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Italian Senate President Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati attends a tribute ceremony to Zeffirelli's coffin in Florence, Italy, Monday. Zeffirelli died on Saturday at the age of 96. — Reuters
Thousands gather to pay homage to Italian director Zeffirelli
Florence, Italy — Thousands of people lined up in central Florence Monday to pay their respects to Italian film-maker and opera director Franco Zeffirelli, who died at the weekend.Applause broke out as the hearse carrying his coffin arrived at the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence's city hall.The crowd broke into applause again when four pall-bearers carried it past the replica of Michaelangelo's Statue of David and inside the building. It will lie in state there for a day.Zeffirelli died on Saturday at the age of 96.His funeral will take place on Tuesday at 11:00 am (0900 GMT) at the city's Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral.Zeffirelli made his international reputation adapting classics to the screen, including many of Shakespeare's plays, attracting many major stars.Richard Burton...
June 17, 2019

Thousands gather to pay homage to Italian director Zeffirelli

A revolver believed to be the gun Dutch 19th century painter Vincent Van Gogh would have used to kill himself on 27 July 1890 is on public display at Paris' Drouot auction house before it goes under the hammer. — AFP
Gun 'Van Gogh killed himself with' to go under hammer
PARIS — The revolver with which Vincent van Gogh is believed to have shot himself is to go under the hammer Wednesday at a Paris auction house. Billed as "the most famous weapon in the history of art", the seven mm Lefaucheux revolver is expected to fetch up to 60,000 euros ($67,000). Van Gogh experts believe that he shot himself with the revolver near the village of Auvers-sur-Oise north of Paris, where he spent the last few months of his life in 1890.Discovered by a farmer in 1965 in the same field where the troubled Dutch painter is thought to have fatally wounded himself, the gun has already been exhibited at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. While Art Auction, who are selling the gun, say there is no way of being absolutely certain that it is the fatal weapon, tests...
June 17, 2019

Gun 'Van Gogh killed himself with' to go under hammer

In this file photo Australian actor Chris Hemsworth and US actress Tessa Thompson attend the
Latest 'Men in Black' leads box office but fails to wow critics
Los Angeles — "Men in Black: International" led North American box offices over the weekend, but the new sci-fi comedy was not as far into the black as Sony would have liked, taking in an estimated $28.5 million, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported. In this spinoff to the three earlier "Men in Black" installments, the roles of black-suited alien-fighters pass from their originators, Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, to the younger Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson.Liam Neeson and Emma Thompson also star. Critics liked the chemistry of the two leads but gave the movie a lukewarm rating of only 24 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Its box-office take for the three-day weekend fell short of "even the slimmest of studio expectations," website...
June 17, 2019

Latest 'Men in Black' leads box office but fails to wow critics

Double murder defendant O.J. Simpson, left, talks to attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr., during testimony by a Los Angeles Detective Ron Phillips in this Feb. 15, 1995 file photo. — AFP
Former football star turns to Twitter
WASHINGTON — Just days after the 25th anniversary of the gruesome double murder of which he was accused but acquitted, O.J. Simpson has opened a Twitter account with a vow to do "a little getting even.""Hey, Twitter world, this is yours truly," the former football star and actor says in a video that, for now, is his only post.Simpson lawyer Malcolm LaVergne confirmed to CNN that the account was authentic, as was the video, apparently filmed by Simpson on a smartphone in the yard of a Las Vegas residence.Simpson's Twitter account — @TheRealOJ32 — refers to the number he wore on his jersey as a star running back at the University of Southern California and then with the NFL's Buffalo Bills.As of 16 hours after its posting, the video had drawn 52,000...
June 16, 2019

Former football star turns to Twitter

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, look at ice creams before the fifth regular foreign ministers' meeting of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Dushanbe on Saturday. — AFP
'Good gifts': Putin presents Xi with birthday ice cream
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — Russian President Vladimir Putin presented his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping with a giant box of ice cream for his 66th birthday before a summit in Tajikistan on Saturday, the Kremlin said, in a sign of the pair's warm ties."Happy birthday, my best wishes... I am delighted to have a friend like you," Putin told Xi, according to the Kremlin website.The two leaders met in the Tajik capital Dushanbe for the fifth summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA), which brought together delegations from 27 countries.Xi last week made a three-day visit to Russia to visit Putin, whom he described as his "best friend", as the two countries seek to bolster ties amid shared tensions with the US."We came...
June 16, 2019

'Good gifts': Putin presents Xi with birthday ice cream

Babe Ruth
Record set as Babe Ruth jersey sells for $5.6 million
NEW YORK — A New York Yankees jersey worn by baseball legend Babe Ruth was sold at auction for a record-breaking $5.6 million, a statement said on Saturday.Hunt Auctions said the jersey, which dates from the 1928-1930 period of Ruth's career, went under the hammer for $5,640,000, making it the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia ever sold."The legacy and significance of Babe Ruth to the game of baseball and American popular culture is unmatched by any other figure in the history of this country," president of Hunt Auctions David Hunt said in a statement."While the record-setting prices attained today are certainly astonishing I am not surprised at all given the incredible materials and the mythical status the Babe holds in the history of this country."The...
June 16, 2019

Record set as Babe Ruth jersey sells for $5.6 million

OJ Simpson speaks in court prior to his sentencing as his attorneys Gabriel Grasso, left, and Yale Galanter listen at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, in this Dec. 4, 2008 file photo. — AFP
'Run O.J. Run': 25 years since the world's most famous police chase
LOS ANGELES, California — It was the car chase that brought a nation screeching to a halt.On June 17, 1994, a white Ford Bronco containing a fugitive O.J. Simpson led a convoy of police cars down southern California's freeways — and 95 million Americans couldn't take their eyes off it.Coverage of massive sporting events like the NBA finals and US Open was interrupted with footage of the chase, while Domino's Pizza reported record delivery orders from viewers unwilling to miss a single moment.Twenty-five years later that moment captured by hovering TV helicopters and breathless newsmen, and broadcast around the world, remains an obsession.But for one viewer, it held a particular fascination."We were all huddled around and watching, no one was breathing — we just stood...
June 16, 2019

'Run O.J. Run': 25 years since the world's most famous police chase

The Richard Rodgers Theatre is seen on June 6, 2019 located on 226 West 46th Street where
After conquering Broadway, 'Hamilton' eyes global tour
NEW YORK — After triumphing on Broadway, the lower 48 states and London's West End, "Hamilton" is eyeing its first non-English production as well as tours throughout Europe and Asia.The much-decorated musical, currently being staged nightly in London and New York as well as four other US cities, last month announced plans to launch in Sydney in early 2021 in a production expected to tour Australia before going to Asia, its producer said in an interview.The "Hamilton" team is also working with a German hip-hop artist and playwright to develop a German-language version of the work.The show, which is performed by a mostly non-white cast and mixes pulsating rap numbers with ballads and traditional musical numbers, has been credited with invigorating Broadway,...
June 16, 2019

After conquering Broadway, 'Hamilton' eyes global tour

Participants attend the YouTube 'Fanfest' in Jakarta, Indonesia, in this file photo. — Reuters
Indonesian YouTube stars get chance for university place
JAKARTA — An Indonesian university is offering would-be students a novel way to gain admission to the faculty — become a YouTube star first.Through a special admission scheme, the National Development University Veteran Jakarta (UPNVJ), is offering places to YouTubers who have a channel with at least 10,000 subscribers and have created original content that has been viewed more than 100,000 times.Those who meet the criteria will be further tested by having to create a new video of between three to five minutes duration.University places are highly competitive in Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country, with over 260 million people.Social media websites are also wildly popular across the archipelago, with research showing people spend an average of over three hours a day...
June 16, 2019

Indonesian YouTube stars get chance for university place

NEW YORK - MARCH 10:  Artist Jonas Mekas attends the
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas laid to rest in native Lithuania
VILNIUS — The ashes of Lithuanian-born American filmmaker Jonas Mekas were buried back in his home country on Sunday, months after his death in New York, public broadcaster LRT reported.In a private ceremony, his ashes were buried next to his parents at a cemetery in Semeniskiai, northeastern Lithuania, where he was born in 1922.Mekas was a key figure of US underground cinema and was widely regarded as the "godfather of avant-garde cinema".After being imprisoned in a labor camp in Germany during World War II, Mekas settled in New York in 1949, where he went on to become a pillar of independent film."He has always been deeply connected to Lithuania through the memory dimension in his films and his Lithuanian poetry," art critic Lolita Jablonskiene said.At the time of...
June 16, 2019

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas laid to rest in native Lithuania

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