| Stars line up for Rome film fest
Dozens of the world's most popular movie stars plan to travel to Italy next month for the second annual Rome Cinema Festival.
Slated to appear during the eight-day film series are Sophia Loren, Cate Blanchett, Keira Knightley, Halle Berry, Monica Bellucci, Sharon Stone, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise and Sean Penn, the Italian news agency, ANSA, reported Friday.
The festival is scheduled to run from Oct. 19-27 and will feature screenings of movies from 40 different countries, including: "Elizabeth: The Golden Age," "El Pasado," "Juno," "Lions for Lambs," "Before The Devil Knows You are Dead," "Silk," "Reservation Road," "Mongol," "Things We Lost in the Fire," "Le Deuxieme Souffle" and "Youth Without Youth."
Fourteen of the movies will compete for the top Marcus Aurelius prize.
Clive Owen lies to wife
Actor Clive Owen found a way to stop his wife from watching an on-screen romp with Monica Bellucci — by telling her the movie was just ‘too violent'.
The Brit actor and Bellucci have a racy sex scene in the new flick Shoot Em Up. Owen said that it is embarrassing for him to show such a scene to his wife. So, he told his wife Sarah-Jane Fenton that the film is not for her, and it won't work for her. “You don't show a scene like that to the wife. I was like, ‘You won't like this one, babe. It won't work for you. Honestly. Er, way too violent,'" said Owen. .
Clive Owen tricked wife into not seeing his racy sex scene!
Washington, Sept 27 (ANI): Actor Clive Owen found a way to stop his wife from watching an onscreen romp with Monica Bellucci - by telling her the movie was just 'too violent'. The Brit actor and Bellucci have a racy sex scene in the new flick 'Shoot Em Up'. Owen said that it is embarrassing for one to show such a scene to his wife. So, he told his wife Sarah-Jane Fenton that the film is not for her, and it won't work for her. "You don't show a scene like that to the wife. I was like, 'You won't like this one, babe. It won't work for you. Honestly. Er, way too violent,'" Contactmusic quoted Owen, as saying. (ANI)
Live, eat, breathe movies? Share your knowledge on Yahoo! India Answers. Click here .
Almanac
On Sept. 30, 1846, Boston dentist William Morton used ether as an anesthetic for the first time as he extracted an ulcerated tooth from merchant Eben Frost. On this date In 1946, an international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes. In 1955, actor James Dean, 24, was killed in a two-car collision near Cholame, Calif. In 1962, black student James Meredith was escorted by federal marshals to the campus of the University of Mississippi, where he enrolled for classes the next day. Today's birthdays Actress Deborah Kerr, 86; author Elie Wiesel, 79; actress Angie Dickinson, 76; singer Cissy Houston, 74; singer Johnny Mathis, 72; singer Marilyn McCoo, 64; actor Barry Williams, 53; actor Vondie Curtis-Hall, 51; actress Fran Drescher, 50; country singer Marty Stuart, 49; actress Debrah Farentino, 48; actress Crystal Bernard, 46; actor Eric Stoltz, 46; country singer Eddie Montgomery (Montgomery Gentry), 44; rock singer Trey Anastasio, 43; rock musician Robby Takac (Goo Goo Dolls), 43; actress Andrea Roth ("Rescue Me"), 40; actress Monica Bellucci, 39; actress Jenna Elfman, 36; actor Ashley Hamilton, 33; tennis player Martina Hingis, 27; actress Lacey Chabert, 25; actor Kieran Culkin, 25; singer-rapper T-Pain, 23.
Many stars to shine at Rome film festival
Many world famous film stars including Sophia Loren, Sharon Stone and Tom Cruise will light up this year's second edition of the Rome Cinema Festival, organizers said Thursday.
Among the starts are also Cate Blanchett, Keira Knightley, Halle Berry, Monica Bellucci, Robert Redford and Sean Penn.
Blanchett will be the first to hit the red carpet on Oct. 19 in a reprise of her acclaimed 1998 Elizabeth I portrayal in visionary Indian director Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
Loren will bring the curtain down on Oct. 27 as she receives a career achievement award, Italian News Agency ANSA said on Thursday.
In between, an array of would-be blockbusters and more arty fare from 40 countries will bid to draw at least as many viewers as the half million spectators the inaugural edition attracted.
|
