival palace under the eager gaze of curious onlookers and the world's photographers. No limo, but a tank The event is due to kick off at 1915 (1715 GMT) with an opening ceremony hosted by French actor Lambert Wilson, after which 18 films will compete for the coveted Palme d'Or prize during the May 14-25 extravaganza. The festival will see Canadian heartthrob Ryan Gosling showcase his directorial debut "Lost River", and films by 25-year-old whizz kid Xavier Dolan, veteran director Jean-Luc Godard and "Men in Black" actor Tommy Lee Jones will also compete. On the sidelines of the competitions, muscle men Sylvester Stallone, Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger will take a trip to the resort on board a tank to promote their film "The Expendables 3". And to seal off this year's festivities, US Cannes-lover Quentin Tarantino will go back in time and showcase "A Fistful of Dollars" at the closing ceremony, in a glitzy celebration of the 50th anniversary of spaghetti westerns. – AFP, May 14, 2014. |
| Alec Baldwin arrested in New York for riding bike in wrong direction Posted: 14 May 2014 12:01 AM PDT The Emmy-award winning actor was taken into custody by two officers who spotted him riding his bike against traffic in lower Manhattan around 10 am, police said. He was issued two summonses, one for the bicycle violation and another for disorderly conduct. "He was acting in a violent, threatening manner towards the police officers," Sergeant Lee Jones of the New York Police Department told Reuters. Baldwin, who portrayed Jack Donaghy in the hit TV comedy "30 Rock," was taken to the 13th Precinct for processing and was released by late morning, said an NYPD spokeswoman. "New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalise behaviour once thought benign," the star tweeted later in the day through the Alec Baldwin Foundation Twitter account regarding his arrest. He also tweeted the officer's name and badge number and complained that police did nothing when photographers nearly hit his daughter with a camera outside his home. Earlier this year, Baldwin said he was considering leaving the city, due in part to press accounts last year that portrayed him as a hot head and a homophobic bigot. "I probably have to move out of New York," Baldwin said in a New York Magazine article in February. "I just can't live in New York anymore." – Reuters, May 14, 2014. |
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