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Hadi, the name of the character portrayed by a Jordanian actor Rami Delshad, poses for a picture with Grover (Gargur in Arabic), left, Ma’zooza, center, and Basma, right, from the Sesame Street television series, in Dubai, in this Jan. 28, 2020 file photo. — AFP
Muppets help conflict kids in new Arabic 'Sesame Street'
DUBAI — A band of Muppets, both old favorites and new friends, will star in an Arabic retooling of "Sesame Street" with a regional twist.In its Western iterations, the long-running franchise addresses issues including family breakdown. The new Middle East version instead seeks to help children, especially young Syrian refugees, cope with emotions.New characters will join Cookie Monster (Kaa'ki), Grover (Gargur), Elmo and others in the new show in Arabic, called "Ahlan Simsim!" (Welcome Sesame)."We always play and sing and try new things and have many adventures," new puppet Basma, a five-year-old purple girl with a twin twist hairstyle, said on a publicity tour in Dubai."We have a lot of friends in the neighborhood, but Jad is my best friend,"...
February 02, 2020

Muppets help conflict kids in new Arabic 'Sesame Street'

The upcoming edition will also be the festival's first under new directors Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek, after former boss Dieter Kosslick ended an 18-year spell at the helm last year. — AFP
Berlin film fest unveils 2020 line-up amid diversity debate
BERLIN — Films starring Johnny Depp and Sigourney Weaver will be among those premiering at Berlin's film festival next month, organizers said, as they defended a competition line-up with fewer female directors than last year.The 11-day Berlinale, one of Europe's most prestigious film extravaganzas alongside Cannes and Venice, celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2020.The upcoming edition will also be the festival's first under new directors Carlo Chatrian and Mariette Rissenbeek, after former boss Dieter Kosslick ended an 18-year spell at the helm last year.Amid furious debate in Hollywood about the dominance of white winners at award shows, the duo said Wednesday they wanted the Berlin festival to "embrace diversity"."The history of the Berlinale is one of...
January 29, 2020

Berlin film fest unveils 2020 line-up amid diversity debate

Saif Ali Khan
Saif Ali Khan: A star in Bollywood — and on Netflix
MUMBAI — Saif Ali Khan, bonafide Bollywood royalty and star of Netflix hit "Sacred Games", says India's massive film industry does not need international audiences to thrive. But that may not be a good thing, he cautions.The 49-year-old actor, whose latest film "Jawaani Jaaneman" ("Youthful Lover") is out on Friday, has starred in multiple blockbusters over the years, from "Dil Chahta Hai" ("The Heart Desires") in 2001 to "Tanhaji", released earlier this month.Yet even as foreign films — like South Korean hit "Parasite" — find viewers and awards overseas, Bollywood has remained on the fringes of global entertainment, content to target India's 1.3 billion population and millions of others from the...
January 29, 2020

Saif Ali Khan: A star in Bollywood — and on Netflix

Harvey Weinstein, center, arrives using a walker at the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York in this file photo — AFP
Ruff justice: Weinstein laughs off Chihuahua claim
NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein's rape and sexual assault trial considered an unexpected question on Tuesday: was the heavyset former Hollywood titan scared of a Chihuahua called Peanut?During a light moment in proceedings dominated by uncomfortable testimony, the roommate of one of Weinstein's accusers recalled how her pet pooch had chased him around their apartment.Elizabeth Entin told the New York court that Mimi Haleyi, who accuses Weinstein of forcibly performing oral sex on her in 2006, called her and said "something weird had happened.""She said Harvey Weinstein showed up at our apartment and pushed his way in. I was a little startled and asked what happened?" said Entin."Apparently my Chihuahua Peanut was chasing him and he was a little scared. He was...
January 29, 2020

Ruff justice: Weinstein laughs off Chihuahua claim

Javier Bardem
Javier Bardem hails new treaty for actors' rights
GENEVA — A new international treaty giving new rights to film and television actors will come into force in April, the UN said on Tuesday, in a development hailed by Spanish screen star Javier Bardem as "an act of justice".The Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances was adopted in 2012, but is only coming into force now that the minimum required number of 30 countries have ratified it."The Beijing Treaty is the most important thing that has happened to actors since the invention of cinema," Bardem said in a video distributed alongside the announcement by the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).The treaty gives performers rights over the reproduction, distribution and rental of their audiovisual performances, which could mean they are able to...
January 29, 2020

Javier Bardem hails new treaty for actors' rights

The 33-year-old orangutan Sandra joined the Florida retirement community after a court in Argentina declared her a 'non-human person' with the right to liberty from a Buenos Aires zoo. — Courtesy photo
Showbiz apes find peace through painting in Florida retirement
WAUCHULA, Florida — One of them worked alongside Clint Eastwood, others acted in the remake of sci-fi classic "Planet of the Apes", while yet another was the darling favorite of Michael Jackson.They are the 53 chimpanzees and orangutans who live in a unique sanctuary in central Florida.All of these great apes were raised by humans and lack the basic survival skills to ever live in the wild. They do not know how to gather food, and the mothers would be incapable of caring for their offspring.For that reason, they had no other place to go when Hollywood or scientific research labs had no more use for them, or when they grew too big and powerful for their celebrity owners to continue caring for them. The lucky ones make the final journey to this oasis, officially known as the...
January 29, 2020

Showbiz apes find peace through painting in Florida retirement

Roman Polanski
Fury as Polanski's new film tops French 'Oscar' nominations
PARIS — Roman Polanski's new film "An Officer and a Spy" topped the list of nominations on Wednesday for the "French Oscars" sparking fury from feminists.The controversial director has been wanted in the US for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl since 1978 and is persona non grata in Hollywood.His period drama about the Dreyfus affair, which rocked France at the turn of the 20th century, is in line for 12 Cesars, the French equivalent of the Oscars.The head of the French film academy Alain Terzian said it "should not take moral positions" about giving awards.But their choice was swiftly condemned by feminists and some film critics."If rape was an art, give all the Cesars to Polanski," tweeted the French women's group, Osez le...
January 29, 2020

Fury as Polanski's new film tops French 'Oscar' nominations

Britain's Prince Andrew
UK's Prince Andrew urged to cooperate with US over Epstein
LONDON — Lawyers representing alleged victims of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday urged Britain's Prince Andrew to help US investigators, after a prosecutor said he had given "zero cooperation".US lawyer Gloria Allred, who represents five women allegedly assaulted by Epstein, said the Duke of York has "a moral obligation" to meet with the FBI and that his failure to do so was "a disservice to the victims"."It's long overdue for him to do it, or to explain why he will not do it, and he's done neither," she told BBC Radio."If he's done nothing wrong, which appears to be what he has claimed, then why won't he talk to law enforcement?"Andrew, 59, has strenuously denied claims he had sex with a 17-year-old...
January 28, 2020

UK's Prince Andrew urged to cooperate with US over Epstein

Mimi Haleyi, one of the women who accused former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assaults, is seen in this file photo. — AFP
Weinstein accuser details assault, challenged over emails
NEW YORK — One of Harvey Weinstein's main accusers told his rape trial on Monday that the ex-Hollywood producer forcibly performed oral sex on her in a children's bedroom in his New York home.Defense lawyers ferociously challenged Mimi Haleyi's account during cross-examination, saying emails she sent Weinstein showed the pair were in "a consensual relationship."Haleyi, a production assistant on reality TV show "Project Runway," cried as she told the Manhattan court that Weinstein sexually assaulted her in July 2006 while she was on her period.She described how the "Pulp Fiction" producer, then three times her weight, initially appeared "friendly" before backing her into a bedroom with children's drawings on the wall."He was...
January 28, 2020

Weinstein accuser details assault, challenged over emails

Billie Eilish, winner of Record of the Year for
Billie Eilish dominates the Grammys as music world mourns Kobe
LOS ANGELES — Pop iconoclast Billie Eilish cleaned up at the Grammys on Sunday, winning five awards, as the music world mourned the loss of LA's hometown basketball hero Kobe Bryant with a series of emotional tributes.Eilish, 18, swept the "big four" prizes — Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Best New Artist — in an industry acknowledgement of her wave-making role as the new reference point for pop's future."What's next? I don't know — be in this moment is all I'm thinking about," Eilish told reporters backstage.Lizzo — one of her main competitors, who won three awards — kicked off the glitzy gala at the Staples Center by dedicating it to Bryant, in the very arena where the NBA icon made history with the Los...
January 27, 2020

Billie Eilish dominates the Grammys as music world mourns Kobe

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