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US, Argentine films frontrunners for Venice's Golden Lion
AFP, Published on 10/09/2016
» VENICE - From a dazzling musical to a biting comedy, films from the US and Argentina are tipped as favourites to win this year's Golden Lion award at the Venice film festival, due to be announced Saturday.
Venice film festival sets up a Hollywood invasion
AFP, Published on 29/07/2016
» ROME - A battalion of Hollywood heavyweights will lead a US invasion of next month's Venice film festival, the organisers announced Thursday.
Catwalk calendar row overshadows Paris ready-to-wear shows
AFP, Published on 01/03/2016
» PARIS - The fashion circus hits Paris Tuesday as the women's autumn-winter ready-to-wear shows come to town, with the industry deeply divided over the catwalk calendar and three major houses still without designers.
'JFK' opera explores president just before the bullets
AFP, Published on 22/11/2015
» NEW YORK - Ever since John F. Kennedy died from an assassin's bullet, the indelible image has been the silent Zapruder film of the president's doomed motorcade.
US first lady in first Cambodia trip
AFP, Published on 20/03/2015
» SIEM REAP (CAMBODIA) - Michelle Obama flew into Cambodia late Friday becoming the first wife of a sitting US president to visit the country, part of a two-nation trip to highlight the importance of girls' education.
Dutch boffins recreate Whitney's death with scents and sounds
AFP, Published on 26/12/2014
» BREDA (NETHERLANDS) - Dutch scientists are recreating the deaths of some of the world's most famous personalities by reconstructing their last moments using scents and sounds.
Gucci brings Florentine craftsmanship to Thailand
B Magazine, Usnisa Sukhsvasti, Published on 25/05/2014
» Gucci recently launched its flagship store in Bangkok at the newly constructed Central Embassy. The two-level store features a design concept by creative director Frida Giannini that paves the way for Gucci’s 21st century contemporary look, which recalls the elegance and richness of the art deco era. Presiding at the grand opening of the store was the Italian ambassador, Francesco Saverio Nisio, who was joined by Natira Boonsri.
Reviving a golden age
B Magazine, Published on 25/05/2014
» In a quiet alcove of Phnom Penh’s National Museum, two young Cambodians, eyes wide with wonder, watch the grainy, fairytale images of a film shot in their quiet capital in the mid-1960s. They observe smartly dressed Khmer strolling down tree-lined, Parisian-style boulevards with gushing fountains, set to a background of classical Western music.
Hoffman's cause of death undetermined
AFP, Published on 06/02/2014
» The results of an autopsy of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's body were inconclusive, and further tests have been ordered, the medical examiner's office said Wednesday.
A gay first lady
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 20/01/2014
» People in every social, economic and political sphere share a fondness for rumours. True or not, they spread like wildfire. Men, women, children are fair game. Family, friends, colleagues, neighbours, acquaintances are embarrassed, reputations tarnished, careers ruined. The more they are denied, the more they are believed.