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US actor and producer Harvey Keitel attends the 18th edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival  in Marrakech, Morocco, on Monday. — AFP
Hollywood 'needs to be reformed', says Harvey Keitel
MARRAKESH, Morocco — Movie tough guy Harvey Keitel, who plays a mobster in Martin Scorsese's Netflix gangster epic "The Irishman", has some advice for Hollywood: get back in touch with your creative side.In the era of global blockbusters, he argued, studios should refocus on making movies that are less commercialized and more authentic.Keitel, who has just turned 80, recalled that Scorsese had said he "could not have gotten 'The Irishman' made but for the good graces of Netflix — no studio wanted to do it, nobody wanted to do it"."This is a very good example of what is happening with Netflix," he said."The fact that we're losing cinemas we are all a bit sad about. But for me personally, I always think, well, that's what changes as...
December 03, 2019

Hollywood 'needs to be reformed', says Harvey Keitel

Bottega Veneta Creative director Daniel Lee poses after the company won the Brand of the Year award, following their award presentation at The Fashion Awards 2019 in London, on Monday. — AFP
Bottega Veneta big winner at Fashion Awards in London
LONDON — Bottega Veneta and its young artistic director Daniel Lee were the big winners at the 2019 Fashion Awards on Monday, taking four awards in a star-studded ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall in London.The Italian fashion house which specializes in high-end leather goods just last year named the 33-year-old Briton as creative director of the brand.It was mission accomplished for the young Lee, with Bottega Veneta — founded in 1966 in Vicenza — named "brand of the year" at the annual British Fashion Council gathering.And Lee, who worked at Margiela, Balenciaga and Donna Karan before taking over management of Celine's ready-to-wear collections for five years, was crowned "designer of the year".He was also named "British designer of the year,...
December 03, 2019

Bottega Veneta big winner at Fashion Awards in London

Hadeel Othman, Information and communication manager of the “Sudan Film Factory,” speaks  in the Sudanese capital Khartoum in this Nov. 11, 2019 file. — AFP
Sudan cinema flickers back to life after Bashir ouster
KHARTOUM — Talal Afifi has worked for years to revive Sudanese cinema which has languished through decades of authoritarian rule. With the fall of longtime leader Omar Bashir, he sees new hope.Bashir's rule of 30 years had seen cinemas shuttered and US sanctions prevent imports of vital equipment in a country once known as a pioneer for film-making in Africa.When Afifi attended a 2008 short film festival in Munich, the winning film — an Iraqi documentary shot on a handycam — inspired him to return home and set up a training center and production house."I wanted to remind people that there is a place called Sudan, which was once renowned in the field of cinema, and that it still has its heart beating for this art," he said.The Sudan Film Factory, based in a suburban...
December 03, 2019

Sudan cinema flickers back to life after Bashir ouster

Jung Joon-young
K-pop star jailed for 6 years for gang rape, spy-cam crimes
SEOUL — South Korean singer-songwriter Jung Joon-young was convicted on Friday of gang rape and distributing videos of the assaults and other sexual encounters, and was jailed for six years in a scandal that has rocked K-pop.Jung and Choi Jong-hoon, a former member of boy band FT Island, were found guilty of gang-raping two different victims on two occasions in 2016.Separately, 30-year-old Jung was also convicted of filming himself having sex with other women without their knowledge and sharing the footage without their consent.It is the highest-profile example of an epidemic of spy-cam crimes in South Korea, which have prompted widespread anger and seen women demonstrating in Seoul, chanting: "My life is not your porn".Jung distributed his videos in mobile chat rooms with...
November 29, 2019

K-pop star jailed for 6 years for gang rape, spy-cam crimes

Bollywood actress Tanushree Dutta attends the 'MTV IWM Buzz Digital Awards' ceremony in Mumbai. A year after Bollywood followed Hollywood by naming male predators accused of sexual harassment, many women say they have suffered while alleged perpetrators are back in the limelight. — AFP
No industry for women: Bollywood #MeToo accused back at work
MUMBAI — A year after Bollywood followed Hollywood by naming male predators accused of sexual harassment, many women say they have suffered while alleged perpetrators are back in the limelight.In the US, #MeToo triggered the downfall of powerbrokers including Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, and Brett Ratner. Victims were hailed as trailblazers for speaking out, and millions of dollars were raised to support their cases.In Bollywood, women have faced a backlash, campaigners say.When singer Sona Mohapatra accused composer Anu Malik of sexual misconduct she was told to vacate her judge's seat on TV talent show, "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa"."I was marked as a troublemaker and asked to leave. Overnight," Mohapatra said last month. Program producers Zee TV denied her claims,...
November 29, 2019

No industry for women: Bollywood #MeToo accused back at work

Clive James
Australian broadcaster and writer Clive James dies aged 80
LONDON — Clive James, the Australian broadcaster, writer, critic and poet who charmed generations of Britons with his humor and wit, has died at the age of 80, his agents said on Wednesday.James died "peacefully and at home, surrounded by his family and his books" in Cambridge, eastern England, on Sunday, United Agents said in a statement.A private funeral attended by family and close friends took place on Wednesday in the chapel at Pembroke College in Cambridge University, where he read English literature as a student in the 1960s.The charismatic and erudite broadcaster, who left Sydney for England in late 1961 and made his career in Britain, had fought a long battle with leukemia."Clive died almost 10 years after his first terminal diagnosis and one month after he laid...
November 27, 2019

Australian broadcaster and writer Clive James dies aged 80

French chef Marc Veyrat holds a Michelin guide after being awarded the maximum three Michelin stars, during the Michelin guide award ceremony at La Seine Musicale in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris in this Feb. 5, 2018 file photo. — AFP
Michelin brands French chef 'diva' in 'Cheddargate' case
NANTERRE, France — A French celebrity chef has been branded a "diva" for taking the Michelin guide to court on Wednesday for suggesting he used cheddar cheese in a souffle.In a case that could have far-reaching consequences for restaurant critics, chef Marc Veyrat is claiming he was "dishonored" by the red guide when it stripped his flagship restaurant in the French Alps of its coveted third star in January.Dubbed "Cheddargate" by wags, he claimed that an "incompetent" Michelin inspector mistakenly thought he had adulterated a souffle with the much-maligned English cheese instead of using France's Reblochon, Beaufort and Tomme varieties.It is the first time that a chef has sued the guide, the most prestigious in the world.If Veyrat wins the...
November 27, 2019

Michelin brands French chef 'diva' in 'Cheddargate' case

Pamela Anderson
Australia PM turns down plea from Baywatch star to bring Assange home
SYDNEY — Australia's prime minister has told former "Baywatch" star Pamela Anderson that Canberra will not intervene to bring her friend, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, back home to prevent his extradition to the United States.The 48-year-old Australian is currently in jail in London for jumping bail and avoiding extradition to Sweden by fleeing to the Ecuadoran embassy, where he lived for seven years.He now again faces extradition, this time to the United States on charges of violating the Espionage Act.Anderson had written to Australian PM Scott Morrison warning that Assange was under intense psychological pressure at the high-security jail where he is being held.In the letter of response obtained by The Australian newspaper, Morrison responded by saying that...
November 27, 2019

Australia PM turns down plea from Baywatch star to bring Assange home

A mural depicting Egyptian novelist and Nobel prize winner Naguib Mahfouz is pictured behind the Al-Azhar mosque in downtown Cairo on Tuesday. — AFP
Nobel winner Mahfouz lives on in Cairo's alleyways
CAIRO — The legacy of Islamic Cairo's most famous son Naguib Mahfouz lives on in its winding lanes 21 years after he became the only Arab to win the Nobel Literature Prize.A mosaic of the bespectacled author overlooks a market teeming with children on bikes, waiters balancing trays of hot drinks and shoppers haggling with hawkers over the price of meat.It could be a scene straight out of a typical Mahfouz novel focusing on the minutiae of life in the Egyptian capital, with its satirically political overtones and timeless characters.After years in the making, a museum in the writer's honor opened in July this year.A new translation of previously unpublished Mahfouz work is also in print, underscoring 13 years after his death the mark he made both on world literature and on...
November 27, 2019

Nobel winner Mahfouz lives on in Cairo's alleyways

Mohamed Mounir
Morocco rapper gets one-year jail for insulting police
SALE, Morocco — A Moroccan court on Monday sentenced rapper Mohamed Mounir, known as Gnawi, to one year in jail for insulting police on social media, in what Amnesty condemned as "a disgraceful verdict".A defense lawyer said he believed his 31-year-old client was prosecuted because of a song he co-wrote about the hardships of young people in Morocco, unemployment and corruption.The song "Aach al Chaab" — which means long live the people — has been viewed more than 15 million times on YouTube since it was released last month.The lyrics denounce injustice and money-grabbing and attack Morocco's king directly, which according to local media constitutes a clear breach of the kingdom's "red lines".However, the court in Sale near the capital Rabat...
November 26, 2019

Morocco rapper gets one-year jail for insulting police

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