Hint: This celebrity kid’s dad plays for the New York Knicks. Guess that celebrity kid!
It’s Amar’e Jr, the son of basketball player Amar’e Stoudemire. Check out archived pictures of Amar’e and his family.
Amar’e Jr. is pictured with rapper Lil Wayne.
Bee Gees co-founder Robin Gibb has died after a battle with cancer of the colon and liver. He was 62.
"The family of Robin Gibb, of the Bee Gees, announce with great sadness that Robin passed away today following his long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery," a note on his web site said Sunday. "The family have asked that their privacy is respected at this very difficult time."
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Gibb had intestinal surgery 18 months ago for an unrelated condition, but a tumor was discovered and he was diagnosed with cancer of the colon and of the liver.
In February, Gibb announced he had made a “spectacular” recovery from cancer, but in March he underwent further surgery on his intestines.
He was forced to cancel all engagements, including the world premiere earlier this month of his first classical work, co-written with his son Robin-John, called “The Titanic Requiem.”
The Bee Gees soundtrack to the 1977 film "Saturday Night Fever," helped propel disco music into a worldwide phenomenon.
Among the band's hits were "I've Gotta Get A Message To You," "Lonely Days," "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart," "How Deep Is Your Love" and "Stayin' Alive."
Gibb last performed on stage in February, supporting injured British servicemen and women at a charity concert held at the London Palladium.
Gibb's twin brother and Bee Gees bandmate Maurice died from the same bowel condition that initially led doctors to operate on Robin.
Here's a video of "How Deep is Your Love" from the 1977 soundtrack from the film "Stayin' Alive."
I've got a new conspiracy theory for you:
Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John F. Kennedy. In fact, he was in Dallas to prevent the killing of the president by taking out the actual assassin. That person, who fired the fatal shots form the grassy knoll, had undergone plastic surgery so as to look exactly like Oswald.
And Oswald was driven to save Kennedy by Frank Sinatra's assassination-thwarting role in "The Manchurian Candidate."
Far-fetched? To say the least! Just the sort of high-concept that Hollywood filmmakers will be leaping at, particularly as we come up on the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination in 2013 — just like Stephen King's popular "11/22/63."
For now, however, it's the manuscript of a fascinating novel — delivered anonymously to me — that purports to "get inside the head" of Oswald in the days leading up to both his and Kennedy's death with a fact-based narrative. Now, I don't do conspiracy theories, but I was intrigued by this take on Oswald taken from an entirely new perspective.
The manuscript begins with Oswald's final words: “I’m a patsy, a patsy." That's what Oswald shouted into a TV camera at 11:21 a.m. on a Sunday morning when, as he was being escorted through the basement of the Dallas county jail for transfer to another holding area. It was just before Jack Ruby stepped out of the crowd and assassinated the man who had only a few days earlier assassinated President Kennedy.
At least that's the official word. According to this manuscript, Oswald was indeed in Dallas that day, in the book tower, with his rifle. But he was not there to assassinate President Kennedy — rather to thwart at all costs the assassination itself.
He did not fire at JFK but at the "other" shooter who was on the grassy knoll, that person being the actual JFK assassin. The person on the grassy knoll was a paid killer working for both the Mafia and CIA, the manuscript goes on. He had undergone plastic surgery in order to make him a double for Lee Harvey Oswald.
This explains why Oswald was seen in two places in Dallas at precisely the same time. As you remember, Oswald was arrested originally not for the assassination of the president but the killing of Dallas police officer John D.Tippit.
It was, the manuscript continues, the "other Oswald" who killed Tippit because his accidentally spotting of an "Oswald" far from where the "real" Oswald would have destroyed the Mafia/CIA plan to frame Oswald.
Oswald had, the manuscript says, in his early life thought about killing a president in order to achieve the fame that had eluded him. He had a lifelong love for and fascination with, of all people, Frank Sinatra and it shaped his vision of the world.
As a youth, he saw a 1954 Sinatra movie titled "Suddenly" in which Sinatra played a would-be presidential assassin. The manuscript says Oswald was inspired by that film to emulate the character and might have been Kennedy’s assassin were it not for another Sinatra movie that spun Oswald all around again.
Shortly before the assassination of JFK, which Oswald was at one point to have been actively involved in, Oswald saw "The Manchurian Candidate" in which Sinatra’s character thwarts an assassination. Oswald believed, as many paranoid-schizophrenic people do, that his favorite movie star was using his films and music to “talk directly to me,” according to the manuscript.
I've exchanged emails with the author, who emailed me out of the blue. He's a retired journalism professor who has written about Hollywood and film, but never a novel.
"I’ve known the plastic surgeon who created the double for Oswald for most of my life," he told me. "He’s now long deceased, and even now I cannot or will not speak his actual name in public out of respect for what he revealed to me and me alone over the years."
The author also told me that he seen the actual photographs of the “twinning” — the Mafia-medical term for ''doubling'' — of the Mob assassin into an Oswald clone. The author said that whenever he asked the doctor if he could print the full story, he would say, "Not yet. The truth cannot be told until 50 years after the assassination. Then, on the eve of
the anniversary, you have my permission to print it'.”
"Truth is so impossible to accept," the author says the doctor told him, quoting an ancient philosopher, “that we need fiction to make it palatable.”
I see movie written all over this. I also see conspiracy theory written all over the movie. I also see the media having a field day with this perspective on Oswald, the movie buff and Sinatra fan, when "the secret life of Lee Harvey Oswald" is revealed in November
2013.
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The Glee graduation, and season three finale “Goodbye,” is fast approaching–and there have been plenty of questions surrounding who’s leaving Glee and who will return next season.
Fresh off their Nationals win, Glee‘s New Directions senior members are preparing for graduation in what is sure to be a tear jerker of a season finale.
Glee cast members have been stirring up plenty of rumors about who will stick around on the series for season four, and while there’s been buzz that Dianna Agron and Amber Riley are leaving, that may not be exactly the case.
It’s the end of an era, no doubt, but Chris Colfer, Lea Michele and Cory Monteith are confirmed to return next season.
But it looks like the other grads will be popping up in Glee season four as well, as show creator Ryan Murphy spilled the beans to Vulture.com about who is staying on Glee.
Ryan explains, “We had a meeting, and you know we’ve become like a family, and I said to them, ‘Anybody who wants to stay on the show will stay on the show.’ They’re all coming back. Anyone who is a regular is coming back. Everyone said yes.”
Check out this emotional behind-the-scenes video from the graduation finale, where Dianna Agron says, “It’s been four years together. I wouldn’t trade it for anything. I mean these are some of my best friends. We’ve gone through some of the most incredible things together. We’ve just been on this insane journey… I’ll remember this forever.”
Sniffle.
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Jane Lynch has a message for Republicans and its all about dollars and cents.
On "The Rachel Maddow Show" Wednesday night, the "Glee" star said that the GOP should embrace gay marriage, as President Barack Obama did last week, not just because she believes it's the right thing to do, but because it offers an economic opportunity.
"Now, I, Jane Lynch am not normally one to give career advice to Republicans, but guys and gals, there’s money to be made on promoting gay rights within the Republican party," Lynch said during Maddow's “Best New Thing in the World” segment.
Also read: Obama's Gay Marriage Support a Hit in Hollywood, But Will It Help Fundraising?
How, you might ask? Lynch argued that Republican political strategists can hike their fees to GOP candidates by offering coaching tips on outreach to the gay community.
"Someone is going to have to teach Republicans to talk about gay rights, without seeming like they’ve caved to the Democrats," Lynch said. "Some strategists are going to have to make it their specialty to teach Republicans how to be pro-gay while still sounding angry."
The Republican party and the presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney have publicly opposed legalizing marriage for gay and lesbian couples, but Lynch said that they are on the wrong side of history.
As evidence, the actress cited a memo from one of the party's own — former President George W. Bush's pollster Jan van Lohuizen.
In a message to fellow Republicans obtained by Politico, Lohuizen said the party must change its tune on the issue, because support for gay marriage is intensifying.
"As more people have become aware of friends and family members who are gay, attitudes have begun to shift at an accelerated pace," van Lohuizen wrote. "This is not about a generational shift in attitudes, this is about people changing their thinking as they recognize their friends and family members who are gay or lesbian.”
Lynch did an ace job filling Maddow's wonky and acerbic shoes, but she told the MSNBC host that even that she's sticking with her day job.
"I would love to play [a cable news host]," Lynch said. "I don't know that I would want to do it day in and day out. I know how much you work and how you have to have your finger on the pulse."
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Philip Seymour Hoffman will star in a film adaption of John Le Carre's "A Most Wanted Man."
The Oscar winner and Tony nominee will play the leader of a covert Germany spy group looking into the case of Issa, a tortured part-Chechen, part-Russian with a claim to his family's fortune. While a series of people, including a banker and a female lawyer, try to help Issa, assorted intelligence agencies begin to dig into his true identity.
Hoffman is currently performing on Broadway in "Death of a Salesman." He has received a 2012 Tony nomination for his portrayal of Willy Loman.
Film4 is co-financing and co-developing "A Most Wanted Man," which Anton Corbijn is directing. Corbijn is a prolific Dutch music video director who last directed "The American," starring George Clooney.
Hoffman's next two projects, Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" and Yaron Zilberman's "A Late Quartet," have both wrapped, and "Death of a Salesman" is slated to run through June 2.
"A Most Wanted Man" is slated to start production this fall.
Hollywood has often turned to Le Carre's oeuvre for inspiration, most recently with "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," which earned three Oscar nominations.
Undoubtedly there will be tons of photographers and screaming fans outside as Ben Stiller, Jessica Chastain, Chris Rock, Martin Short, Jada Pinkett-Smith and David Schwimmer ascend the steps at the Palais des Festivals for the world premiere of their latest film. And it will be the best look at them that the crowd will have all night, particularly since they won’t be onscreen — the movie is Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted.
The latest DreamWorks Animation effort may seem like a surprising fit for Cannes, usually perceived as the stomping grounds of the world’s great auteurs, but the festival has long embraced mass Hollywood releases on the cusp of their blockbuster rollouts. In 2005 Cannes hosted Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and even piped over a massive sound system Darth Vader breathing along the Croisette in the hours leading up to the movie’s zany red carpet premiere. And from Shrek to Kung Fu Panda 2, DWA has wrangled frequent Cannes premieres complete with screaming fans and all the festival trimmings.
“This is my first time here in Cannes. To have my voice in Cannes is a good first step to actually being in a movie here,” Ben Stiller, who voices the lion character Alex, said to laughs Friday. Co-director Tom McGrath voiced a bit of trepidation about the likes of Madagascar (which is screening out of competition) with the likes of others in the Official Selection including the latest from David Cronenberg (Cosmopolis), Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone), Abbas Kiarostami (Like Someone in Love) and Walter Salles (On the Road).
“We went to opening night and saw our cartoon [in a montage of Cannes films] and we thought, ‘Do we deserve to be here?’” McGrath said. “But the great thing about Cannes is…
Reality TV is getting the Cannes treatment at the world’s premiere film festival. Italian director Matteo Garrone (pictured above right with actor Nando Paone) brought Reality to the fest’s competition, following up his critically acclaimed gangster pic Gomorrah several years ago. The film centers on a village fisherman who sacrifices everything for the perceived chance to become a reality-television celebrity.
After being persuaded to apply for the Italian version of Big Brother, Luciano gets a follow up interview in Rome. He is initially reluctant to pursue the role, but after an interview he thinks went well, Luciano begins to believe he’s in the running for the series. After returning to Naples, he begins to believe he’s still “being cast” as he goes about his daily life. Soon, he lives as if he’s already on the show. A chance meeting with people from Rome turns into an “incognito casting session,” and soon it gets worse as he loses sense of actual reality.
“After Gomorrah, I was waiting for a theme that would be as powerful,” Garrone said in Cannes on Friday morning. “I wanted a surprising film, but after Gomorrah, I didn’t realize I’d be hitting a brick wall.”
The film is chock full of thematic takeaways, including the religious metaphor that through good works, one can achieve paradise: In the film, Luciano begins to give up his worldly possessions, believing the people secretly watching him will be charmed by his selflessness — much to the horror of his family. Reality could also be an indictment of the meteoric rise of reality television itself over the past decade, though Garrone said the film takes a neutral stance — at least officially.
“We shot the film without trying to be critical in any way,” he said. “The main character…
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The Glee graduation, and season three finale “Goodbye,” is fast approaching–and there have been plenty of questions surrounding who’s leaving Glee and who will return next season.
Fresh off their Nationals win, Glee‘s New Directions senior members are preparing for graduation in what is sure to be a tear jerker of a season finale.
Glee cast members have been stirring up plenty of rumors about who will stick around on the series for season four, and while there’s been buzz that Dianna Agron and Amber Riley are leaving, that may not be exactly the case.
It’s the end of an era, no doubt, but Chris Colfer, Lea Michele and Cory Monteith are confirmed to return next season.
But it looks like the other grads will be popping up in Glee season four as well, as show creator Ryan Murphy spilled the beans to Vulture.com about who is staying on Glee.
Ryan explains, “We had a meeting, and you know we’ve become like a family, and I said to them, ‘Anybody who wants to stay on the show will stay on the show.’ They’re all coming back. Anyone who is a regular is coming back. Everyone said yes.”
Check out this emotional behind-the-scenes video from the graduation finale, where Dianna Agron says, “It’s been four years together. I wouldn’t trade it for anything. I mean these are some of my best friends. We’ve gone through some of the most incredible things together. We’ve just been on this insane journey… I’ll remember this forever.”
Sniffle.
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Ask Brooklyn Decker what landed her a Battleship role and she will tell you it wasn’t all about her killer good looks or awesome talent…
Nope, the blond bombshell had to have a little bit more than that for this one.
Brooklyn and Battleship director Peter Berg recently talked to us about how she snagged the role of Sam in the upcoming film.
Convinced she wasn’t strong enough, during auditions, Berg told her that there was only one way she could get the tough-girl gig…
“The only way to get the role and prove I was strong enough was if I had tears coming out of my eyes and snot bubbles coming out of my nose.”
Uhh, gross!
Brooklyn totally did what she had to do and produced tears and snot bubbles like it was her j-o-b and landed the role!
The snot bubble audition wasn’t the only Battleship silliness going on, Rihanna admitted to us that there were tons of on-set pranks too.
Don’t forget to check out Battleship…it hits theaters on Friday!
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Mick Jagger taught "Saturday Night Live" star Kristen Wiig everything she knows about music, meaning lots of scoop on drugs and various sexual acts. That's what Wiig tells the Rolling Stones singer in promos for Saturday's 37th season finale of "SNL."
"Mick, I am so excited you're hosting," Wiig says in the promo. "I grew up on you, you taught me so much about music. Seriously, you taught me so much about using drugs … like, so many drugs. The different types of drugs …"
Also read: Keith Richards Regrets Savaging Mick Jagger in His Memoir
"I don't think we need to go there," Jagger interrupts, before Wiig continues on and lists the many bleeped-out sexual acts she learned about thanks to Jagger.
Foo Fighters, Arcade Fire and Jeff Beck join Jagger as the musical guests for the season finale, which marks the first time Jagger has hosted the show since 1978, when he and the Stones were the host and musical guest for the fourth season premiere.
Watch the "SNL" promo:
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Jane Lynch has a message for Republicans and its all about dollars and cents.
On "The Rachel Maddow Show" Wednesday night, the "Glee" star said that the GOP should embrace gay marriage, as President Barack Obama did last week, not just because she believes it's the right thing to do, but because it offers an economic opportunity.
"Now, I, Jane Lynch am not normally one to give career advice to Republicans, but guys and gals, there’s money to be made on promoting gay rights within the Republican party," Lynch said during Maddow's “Best New Thing in the World” segment.
Also read: Obama's Gay Marriage Support a Hit in Hollywood, But Will It Help Fundraising?
How, you might ask? Lynch argued that Republican political strategists can hike their fees to GOP candidates by offering coaching tips on outreach to the gay community.
"Someone is going to have to teach Republicans to talk about gay rights, without seeming like they’ve caved to the Democrats," Lynch said. "Some strategists are going to have to make it their specialty to teach Republicans how to be pro-gay while still sounding angry."
The Republican party and the presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney have publicly opposed legalizing marriage for gay and lesbian couples, but Lynch said that they are on the wrong side of history.
As evidence, the actress cited a memo from one of the party's own — former President George W. Bush's pollster Jan van Lohuizen.
In a message to fellow Republicans obtained by Politico, Lohuizen said the party must change its tune on the issue, because support for gay marriage is intensifying.
"As more people have become aware of friends and family members who are gay, attitudes have begun to shift at an accelerated pace," van Lohuizen wrote. "This is not about a generational shift in attitudes, this is about people changing their thinking as they recognize their friends and family members who are gay or lesbian.”
Lynch did an ace job filling Maddow's wonky and acerbic shoes, but she told the MSNBC host that even that she's sticking with her day job.
"I would love to play [a cable news host]," Lynch said. "I don't know that I would want to do it day in and day out. I know how much you work and how you have to have your finger on the pulse."
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Well said.
Jay-Z was asked by CNN about what he thought about President Obama's recent endorsement of gay marriage. He's what he had to say:
“I’ve always thought it as something that was still holding the country back. What people do in their own homes is their business and you can choose to love whoever you love. That’s their business. It's no different than discriminating against blacks. It’s discrimination plain and simple…I think it's the right thing to do, so whether it costs him votes or not – again, it's not about votes. It's about people. It's the right thing to do as a human being.”
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On Friday, the White House announced that legendary women’s basketball coach Patricia “Pat” Summitt will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of America’s highest civilian honors. Summitt, who was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease in 2011, launched The Pat Summit Foundation Fund to provide grants for nonprofit organizations that provide Alzheimer’s education, support, and [...]
Criticism over the absence of women in the main competition at Cannes continues to be an issue at the festival, with a scathing open letter decrying the situation and a couple of notable filmmakers discussing the issue as well.
Before the festival began, an open letter ran in the French newspaper Le Monde. "Men are fond of depth in women," read one line of the letter, "but only in their cleavage."
The letter, which was signed by the feminist action group La Barbe ("The Beard"), including directors Fanny Cottencon and Virginie Despentes, was originally published in French and then translated into English by the Telegraph.
(Left: Cannes jurors Diane Kruger and Andrea Arnold)
"With great understanding of the monumental importance of such an event, you were able to dissuade women from aspiring to set foot in this closely-guarded world," said the sarcastic letter, which is addressed to Cannes organizers.
"Above all, never let the girls think they can one day have the presumptuousness to make movies or to climb those famous Festival Palace steps, except when attached to the arm of a prince charming."
Also read: Cannes 2012: It's a Man's World (But at Least the Man Isn't Lars von Trier)
Pointing out that only once has a woman director won the Palme d'Or – Jane Campion in 1993 for "The Piano" – the writers said last year's unprecedented roster of four women in competition for the main prize was "doubtless due to a lack of vigilance."
"Women, mind your spools of thread!" the letter concludes. "And men, as the Lumière Brothers did before you, mind your film reels! And let the Cannes Film Festival competition forever be a man's world!"
(The full letter, in French, is available at Le Monde, and the English translation at the Guardian.)
At the press conference announcing Cannes jurors on Wednesday, the jury of five men and four women was asked about the controversy.
"I'd absolutely hate it if my film got selected only because I'm a woman," said Andrea Arnold, the one woman on the panel who is not an actress, and a director whose films "Red Road" and "Fish Tank" showed at Cannes in 2006 and 2009, respectively. "I would only want my film to be selected for the right reason, not out of charity.
"There were three, was it three films last year directed by women?" she added, understating the number by one. "So obviously it was a good year … It's true the world over in the world of film that there are not many women film directors. I guess Cannes is just a small pocket that represents how it really is out there in the world. And that's a great pity and a great disappointment."
Another juror, German actress Diane Kruger, pointed to the fact that "Lily Sometimes," a film directed by Fabienne Berthaud in which Kruger appeared, closed the Directors Fortnight section of Cannes in 2010. (Directors Fortnight is run independently from the main festival.)
"My impression," Kruger said, "is that women are made welcome in Cannes."
Similar criticism was leveled at Cannes the year "Lily Sometimes" screened, because that was another year in which no films from women directors were in the official competition. That year, a petition circulated during the festival, drawing more than 1,000 signatures by the time the Palme d'Or went to "Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives."
Lucy Walker, a British-born director whose films include the Oscar-nominated feature "Waste Land" and short "The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom," was represented at Cannes that year with her film "Countdown to Zero," which screened out of competition but in the official selection.
(Walker, left, with Meg Ryan and producer Lawrence Bender at her Cannes screening)
TheWrap asked Walker if she'd care to comment on this year's absence of women directors, and she took the long view of the issue in a lengthy email:
"Regardless of whether the problem is that there are no female-directed films for Cannes to select, or whether the problem is that female directed were not selected, the statistics about the dearth of female film directors are remarkable and deserving of attention and action," she wrote. "I believe that the former is the important problem, and that women are not getting sufficient opportunities to direct films at all.
"I was born in the 1970s, and I grew up being told that the old problem of sexism had been solved, gender inequality was a thing of the past, and I could choose any career I wanted. I could look around and see that it was true, because little girls and boys were obviously equally talented. Cut to today, to find myself in a career in which five percent, not 50 percent of films in Hollywood last year were directed by women. And my personal experience is that this is getting worse, as the statistics also suggest.
"If you would permit me to be offensively immodest for a moment, I would say that I believe myself to be more skilled and qualified than many male directors whose films are greenlit and subsequently invited to Cannes. But I've never gotten any of my fiction films greenlit.
"I can also say that when I had a film in the Official Selection at Cannes, there were a couple of episodes which I would describe as sexist and disappointing – such as the male producer [of 'Countdown to Zero'] being handed the microphone at the screening, instead of the director as at every other screening.
"This was much-remarked-upon and protested at the time, but unfortunately it is not unique to Cannes. If my career was the kind where you would bring inequality lawsuits, I'd have a few jaw-dropping cases for every project I've directed. And those are the projects that I actually got to make. What about the films I've worked on that never got made? Was sexism a factor there?"
Even if Cannes is indicative of a far wider problem, the festival does have a certain old-school style and mindset. That much was clear, Andrea Arnold pointed out, when moderator Henri Behar introduced the jury at the press conference by starting with the women.
"I don’t know if I should say this or not," she said, "but it was very interesting when we were being introduced that you introduced the girls first. I wondered if maybe it should be alphabetical for everyone."
"Well, I'm French," explained Behar.
Comcast Corp. announced Thursday that it is lifting its cap on customers' monthly bandwidth use in favor of a model that will enable subscribers to buy as much bandwidth as they want.
In a conference call with reporters, Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen said the new policy — which will increase bandwidth caps from 250 gigabytes a month to at least 300 gigabytes a month — should address a complaint raised by Netflix that Comcast discriminates against the rental and streaming giant. Netflix's concern partly stemmed from Comcast's exemption of its XfinityTV app on Xbox from the bandwidth caps.
Also read: Netflix Turning Up the Heat on AT&T, Comcast and TWC Over Data Caps
“This really isn’t the call to debate the propriety or the impropriety of the way in which we’re treating the Xfinity app,” said Cohen, in response to a reporter’s question. “It is a real stretch to create a discrimination argument here,” said Cohen, contending that the company’s XfinityTV app is completely legal and appropriate.
Cohen noted that Netflix had acknowledged in a recent earnings call that the static 250 GB cap had not interfered with its service.
Cohen also said if the static 250 gigabyte cap didn’t get in the way of Netflix’s service, then a 20% increase to the 300 GB limit, along with the ability to purchase additional bandwidth, gives Comcast customers the ability to have “infinite use of their service, as long as they pay their fair share.”
Also read: Sen. Franken Wants Obama Administration to Investigate Comcast
Netflix spokesman Joris Evers responded in a statement: "Increasing the data cap is a small step in the right direction, but unfortunately Comcast continues to treat its own Internet delivered video different under the cap than other Internet delivered video. We continue to stand by the principle that ISPs should treat all providers of video services equally."
“It’s nice that they changed the cap,” Art Brodsky, a spokesman for the watchdog Public Knowledge, told TheWrap. “But we still don’t know the basis for the change or why a cap is necessary.”
Joel Kelsey, a policy adviser for the watchdog Free Press, said in a statement: "While the move to increase its caps are overdue, the notion that Comcast would charge an exorbitant rate for additional bandwidth — while continuing to exempt its own traffic under its Xbox deal — illustrates that Comcast is really trying to discourage subscribers from experimenting with online video alternatives. We call on Comcast to drop the caps and these exorbitant overage fees entirely."
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John Travolta's second massage accuser has dropped his case– but the "Pulp Fiction" actor isn't out of the woods just yet.
The second masseur to accuse the "Pulp Fiction" star of inappropriate behavior during a massage session — identified as John Doe #2 in the complaint — moved to dismiss his complaint Wednesday, following on the heels of the first plaintiff, who moved to dismiss his complaint earlier this week.
Also read: John Travolta Sex Claims: John Doe #1 Parts Ways With His Lawyer
However, like John Doe #1, the second accuser filed to dismiss his complaint without prejudice, meaning he can refile if he chooses. He's also followed in the first plaintiff's footsteps by retaining media-friendly lawyer Gloria Allred to represent him.
Allred said in a statement that John Doe #2's case may be re-filed in another legal venue.
"We are now representing John Doe #2," Allred said in a statement provided to TheWrap. "We believe that the lawsuit should be filed in another court and, therefore, the lawsuit was dismissed without prejudice. We will be conferring with our client regarding what will happen next in this case."
Allred told TheWrap on Wednesday that she is "in the process of conferring with" John Doe #1 "regarding the next steps, which he may wish to take."
Also read: John Doe's Massage Accuser #1 Is Back — With Gloria Allred
The attorney who filed the original complaint, Okorie Okorocha, has not yet responded to TheWrap's request for comment.
John Doe #2 — who was added to the lawsuit with an amended complaint days after the complaint was originally filed — claimed that Travolta groped his buttocks and began masturbating during Jan. 28 massage session at an Atlanta resort.
The initial plaintiff made similar claims about an alleged Jan. 16 massage session at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Jan. 16, though photos and a restaurant receipt placed Travolta in New York City on that day. Reports soon surfaced that the plaintiff had gotten the date of the alleged encounter incorrect, and he parted ways with Okorocha soon after.
Travolta's attorney Martin Singer — who has venehmently denied both men's claims — has not yet responded to TheWrap's request for comment on the second plaintiff's dismissal.
Pamela Chelin contributed to this report.
With her second daughter Gloria Ray now 1 month old, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal is likely getting the hang of handling two children. In the weeks before Gloria’s birth, though, the Hysteria star admitted that she wasn’t sure what to expect.
“I’m curious to see how much I remember about nursing and changing diapers. About all of it. I have no idea how to do it with two,” Maggie, who is also mom to 5-year-old Ramona, told the USA Today. “Having children is the most humbling thing you can do.”
Might the success of Phillip Phillips on American Idol be jeopardizing his health? Without a doubt, YES, according to the singer’s doctors.
TMZ reports that the finalist’s physicians are adamant: Phillips needs surgery to repair a kidney issue as soon as possible. His family doctor even spent the entire day last Saturday – during Phillip’s Idol-sponsored trip home to Georgia – by the contestant’s side.
But Phillips would be sidelines for six weeks if he underwent the recommended procedure, so he is choosing to soldier on through at least next Thursday’s American Idol finale.
In the meantime, Phillip is simply taking medication, but that’s also resulting in dry mouth and possibly impacting his singing. Either way, though, win or lose, the talented young man’s journey will come to an end in one week.
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“New Girl” star Zooey Deschanel will be playing Country Music Hall of Fame member Loretta Lynn in the broadway musical adaptation of “Coal Miner’s Daughter.” Lynn, 80, announced the news during a Grand Ole Opry show at the Ryman Auditorium on Thursday night. Wearing one of her signature long sleeve, floor length dresses, the singer [...]
Hint: This celebrity kid’s dad plays for the New York Knicks. Guess that celebrity kid!
It’s Amar’e Jr, the son of basketball player Amar’e Stoudemire. Check out archived pictures of Amar’e and his family.
Amar’e Jr. is pictured with rapper Lil Wayne.
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"Battleship" is getting shelled by critics, who are calling the $220 million board game adaptation a loud and joyless exercise in blockbuster filmmaking.
The action film hits theaters this weekend and faces a threat greater than a horde of Kamikazes. That would be "The Avengers," a remarkably resilient box office phenomenon, now in its third week of release.
"Battleship" hopefully wasn't counting on critical raves to help it enlist audiences. It received a limpid 36 percent "fresh" rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.
Peter Berg's naval adventure did have a few admirers, including TheWrap's own Alonso Duralde. Well, maybe not admirers, but at least they weren't detractors.
"This thing lasts 131 minutes but almost never drags, and there’s something to be said for keeping this much baloney aloft for that long," Duralde wrote. "Like the bulky and unwieldy vessel for which it’s named, “Battleship” is both indefensible and unassailable."
Clearly not enjoying the ride was New York Post critic Kyle Smith, who compared the film and its cocksure star Taylor Kitsch to a Tom Cruise rah-rah classic from the 1980s, only to find it lacking.
Also read: 'Battleship' Review: Sheer Adrenaline Keeps Dopey Action Epic Afloat
"It makes 'Top Gun' look like the work of Orson Welles," Smith wrote. "At least the Tom Cruise movie remembered to cast actual actors."
Also feeling seasick was Slate's Dana Stevens, who declared that "Battleship" softens viewers' brain tissue, it's so stupifying.
"You know how, even in a terrible movie, there’ll often be one subplot or performance that you find yourself looking forward to during the dull parts?" Stevens wrote. "This film offers no such respite. Every storyline, from the ne’er-do-well Navy lieutenant who suddenly finds himself in charge of defending his ship from aliens to the physical therapist scaling a mountain with her double-amputee client, is equally worthy of dread."
Also read: How 'Battleship' Enlisted the Navy
Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan is also not clearing off any space on his 10 best list for "Battleship. Turan said the film was "ordinary" and "pedestrian," a lot of sound and fury signifying… you guessed it.
"If 'Scrabble: The Movie' or 'Qwirkle or Death' appears on a future marquee, don't say you weren't warned," Turan writes.
One fan in a sea of haters was Entertainment Weekly's Lisa Schwarzbaum, who hailed Berg for crafting a stirring salute to the U.S. Navy.
"The surprise, for this veteran of board games, is that 'Battleship' is also the rousing, engaging, and emotionally complex action war picture the silly 2001 action war picture 'Pearl Harbor' only wished it could be," Schwarzbaum wrote. "It's 'Pearl Harbor' with greater intelligence, less hokum, and more aliens."
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Legendary disco diva Donna Summer has died, a spokesman confirmed to TheWrap.
The "Hot Stuff" and "Last Dance" singer was 63. No cause of death was given, but TMZ reports Summer had been battling cancer.
In a statement, Summer's family praise the singer's religious faith.
"While we grieve her passing, we are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy," the statement reads. "Words truly can't express how much we appreciate your prayers and love for our family at this sensitive time."
Summer's soaring mezzo-soprano voice and catchy lyrics provided the soundtrack to the 1970s, making it nearly impossible to think of many of that decade's cultural touchstones, be they bell-bottoms or disco balls, without calling to mind her hit singles.
Also read: Barbra Streisand on Donna Summer: 'She Had an Amazing Voice'
Among the songs that helped cement Summer's legacy were "She Works Hard for the Money," "Bad Girls," and "Dim All the Lights." In a career that spanned four decades, she would earn 5 Grammy awards and 17 nominations over the course of her career.
In a 2003 interview with the New York Times, Summer said that she felt that her propulsive, candy coated dance numbers captured the national zeitgeist of the 1970s and helped people turn the page on the chaotic social upheaval of the previous decade.
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"In that period people were in a dance mood," Summer said. "They wanted to be lifted up, they wanted to have fun, they didn't want to think.''
''You were coming out of the Vietnam war, the 60's , the protest era, and I was coming out of it as well,'' she added. ''I think people were just in a different mind set. When dance music came out, with that beat and that movement, it was a switch.''
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Yet while Summer may have downplayed her political significance, one group who embraced her music was the gay community. Emboldened by the Stonewall Riots, Summer's anthems of empowerment touched a cord with a group that was beginning to agitate for greater political rights and freedoms.
That relationship endured throughout her career, but did undergo significant strain after reports surfaced that Summer made anti-gay remarks about AIDS victims in the mid-1980s and called the disease divine retribution.
She claimed that she never made the statements and would later sue New York magazine in 1991 for libel when they reprinted the allegations.
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In a 1989 letter to an AIDS activist group, Summer wrote, "I was unknowingly protected by those around me from the bad press and hate letters….If I have caused you pain, forgive me."
Though Summer and disco were nearly interchangeable, she proved herself to be a musical chameleon; one who survived the end of the Studio 54 era and continued to produce chart-topping songs into the 1980s and beyond.
Over the ensuing three decades, Summer branched into new genres, such as new wave, with her 1980 album "The Wanderer"; swing on her poorly received 1991 album "Mistaken Identity"; and gospel with her 1994 holiday album "Christmas Spirit."
The singer is survived by her husband – singer and producer Bruce Sudano; their daughters, Brooklyn and Amanda; and Summer's daughter, Mimi, from a previous marriage.
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Cambio was lucky enough to interview The Wanted and these guys aren’t short on charm–or funny answers.
The Wanted’s Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Jay McGuiness, Tom Parker and Nathan Sykes sat down to answer a lineup of questions and had some interesting responses.
Check out the video for the full interview, which includes their vices (they say “partying”) and guilty pleasures (Camp Rock, mint ice cream, “love” movies like The Notebook and Twilight).
Find out some of the things The Wanted‘s fans don’t know–including which of the band members has ADHD, who has hairy toes and who chipped a tooth “by chewing on a screwdriver.”
We’ll leave their crazy tour story up to the guys to explain–let’s just say it involves some bathroom talk.
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Watch The Wanted’s Tom Parker sing karaoke at a Los Angeles bar–so good!
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Richard Dreyfuss has joined the cast of “Squatters,” the latest film from "The Hills Have Eyes 2" director Martin Weisz.
From a script by Justin Shilton, "Squatters" tells the story of a young homeless couple who move into a vacant mansion in the Pacific Palisades to escape. When the owners return, the couple tries to take advantage of the situation.
Also joining the cast are Lolita Davidovich, Nancy Travis, Evan Ross, Luke Grimes and Andrew Howard.
Thomas Dekker of "Foreverland" and Gabriella Wilde from "The Three Musketeers" had already signed on.
Weisz, who has shot music videos for everyone from Korn to Nickelback, is producing with Julius R. Nasso's Julius R. Nasso Productions, as well as Todd Moyer, Cordula Betz and
The film has just begun production.
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It's hard, at the artsiest film festival of all, to get a bunch of celebrities to talk about their happiest moments as voice actors in a successful cartoon franchise.
So during a half-hour news conference with “Madagascar 3” stars Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada-Pinkett Smith, Jessica Chastain and Martin Short, they ended up taking a survey on their family's circus attendance. The film involves a European circus.
Schwimmer said he had a one-year-old so, no, he hadn’t gone.
Pinkett-Smith said that she should have gone with her kids, but said she hadn’t.
Short said his kids were in their 50s, so – no.
“Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted,” takes place in European capitals and docks in the port of Monte Carlo, just down the road from Cannes. So the film festival invited the DreamWorks Animated movie to screen out of competition.
Much of the movie action involves joining a European circus, so Cirque de Soleil came up repeatedly. An Albanian journalist asked if they had hired a “circus consultant.” They hadn’t.
It didn’t get any easier with DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg observing sphinx-like from the corner.
Directors Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon and Eric Darnell all spoke winningly of the script by Noah Baumbach and the challenges of bringing the characters Alex, Marty and Gloria back.
And finally McGrath addressed the elephant in the room (pun intended): “Do we deserve to be here?” he asked. “The festival honors all kinds of films,” he allowed.
Yes, that it does.
MTV has canceled its romantic dramedy series "I Just Want My Pants Back" after one season.
"We're proud to have aired 'I Just Want My Pants Back,' with its impressive creative pedigree and talented group of actors," MTV said in a statement. "Many factors go in to determining renewals, however, and ultimately, we decided not to move forward with an additional season of 'Pants.'"
One likely reason for the cancelation: MTV's cup overfloweth with upcoming series, including "Inbetweeners," Craig Wright's "Underemployed" and "Gonna be Famous" with Zach Stone and Bo Burnham, plus sophomore seasons of "Awkward" and "Teen Wolf" in June.
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The ratings for "Pants" started off strong, but dwindled throughout its debut season.
The show, which revolved around a group of twentysomething hipsters in Brooklyn, was produced by Liman and Dave Bartis' Hypnotic production company and Universal Cable Productions.
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Marion Cotillard and Jacques Audiard were the luminaries on Thursday at Cannes, with the almost universally well-received "Rust and Bone" staking a claim to be in the awards picture (though some naysayers disagree). Cotillard in particular is drawing some very, very early awards heat, as well as proving irresistible to just about every photographer on the Croisette.
The film, director Audiard said at a press conference, was a direct reaction to his last movie, the prison-set Oscar nominee "A Prophet." According to the AP's Jill Lawless, Audiard described that film as "very male," while "Rust and Bone" was designed to be "full of light and space."
Also read: Cannes Review: In 'Rust and Bone,' Jacques Audiard Burrows in Soul of Trauma
But Audiard's version of lightness can also be dark and difficult. "I said to Jacques [after reading the script], 'I'm a bit scared, I don't know how this is going to work,'" Cotillard said of playing a woman who loses her legs in an accident. "And he said, 'I don't know either.'"
Meanwhile, the groundswell of protest over the absence of competition films directed by women continues to grow: A petition now circulating at the festival has drawn more than 800 signatures, including those of "Toy Story 3" producer Darla Anderson and "My Brilliant Career" director Gillian Armstrong. (Also signing: Gloria Steinem.)
"We call for Cannes, and other film festivals worldwide to commit to transparency and equality in the selection process of these films," reads part of the petition, which is hosted at change.org. "We judge films as human beings, shaped by our own perspectives and experiences. It is vital, therefore, that there be equality and diversity at the point of selection."
As the petition was picking up signatures, though, IFP, the Calvin Klein Collection and euphoria Calvin Klein threw a party to celebrate Women in Film. The guest list wasn't long on women directors, but plenty of actresses were on hand, among them Naomi Watts, Jada Pinkett Smith, juror Diane Kruger, Jessica Chastain (right) and Shailene Woodley (left).
Ben Stiller and Chris Rock were there, too. They're not women in film, and they don’t have a movie in the competition – but they're two of the voices in "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted," and the last few years it's practically guaranteed that DreamWorks Animation's big summer release will get a sneak preview at Cannes.
The Marche du Film marketplace isn't an official part of the Cannes Film Festival, but it's definitely a part of the Cannes experience. And amid the deal-making and schlock-hawking, director/writer/producer Guillermo del Toro showed up via video link on Wednesday to talk about the version of "Pinocchio" he's planning.
The film, del Toro told a overflowing room full of buyers (as reported by Stuart Kemp), will be done in 3D and stop-motion, and won't be ready until 2014. It'll be co-directed by Mark Gustafson and del Toro, who'd planned to executive produce until he found the lure of the dark, gothic adaptation too strong to resist. Daniel Radcliffe, Christopher Walken and singer Tom Waits are among the voice talent he's considering.
Finally, here are a couple of dispatches from late Wednesday night, in the wee hours as the post-premiere party for "Moonrise Kingdom" was winding down. In the New York Times, Manohla Dargis rhapsodizes about the dessert (which apparently involved lights and plastic cups of "haute cuisine soft-serve" embedded in blocks of ice), and responds to Bill Murray's question about how she liked the film by calling it one of Wes Anderson's "supreme achievements."
Vulture's Jada Yuan picks up the story from there, and says the party didn't really get going until Murray gave in to the entreaties of the film's young cast members and hit the dance floor.
"It was a scene of such next-level adorability that nearly everyone in the immediate vicinity pulled out a camera phone," writes Yuan, who says she later joined in a group circle dance that numbered at least 20 and was "better than chocolate," in the opinion of the movie's preteen stars.
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Lea Michele and Cory Monteith dating rumors are a thing of the past–after the couple’s kiss earlier this week at a hockey game, we’d say things are definitely heating up.
Lea and Cory kissed during the Rangers/Devils hockey game at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday and, of course, a camera snapped their romantic PDA moment.
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Lea tweeted: “Let’s go Rangers!!” that day (though her cheering didn’t help–the Rangers lost). Lea and Cory were also spotted holding hands while out shopping in NYC the same day.
They make such a cute couple–it’s nice to see them finally taking their real-life romance public. Looks like their couple’s mash-up name can now be put into full swing: Monchele.
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The Wanted group member Tom Parker was in Los Angeles on Monday and decided to hit up Rock & Reilly’s Irish Pub, a place the group allegedly loves to chill at while in town.
Thankfully, a friend of ours was there too and snagged the footage below…
While at the pub and we’re sure after a few drinks too (hey, he’s old enough!), Tom decided to do his best at karaoke and serenaded the entire place with Oasis’ “Don’t Look Back In Anger.”
From the video taken, it looks like Tom is totally having a blast and had the whole pub singing along with him too!
Oh and excuse his potty mouth! Yikes!
So, how do you think Tom did?
Have you ever seen a celeb out and about?
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At five months along, Nicole ‘Snooki‘ Polizzi took to Twitter to share a series of snapshots showcasing herself wearing a tight black dress that shows off her svelte figure and growing baby bump.
“Love this photo,” the expectant Jersey Shore star wrote. “Shows off my bump perfectly.”
She has a heart as gold as her many records.
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Criticism over the absence of women in the main competition at Cannes continues to be an issue at the festival, with a scathing open letter decrying the situation and a couple of notable filmmakers discussing the issue as well.
Before the festival began, an open letter ran in the French newspaper Le Monde. "Men are fond of depth in women," read one line of the letter, "but only in their cleavage."
The letter, which was signed by the feminist action group La Barbe ("The Beard"), including directors Fanny Cottencon and Virginie Despentes, was originally published in French and then translated into English by the Telegraph.
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"With great understanding of the monumental importance of such an event, you were able to dissuade women from aspiring to set foot in this closely-guarded world," said the sarcastic letter, which is addressed to Cannes organizers.
"Above all, never let the girls think they can one day have the presumptuousness to make movies or to climb those famous Festival Palace steps, except when attached to the arm of a prince charming."
Also read: Cannes 2012: It's a Man's World (But at Least the Man Isn't Lars von Trier)
Pointing out that only once has a woman director won the Palme d'Or – Jane Campion in 1993 for "The Piano" – the writers said last year's unprecedented roster of four women in competition for the main prize was "doubtless due to a lack of vigilance."
"Women, mind your spools of thread!" the letter concludes. "And men, as the Lumière Brothers did before you, mind your film reels! And let the Cannes Film Festival competition forever be a man's world!"
(The full letter, in French, is available at Le Monde, and the English translation at the Guardian.)
At the press conference announcing Cannes jurors on Wednesday, the jury of five men and four women was asked about the controversy.
"I'd absolutely hate it if my film got selected only because I'm a woman," said Andrea Arnold, the one woman on the panel who is not an actress, and a director whose films "Red Road" and "Fish Tank" showed at Cannes in 2006 and 2009, respectively. "I would only want my film to be selected for the right reason, not out of charity.
"There were three, was it three films last year directed by women?" she added, understating the number by one. "So obviously it was a good year … It's true the world over in the world of film that there are not many women film directors. I guess Cannes is just a small pocket that represents how it really is out there in the world. And that's a great pity and a great disappointment."
Another juror, German actress Diane Kruger, pointed to the fact that "Lily Sometimes," a film directed by Fabienne Berthaud in which Kruger appeared, closed the Directors Fortnight section of Cannes in 2010. (Directors Fortnight is run independently from the main festival.)
"My impression," Kruger said, "is that women are made welcome in Cannes."
Similar criticism was leveled at Cannes the year "Lily Sometimes" screened, because that was another year in which no films from women directors were in the official competition. That year, a petition circulated during the festival, drawing more than 1,000 signatures by the time the Palme d'Or went to "Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives."
Lucy Walker, a British-born director whose films include the Oscar-nominated feature "Waste Land" and short "The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom," was represented at Cannes that year with her film "Countdown to Zero," which screened out of competition but in the official selection.
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TheWrap asked Walker if she'd care to comment on this year's absence of women directors, and she took the long view of the issue in a lengthy email:
"Regardless of whether the problem is that there are no female-directed films for Cannes to select, or whether the problem is that female directed were not selected, the statistics about the dearth of female film directors are remarkable and deserving of attention and action," she wrote. "I believe that the former is the important problem, and that women are not getting sufficient opportunities to direct films at all.
"I was born in the 1970s, and I grew up being told that the old problem of sexism had been solved, gender inequality was a thing of the past, and I could choose any career I wanted. I could look around and see that it was true, because little girls and boys were obviously equally talented. Cut to today, to find myself in a career in which five percent, not 50 percent of films in Hollywood last year were directed by women. And my personal experience is that this is getting worse, as the statistics also suggest.
"If you would permit me to be offensively immodest for a moment, I would say that I believe myself to be more skilled and qualified than many male directors whose films are greenlit and subsequently invited to Cannes. But I've never gotten any of my fiction films greenlit.
"I can also say that when I had a film in the Official Selection at Cannes, there were a couple of episodes which I would describe as sexist and disappointing – such as the male producer [of 'Countdown to Zero'] being handed the microphone at the screening, instead of the director as at every other screening.
"This was much-remarked-upon and protested at the time, but unfortunately it is not unique to Cannes. If my career was the kind where you would bring inequality lawsuits, I'd have a few jaw-dropping cases for every project I've directed. And those are the projects that I actually got to make. What about the films I've worked on that never got made? Was sexism a factor there?"
Even if Cannes is indicative of a far wider problem, the festival does have a certain old-school style and mindset. That much was clear, Andrea Arnold pointed out, when moderator Henri Behar introduced the jury at the press conference by starting with the women.
"I don’t know if I should say this or not," she said, "but it was very interesting when we were being introduced that you introduced the girls first. I wondered if maybe it should be alphabetical for everyone."
"Well, I'm French," explained Behar.
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