http://www.mail.com/int/subjects/100-celebrity.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/int/subjects/100-celebrity.html http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2096150-heard-cannes-film-festival.html CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. SWAROVSKI NOT WORRIED ABOUT CANNES JEWEL THEFTS There have been two high-profile jewelry thefts during the Cannes Film Festival, but team from Swarovski, which is providing baubles for stars to wear on the red carpet, isn't too worried about its inven... Fri, 24 May 2013 12:23:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2096150-heard-cannes-film-festival.html 2013-05-24T12:23:55Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2107090-glitzy-amfar-raises-25-million-to-space.html CAP D'ANTIBES, France (AP) — With an apt rendition of "Gold-finger," singing legend Shirley Bassey roused celebrity-revelers to dig deep into their pockets at the 20th amfAR gala in the Cap D'Antibes Thursday, helping to raise an estimated $25 million for AIDS research. The British-born singer was one of several performers including Duran Duran who sang a... Fri, 24 May 2013 09:21:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2107090-glitzy-amfar-raises-25-million-to-space.html 2013-05-24T09:21:02Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2107018-prince-edward-presents-edinburghs-awards-us.html NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Queen Elizabeth's youngest son, Prince Edward, has visited the U.S. to promote one of the British royal family's charities, the Duke of Edinburgh's Award. The prince presided over an awards ceremony Thursday at the Tennessee governor's mansion for the first batch of youth to participate in the leadership and character program. ... Fri, 24 May 2013 01:58:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2107018-prince-edward-presents-edinburghs-awards-us.html 2013-05-24T01:58:53Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2105292-jerry-lewis-repeats-distaste-female-comics.html CANNES, France (AP) — Ladies? Don't make him laugh. Asked who his favorite female comics were Thursday at a Cannes Film Festival press conference, Jerry Lewis listed Cary Grant and Burt Reynolds. He then added: "I don't have any." In 1998, Lewis famously said that watching women do comedy "sets me back a bit" and that he has trouble with the notion of wou... Thu, 23 May 2013 20:04:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2105292-jerry-lewis-repeats-distaste-female-comics.html 2013-05-23T20:04:36Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2105254-cannes-crime-2nd-jewel-theft-film-festival.html PARIS (AP) — Thieves outsmarted 80 security guards in an exclusive French Riviera hotel and made off with a necklace that creators say is worth a staggering 2 million euros ($2.6 million) — in the second such jewelry heist during this year's Cannes Film Festival. The De Grisogono jewelry house said Thursday that the necklace was stolen after a party for f... Thu, 23 May 2013 18:00:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2105254-cannes-crime-2nd-jewel-theft-film-festival.html 2013-05-23T18:00:59Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2105426-canada-businessmans-corruption-trial-cuba.html HAVANA (AP) — A Canadian businessman caught up in a corruption probe in Cuba apparently went on trial Thursday, nearly two years after he was detained and his import company, Tri-Star Caribbean, was shuttered. Sarkis Yacoubian arrived at an Interior Ministry courthouse in Havana in a black sedan with tinted windows, and was seen being escorted inside by t... Thu, 23 May 2013 16:53:39 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2105426-canada-businessmans-corruption-trial-cuba.html 2013-05-23T16:53:39Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/music/2105080-russian-court-denies-pussy-riots-alekhina-parole.html MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court denied parole on Thursday to a member of the Pussy Riot punk group. The ruling came despite letters that singers Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel and Patti Smith have sent, urging Russia's courts to free Maria Alekhina and the other Pussy Riot still in prison, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. In its ruling on Thursday... Thu, 23 May 2013 15:20:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/music/2105080-russian-court-denies-pussy-riots-alekhina-parole.html 2013-05-23T15:20:38Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2105194-sorrentino-serves-up-cinema-banquet-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — Paolo Sorrentino has a thing about food — appropriately enough, for the director of a sumptuous feast of a film, "The Great Beauty." The Italian auteur's Cannes Film Festival entry is a journey through Rome in the company of observant but aimless writer Jep Gambardella (actor Toni Servillo). Sorrentino's camera takes viewers through ... Thu, 23 May 2013 13:56:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2105194-sorrentino-serves-up-cinema-banquet-cannes.html 2013-05-23T13:56:52Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2104886-georges-moustaki-who-penned-piaf-dies.html PARIS (AP) — Georges Moustaki, an Egyptian-born composer, singer and poet who wrote songs for Edith Piaf and other French stars, has died at age 79. Marie-Ange Mirande of Moustaki's Paris-based production house said Thursday he died at his home in Nice overnight after a long illness. A memorial ceremony is planned Monday at the famed Pere Lachaise cemeter... Thu, 23 May 2013 10:55:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2104886-georges-moustaki-who-penned-piaf-dies.html 2013-05-23T10:55:57Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2103656-cannes-scott-thomas-glorious-dip-darkness.html CANNES, France (AP) — To convince Kristin Scott Thomas to play the bloodthirsty matriarch of "Only God Forgives," director Nicolas Winding Refn appealed to Scott Thomas — how else? — with the flattery of his own mother. "That's how he got me to do the film," Scott Thomas said in a beachside interview Wednesday. "He said, 'You're my mother's favorite actre... Wed, 22 May 2013 19:32:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2103656-cannes-scott-thomas-glorious-dip-darkness.html 2013-05-22T19:32:07Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/music/2103170-beatles-lyrics-headed-british-library.html LONDON (AP) — Shakespeare, the Magna Carta — and now some of John Lennon's finest lyrics. The British Library on Wednesday added substantially to its already formidable collection with handwritten lyrics to Beatles' classics "Strawberry Fields Forever", "She Said She Said" and "In My Life." Although these three songs are legally credit... Wed, 22 May 2013 17:24:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/music/2103170-beatles-lyrics-headed-british-library.html 2013-05-22T17:24:11Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2103110-cannes-james-franco-builds-bookish-filmography.html CANNES, France (AP) — James Franco's filmography is starting to look like a book shelf — and a very respectable one, at that. The 35-year-old American has already played poets Allen Ginsberg ("Howl") and Hart Crane ("The Broken Tower"). He recently finished directing an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's "Child of God" (having first flirted with doing McCart... Wed, 22 May 2013 16:11:45 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2103110-cannes-james-franco-builds-bookish-filmography.html 2013-05-22T16:11:45Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2102964-nyc-woman-probation-stalking-actress.html NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City woman has been sentenced to probation for stalking French actress Marion Cotillard on the Internet. Teresa Yuan was sentenced Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court. She pleaded guilty last year. Prosecutors said Yuan sent 504 emails and 120 webcam videos of herself to a Cotillard fan website in 2011. The 32-year-old Yuan is bei... Wed, 22 May 2013 15:34:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2102964-nyc-woman-probation-stalking-actress.html 2013-05-22T15:34:03Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2102352-monroes-photos-prague-exhibition-stolen.html PRAGUE (AP) — A publicist for an upcoming Marilyn Monroe exhibition in Prague says that photographs of the star have been stolen. Alice Titzova of the PR agency 2media says the photos, stolen late Monday, were to be on display starting May 30 at the Prague Castle. Titzova says mannequins and display cases which were part of the exhibition also disappeared... Wed, 22 May 2013 14:40:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2102352-monroes-photos-prague-exhibition-stolen.html 2013-05-22T14:40:25Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2102460-ryan-gosling-breaks-cannes-heart-misses-premiere.html CANNES, France (AP) — The Cannes Film Festival is missing one of its biggest stars of this year's festival: Ryan Gosling. The 32-year-old Canadian actor was unable to attend the premiere Wednesday of director Nicolas Winding Refn's film "Only God Forgives." Gosling stars in the Bangkok noir about a boxing club owner pressured by his mother to his avenge h... Wed, 22 May 2013 14:06:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2102460-ryan-gosling-breaks-cannes-heart-misses-premiere.html 2013-05-22T14:06:40Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2102562-canet-seeks-gritty-york-blood-ties.html CANNES, France (AP) — The problem with New York these days is there's just not enough litter. At least, that's French director Guillaume Canet's experience. He had to supply his own garbage to recreate the grubby streets of 1970s Brooklyn for his debut English-language feature "Blood Ties." "Every day," the director laughed during an interview at the Cann... Wed, 22 May 2013 12:06:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2102562-canet-seeks-gritty-york-blood-ties.html 2013-05-22T12:06:03Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2101496-toronto-mayor-avoids-questions-crack-video.html TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford continued to duck questions Tuesday about a video that purportedly shows him smoking crack cocaine despite calls by allies and rivals for further comment. The video has not been released publicly and there is no way to verify whether it is authentic. Reports Thursday night on the gossip website Gawker and in the Toron... Tue, 21 May 2013 23:24:56 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2101496-toronto-mayor-avoids-questions-crack-video.html 2013-05-21T23:24:56Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2101164-harry-potter-book-with-author-notes-sold-228k.html LONDON (AP) — For fans of the boy wizard, this could be the most coveted copy of all the "Harry Potter" books in the world. A first edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" that contains author J.K. Rowling's notes and original illustrations fetched 150,000 pounds ($228,000) at a London auction on Tuesday. Sotheby's s... Tue, 21 May 2013 21:24:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2101164-harry-potter-book-with-author-notes-sold-228k.html 2013-05-21T21:24:15Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2100722-ap-photos-fashion-captured-cannes-cameras.html Nicole Kidman is the chameleon of Cannes. As a judge at this year's Cannes International Film Festival and a fashion-world favorite, Kidman has proven her style savvy in a colorful and cheerful embroidered L'Wren Scott dress, a regal black Alexander McQueen, and a white-ground floral dress by Christian Dior Couture that seemed a seamless fit for this posh... Tue, 21 May 2013 18:31:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2100722-ap-photos-fashion-captured-cannes-cameras.html 2013-05-21T18:31:52Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2100534-toback-baldwin-eye-cannes-movie-making-underbelly.html CANNES, France (AP) — A phrase you will hear often at Cannes is: "Let me run the numbers." The commercial underbelly of the Cannes Film Festival is a nonstop frenzy of deal-making in luxury hotels along the Croisette promenade and aboard yachts moored offshore. Films are pitched with various ingredients — a director, a script, a few stars — as agents and ... Tue, 21 May 2013 17:33:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2100534-toback-baldwin-eye-cannes-movie-making-underbelly.html 2013-05-21T17:33:15Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2099830-safrican-court-acquits-brother-oscar-pistorius.html JOHANNESBURG (AP) — One Pistorius brother is free of charges — acquitted Tuesday of culpable homicide in the death of a woman in a road accident. The famous younger brother, Olympian double-amputee Oscar Pistorius, still must face his day in court for shooting and killing his girlfriend. Carl Pistorius cried tears of relief Tuesday as a magistrate acquitt... Tue, 21 May 2013 16:57:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2099830-safrican-court-acquits-brother-oscar-pistorius.html 2013-05-21T16:57:12Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2099518-justin-biebers-monkey-german-property.html BERLIN (AP) — Justin Bieber's pet monkey is no longer his. The capuchin monkey named Mally was seized by German customs on March 28 when the 19-year-old Canadian pop star failed to produce the required vaccination and import papers after landing in Munich for a European tour. Authorities issued an order Tuesday transferring ownership o... Tue, 21 May 2013 16:01:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2099518-justin-biebers-monkey-german-property.html 2013-05-21T16:01:53Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2100258-prince-william-joins-father-conservation-plea.html LONDON (AP) — Britain's Prince William has joined his father Prince Charles in urging global action to tackle the illegal poaching of wild animals. William told a conservation conference at London's St. James's Palace that he is calling on his charity, the Royal Foundation, to engage young people in the cause. The conference brings together policy makers ... Tue, 21 May 2013 15:53:44 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2100258-prince-william-joins-father-conservation-plea.html 2013-05-21T15:53:44Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2100048-depardieu-to-play-chechen-man-seeking-revenge.html GROZNY, Russia (AP) — French actor Gerard Depardieu will star in a drama about a Chechen man who seeks revenge for the killing of his son. Chechnya, a southern Russian province, has been in the spotlight since it emerged that the suspects in April's Boston marathon bombing are ethnic Chechens. The predominantly Muslim province was devastated by two separa... Tue, 21 May 2013 15:19:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2100048-depardieu-to-play-chechen-man-seeking-revenge.html 2013-05-21T15:19:05Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2099778-ari-folman-animates-robin-wright-the-congress.html CANNES, France (AP) — Hollywood is hell. That's an idea to set tongues wagging at the Cannes Film Festival, and it's the distinct impression left by Israeli director Ari Folman's head-spinning part-animated feature "The Congress." Fittingly, Cannes provided the inspiration for the director's dystopian vision of the entertainment business, which stars actr... Tue, 21 May 2013 12:06:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2099778-ari-folman-animates-robin-wright-the-congress.html 2013-05-21T12:06:25Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2097972-annotated-harry-potter-1st-edition-auction.html LONDON (AP) — A first edition copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" that contains author J.K. Rowling's notes and original illustrations is going on sale at a charity auction. The personal annotations from the best-selling author included comments on the process of writing and a section from an early draft of the novel. They also included a n... Mon, 20 May 2013 17:50:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2097972-annotated-harry-potter-1st-edition-auction.html 2013-05-20T17:50:36Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2098150-cannes-rolls-red-carpet-indian-movies.html CANNES, France (AP) — Indian cinema is being feted in Cannes on its 100th birthday. But amid the celebrations, the B-word — "Bollywood" — remains controversial. The French film festival has rolled out the red carpet for Indian cinema this year, with events including a gala dinner and screening Sunday of "Bombay Talkies," a portmanteau movie with four dire... Mon, 20 May 2013 16:34:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2098150-cannes-rolls-red-carpet-indian-movies.html 2013-05-20T16:34:58Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2096106-coens-folk-revival-llewyn-serenades-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — The Coen brothers' resurrection of the pre-Dylan folk scene in Greenwich Village serenaded Cannes with its period music and melancholy tale of a self-destructive, feline-toting musician. "Inside Llewyn Davis" was met rapturously at the Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered Sunday night. Joel and Ethan Coen said their primary inter... Sun, 19 May 2013 17:57:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2096106-coens-folk-revival-llewyn-serenades-cannes.html 2013-05-19T17:57:04Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2096072-devilish-dutch-drama-borgman-debuts-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — There's something nasty lurking in the woods — and inside the characters' heads — in darkly comic Cannes Film Festival entry "Borgman." In Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam's supernaturally-tinged psychological drama, a mysterious interloper emerges from a forest and knocks on the door of a wealthy family's modernist mansion. Borgman... Sun, 19 May 2013 13:13:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2096072-devilish-dutch-drama-borgman-debuts-cannes.html 2013-05-19T13:13:58Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2096060-dior-presents-cruise-fashions-amid-stars-monaco.html MONACO (AP) — The glittering star power of Cannes migrated up the coast to Monaco for front-row seats at Dior's colorful, sexy cruise fashion show. With the Mediterranean Sea the picturesque backdrop, Dior showcased its 2014 collection on Saturday night. It was a wet, cold and generally miserable outside the white stage, but Raf Simons' designs provided t... Sun, 19 May 2013 12:40:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2096060-dior-presents-cruise-fashions-amid-stars-monaco.html 2013-05-19T12:40:42Z