http://www.mail.com/int/subjects/104-arts-entertainment.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/104-arts-entertainment.html http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2107090-glitzy-amfar-raises-25-aids.html CAP D'ANTIBES, France (AP) — With an apt rendition of "Goldfinger," singing legend Shirley Bassey roused celebrity revelers to dig deep into their pockets at the 20th amfAR gala in the Cap D'Antibes, helping to raise an estimated $25 million for AIDS research. The British-born singer was one of several performers including Duran Duran who sang at the gold... Fri, 24 May 2013 02:34:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2107090-glitzy-amfar-raises-25-aids.html 2013-05-24T02:34:09Z 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/2105030-west-bank-romance-prominent-omar.html CANNES, France (AP) — One of the more buzzed-about films at the Cannes Film Festival, "Omar," is set in the West Bank, and the Palestinian conflict is a key part of the plot. But the film's lead actor, Adam Bakri, says the location or political motif isn't that important. "The fact is that it is an international story, it happens in the West Bank but it d... Thu, 23 May 2013 19:28:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2105030-west-bank-romance-prominent-omar.html 2013-05-23T19:28:15Z 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/entertainment/celebrity/2096150-heard-cannes-film-festival.html CANNES, France (AP) — Associated Press journalists open their notebooks at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. CANNES GIVES EBERT THUMBS UP Film critics and festival-goers congregated on the Cannes beach to raise their thumbs to the late critic Roger Ebert. The tribute Thursday followed a panel discussion about Ebert's impact on film criticism. Before his deat... Thu, 23 May 2013 17:20:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/2096150-heard-cannes-film-festival.html 2013-05-23T17:20:42Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2105530-banned-iranian-director-rasoulof-coming-to-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, whose movies are banned in his country and who has been sentenced to jail by the Islamic regime there, is coming to Cannes for a screening of his latest film, publicists for the movie said Thursday. "Manuscripts Don't Burn" tells the story of an Iranian author secretly writing his memoirs — and au... Thu, 23 May 2013 17:17:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2105530-banned-iranian-director-rasoulof-coming-to-cannes.html 2013-05-23T17:17:04Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2105758-payne-road-with-nebraska-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — Shooting the Midwest in monochrome came naturally for Alexander Payne in his father-son road trip "Nebraska." Payne premiered his black-and-white follow-up to "The Descendants" on Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival, where the gentle tale drew largely enthusiastic reviews for both its warmth and its colorless cinematography. ... Thu, 23 May 2013 17:04:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2105758-payne-road-with-nebraska-cannes.html 2013-05-23T17:04:38Z 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/2105268-la-scala-scales-productions-to-crisis.html MILAN (AP) — La Scala has reduced the number of operas it will stage during the 2013-14 season due to Italy's economic crisis, the theater's general manager said Thursday. The program for next season announced by Stephane Lissner comprises 10 operas instead of the usual 13, and there will be just eight new productions among the 16 ballets and operas. Liss... Thu, 23 May 2013 16:43:56 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/music/2105268-la-scala-scales-productions-to-crisis.html 2013-05-23T16:43:56Z 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/lifestyle/2103598-robert-redford-es-un-nufrago-en-cannes.html CANNES, Francia (AP) — Robert Redford hace valer las acciones más que las palabras en el drama de un naufragio "All is Lost". No tiene otra opción. La historia del hombre contra la naturaleza en la forma de un marinero solitario a la deriva en el Océano Índico no tiene mucho diálogo, sólo unas cuantas líneas en off al comienzo y algunas groserías sentidas... Wed, 22 May 2013 19:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2103598-robert-redford-es-un-nufrago-en-cannes.html 2013-05-22T19:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2102760-redford-swept-shipwreck-saga-all-lost.html CANNES, France (AP) — Robert Redford makes actions speak louder than words in shipwreck drama "All Is Lost." He doesn't have much choice. A man-versus-nature tale about a lone sailor adrift on the Indian Ocean, J.C. Chandor's movie has no dialogue, just a few lines of voiceover at the start and a couple of heartfelt expletives. Redford... Wed, 22 May 2013 18:21:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2102760-redford-swept-shipwreck-saga-all-lost.html 2013-05-22T18:21:33Z 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/2102882-piers-morgan-writing-book-life-cnn.html NEW YORK (AP) — Piers Morgan is going behind the scenes. The host of CNN's "Piers Morgan Live" has a deal with Gallery Books for "Shooting Straight: Guns, Gays, God, and George Clooney." Gallery, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced Wednesday that the book is scheduled for October. Morgan, in a statement issued by Gallery, promise... Wed, 22 May 2013 14:48:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2102882-piers-morgan-writing-book-life-cnn.html 2013-05-22T14:48:35Z 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/entertainment/music/2102192-germany-celebrates-composer-wagners-200th.html BERLIN (AP) — Germany on Wednesday celebrated the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner, the 19th-century composer whose music has been hailed as sublime art at the height of Western culture even as he remains tainted by his visceral anti-Semitic views, which later found favor with the Nazis. Wagner's birthplace of Leipzig, the nearby city of Dresden — where h... Wed, 22 May 2013 10:43:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/music/2102192-germany-celebrates-composer-wagners-200th.html 2013-05-22T10:43:33Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1794922-10-things-to-wednesday.html Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Wednesday: 1. A RACE TO FIND SURVIVORS Rescuers search every damaged home at least once and continue efforts at a devastated elementary school in Oklahoma in the wake of a tornado that measured at the top of the scale. 2... Wed, 22 May 2013 03:40:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1794922-10-things-to-wednesday.html 2013-05-22T03:40:53Z 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/lifestyle/2100572-sorrentino-bruni-tedeschi-bring-italy-to-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — La dolce vita came to Cannes on Tuesday, thanks to a pair of films set in Italy exploring lives of affluent ennui. Paolo Sorrentino's "The Great Beauty" and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi's "A Castle in Italy" both feature wealthy characters whose lives have an emptiness at their center. Bruni Tedeschi — the only woman among the 20 directors... Tue, 21 May 2013 20:19:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2100572-sorrentino-bruni-tedeschi-bring-italy-to-cannes.html 2013-05-21T20:19:52Z 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