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In this file picture taken on June 3, 2019, a Kashmiri shopkeeper displays a wedding dress at a market  in Srinagar. -AFP
Kashmir trims its big fat weddings after Indian lockdown
SRINAGAR, India — After a year-long countdown, Arshi Nisar's wedding plans are in tatters, with the Kashmiri bride-to-be fearing for her guests' safety as an Indian security and communications clampdown on the Himalayan valley leaves residents on edge.The marketing manager had originally planned a three-day extravaganza, including a special make-up session, music, and a huge canopy to accommodate more than 700 guests invited to partake in the traditional 10-to-15 course Kashmiri feast known as wazwan.But like thousands of families in the troubled region, Nisar has resigned herself to an austere event, with no more than 40 guests in attendance — if they are able to venture out of their homes."I grew up dreaming about a grand wedding but there is not much to celebrate...
September 03, 2019

Kashmir trims its big fat weddings after Indian lockdown

Actor Penelope Cruz reacts as she leaves the hotel at the 76th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, on Monday. — Reuters
Tech making 'our brains explode' says star Penelope Cruz
VENICE, Italy — Hollywood star Penelope Cruz warned Sunday that technology was driving high anxiety that would one day make "all our brains explode".The Spanish mother-of-two said she was worried about how children's mental health and development were being affected by the ubiquity of tech."I have my personal war with it," she told reporters at the Venice film festival."I wish we could have lived in the 1990s for a little longer. For mental health issues that would have helped a lot, because I think things are going at a speed that we are unprepared for," said the actress.Cruz, 45, who is starring in "Wasp Network", a thriller about five Cuban undercover agents who became heroes for infiltrating radical exile networks in Florida, said tech was...
September 02, 2019

Tech making 'our brains explode' says star Penelope Cruz

British actor Jude Law, left, Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, center, and US actor John Malkovich attend a photo-call for the upcoming television series
Jude Law brings papal drama follow-up to Venice
VENICE, Italy — Jude Law brought the follow-up to "The Young Pope" to the Venice Film Festival on Sunday, presenting a glimpse of his return in the Paolo Sorrentino-directed papal drama, which at one point sees him wearing just "a napkin".The second series, called "The New Pope", sees Law reprise the role of Lenny Belardo, who becomes Pius XIII, the first American pope in history.After Law's character falls into a coma, the sophisticated John Brannox, played by Hollywood actor John Malkovich, is elected to the papal throne, taking the name John Paul III.Two episodes out of the series' nine screened at the festival, which runs until Saturday. A teaser trailer shows Law strolling down a beach wearing white swimwear and surrounded by women. He is...
September 02, 2019

Jude Law brings papal drama follow-up to Venice

Actor Kevin Hart attends The MOMS Mamarazzi event to celebrate
Comedian Kevin Hart hospitalized after car crash
WASHINGTON — Comedian and actor Kevin Hart was hospitalized on Sunday with major back injuries after his car crashed into a ditch, according to highway authorities.According to the California Highway Patrol report, Hart was riding in his 1970 Plymouth Barracuda — a powerful vintage car — with two other people in the wee hours of Sunday on Mulholland Highway in Los Angeles County.The driver, identified as Jared Black, lost control of the car and it rolled into a gully.Black, 28, and the third passenger, internet fitness model Rebecca Broxterman, were trapped inside. Hart went for help."Hart and Black sustained major back injuries as a result of this collision and were transported and treated at nearby hospitals," Highway Patrol said in the report.Broxterman, 31, sustained no...
September 02, 2019

Comedian Kevin Hart hospitalized after car crash

Director Nate Parker poses, left, with director Spike Lee during screening of the film
Controversial Black Lives Matter film hailed at Venice
VENICE, Italy — Controversial US director Nate Parker said on Monday that he hopes his powerful new film about police violence against black men will help save lives."American Skin" received an eight-minute standing ovation after it premiered at the Venice film festival, with Spike Lee — who traveled to Italy to support Parker — comparing its impact to "scoring a goal to win the World Cup or a home run at the bottom of the ninth in American parlance".The veteran maker of "Do The Right Thing" and "Malcolm X" had earlier declared that "I haven't been affected by a film like this... in a long, long time."The movie about a black Iraq war veteran, whose 14-year-old son is killed by police when they stop their car in a wealthy white...
September 02, 2019

Controversial Black Lives Matter film hailed at Venice

British actress Julie Andrews kisses her award after receiving a Golden Lion for lifetime achievement during a ceremony at the 76th Venice Film Festival at Venice, Italy, on Monday. — AFP
'Blessed' Julie Andrews gets lifetime achievement award in Venice
VENICE, Italy — Julie Andrews, the star of much-loved movies "Mary Poppins" and "The Sound of Music", said on Monday she was "blessed" to have had a long, illustrious cinema career as she was awarded a lifetime achievement award at the Venice Film Festival.The 83-year-old, who won an Oscar in 1965 for playing the strict but kindhearted nanny Mary Poppins, held up and kissed the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement award to an applauding audience."I consider myself so blessed to have spent a large part of my professional life in the cinema arts," she said."I still marvel at the fact that I was the lucky girl who was asked to play those wonderful roles."Andrews began her career as a child actress on the London West End before heading to...
September 02, 2019

'Blessed' Julie Andrews gets lifetime achievement award in Venice

 Timothee Chalamet gestures as he arrives for
'Terrified' Chalamet takes on Shakespeare with love Lily-Rose Depp
VENICE, Italy — Hollywood heartthrob Timothee Chalamet said on Monday he was "terrified" about playing Henry V in an epic new Shakespeare movie for the millennial generation.The Oscar-nominated 23-year-old takes on the Bard's most swashbuckling character, Prince Hal, opposite his real-life girlfriend Lily-Rose Depp as Catherine of Valois in "The King", which is premiering at the Venice film festival.Confessing that he was more used to "light sabres than swords", the American star said it was "terrifying for me" to take on the 15th-century English monarch who triumphs over the French in the mud and blood of the Battle of Agincourt."It was entirely new for me to do stunt work. It was medieval," said the star of "Call Me By Your...
September 02, 2019

'Terrified' Chalamet takes on Shakespeare with love Lily-Rose Depp

Fishermen show the
Magnet fishing: The explosive hobby cleaning up French rivers
LACROIX-SAINT-OUEN, FRANCE - Equipped with powerful magnets, history enthusiasts and environmentalists scour France's rivers, pulling out bits of scrap metal, bikes, scooters and the odd kitchen appliance.Sometimes, too, they fish other more unexpected objects out of the water, such as unexploded munitions.Magnet fishing has fast become a popular pastime, according to public safety officials, but French authorities have clamped down over fears that historical battle sites could still harbor active weapons.As in other countries, participants in France tie a super magnet to a rope and drop it into waterways, partly for treasure hunting, partly for environmental reasons.On the banks of the Oise river, in a town about 75 kilometers north of Paris, Owen Gressier, 20, and his three fellow...
August 31, 2019

Magnet fishing: The explosive hobby cleaning up French rivers

French-Polish director Roman Polanski poses during a photocall prior to the screening of his movie
Polanski film premieres in Venice as protest rages
VENICE, Italy — Roman Polanski's new film premieres in Venice on Friday after the defiant director lashed out at critics and as fury over his inclusion in the festival cast a shadow over the star-studded celebration of cinema.Polanski's "An Officer and a Spy", a historical thriller about the persecution of the French Jewish army officer Alfred Dreyfus, has been a lightning rod for criticism of the film festival, already embroiled in a second year of controversy over the place of female filmmakers.The 86-year-old director, who has been a fugitive from the US since he was convicted for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old in 1978, is not due to appear for the screening of the film on Friday evening.Venice festival organizers have been forced to defend the decision to...
August 30, 2019

Polanski film premieres in Venice as protest rages

Kevin O'Leary
Canadian 'Shark Tank' star involved in fatal boat crash
OTTAWA — Reality television star Kevin O'Leary has revealed he was on board a boat involved in a weekend crash on a Canadian lake that left two people dead.The Montreal-born businessman, one of five investors who decide how to spend their cash on ABC's Emmy Award-winning "Shark Tank," said in a statement on Wednesday his wife had been at the wheel when they were "in a tragic collision with another watercraft."Police confirmed that a large wake-boarding boat and a smaller ski boat had collided Saturday on Lake Joseph, around 220 miles (350 kilometers) north of Toronto, killing two people and seriously injuring three.Ontario police told AFP on Thursday that both boats left the scene to seek medical attention on shore."Right now, forensic teams are examing...
August 30, 2019

Canadian 'Shark Tank' star involved in fatal boat crash

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