Mariah Carey speaks about her husband & other: May 2008

Sunday, 25 May 2008

Two more candidates for Kelly jury emerge

No new jurors were selected in the R. Kelly case Wednesday, leaving the count at eight—four white and four black.

Candidate after candidate came in with reasons why they could not serve on the high-profile trial. Explanations included saying they would be unable to give Kelly a fair trial because they have teenage daughters or have pressing duties at work.

Two men appear likely to make the panel, however: a recent college graduate and a man vaguely familiar with the singer's career. Both avoided grillings from prosecutors and defense attorneys with middle-of-the-road answers to questions about the justice system and their personal feelings about Kelly. Both are white.

The recent college graduate has previous convictions for marijuana possession and underage drinking, according to pool reports. He said he was too young to remember the O.J. Simpson trial, but he paid attention to other celebrity cases such as NFL star Michael Vick's dogfighting trial.

The other possible juror said he knew a little about Kelly, who has pleaded not guilty to child pornography charges stemming from a sexually explicit videotape authorities say he made with a girl as young as 14. The man said he saw a censored portion of the video on television, but he could be a fair juror.

Among those dismissed Wednesday were a man who considered Kelly a pedophile and a woman who described the Grammy winner as "not very smart."

Kelly, who rarely appears to pay attention to the questioning, looked up and cast a wounded glance toward the woman. It's the most emotion he has shown since jury selection began.

"Anyone who would become accused or be in that position of doing that supposedly with a child isn't very smart," she said. "He needs help."

sstclair@tribune.com

Thursday, 22 May 2008

Cannes pits Hollywood against obscure arthouse

John Griffith Chaney (Reuters) - Hollywood legends and hide arthouse directors descend on Cannes from Wednesday for the world's biggest moving-picture show fete that combines edgy movie theater with A-list celebrities, glitzy parties and frenetic deal-making.

Clint Eastwood is in the briny competition with "Changeling", starring Angelina Jolie, indentation him against, among others, Kornel Mundruczo of Hungary in the sort of David-and-Goliath contest on which Cannes thrives.

Out of competition, Steven Steven Spielberg and St. George Lucas volition be on the famed redness carpet in the palm-lined seafront township with the latest Indiana John Paul Jones adventure featuring George Harrison Ford and Cate Blanchett.

Woody Allen Stewart Konigsberg likewise presents "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" starring Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson and Javier Bardem.

The 61st variant of the super-charged 12-day picture marathon has a strong South American flavour, with two Argentinian and two Brazilian films in the briny competition lineup.

From Genus Argentina comes Pablo Trapero's prison drama "Leonera" and thriller "The Headless Woman" by Lucrecia Martel, and Brazil has Walter Salles's "Contrast of Passage" and "Blindness", directed by Fernando Meirelles of "Metropolis of God" celebrity.

"I think it reflects what citizenry possess been talking about, and that is the re-emergence of quality celluloid throughout Latin America, including United Mexican States, Genus Argentina and Brazil nut," said Jay Weissberg, Rome-based critic for swap issue Variety.

U.S. manager Steven Soderbergh besides presents "Che", his two-part, four-and-a-half-hour epic on Argentine revolutionary Che Ernesto Guevara, with Benicio del Toro in the title character.

Saturday, 10 May 2008

Kutcher to play serial womaniser

Ashton Kutcher is to play a serial womanizer in a fresh sex comedy called 'Spread'.
Change reports that the cinema besides stars Jennifer Jason Vivien Leigh as a thwarted lover.
Kutcher's company Katalyst is producing the new film, which will be directed by 'Hallam Foe', 'Asylum' and 'Young Adam' director David Mackenzie.
Shot on 'Spread' begins in Los Angeles by and by this month.

Tri Yann

Thursday, 8 May 2008

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Tunstall's birth mum not invited to wedding

KT Tunstall has revealed that she won't be inviting her birth mother to her wedding.
The Scottish star topology was adopted at 18 days old by Rosemarie and David Tunstall after being given up by Carol-Ann Bobby Orr.
She told the Daily Record that her parents and her nascence mother have non met, saying: "My birth mum entirely understands and she's great around it as ar my parents."
She continued: "But I've spent 32 years with my fellowship and I've spent seven-spot long time real, real slow acquiring to know my biological mother so patently my family is the antecedency. It's very difficult only my nativity mother completely understands that."
Tunstall will wed Gospel According to Luke Bullen, her band's drummer, in a Highland wedding afterwards this year, later on he proposed on Christmastime Clarence Shepard Day Jr..
The couple cause pencilled in September or early Oct just haven't set a date because they don't require to miss playing any festivals.
She said: "Evidently we are very, very excited about acquiring married. Merely we don't want to be standing expression 'I do' patch we could have been somewhere playing on level. Totally the festivals are start to confirm, so we'll work it out soon."

Ravi Shankar, Yehudi Menuhin

Milky Way to close in '09

Less than a workweek afterward being featured on “Chronicle” as a youthful terminus for inexpensive amusement, the Milky Way Waiting room and Lanes announced it will close in Borderland 2009.
The owners of the popular Milky Way and Bella Luna eating house, 403-405 Center St.,
Jamaica Field, boldness a monthly rip increase of roughly 85 percentage: from $13,000 to $24,000. A deal was struck late last week betwixt the Milky Way and Bella Luna owners and the building’s owner to keep the space open six-spot months later on the lease expires in Aug.

“We’d have to charge $60 for a pizza pie or $10 for a beer,” said Milky Direction co-owner Kathleen Mainzer. “It’s simply non feasible.”
Patch the Milky Way will shut, Bella Luna is relocating to a more remote spot in JP: the Brewery Complex on Armoury Street, the site of the SAM Adams home base.
“The Brewery is a great construction,” Mainzer said of the distance that as well houses a dance studio, a fitness center and a few offices for not-for-profit groups. “It’s a great hive of activity and the great unwashed. The neighbors we radius to are excited we’re delivery a positive night