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Controversial or safe pick for Nobel literature prize?
AFP, Published on 05/10/2023
» STOCKHOLM - The Nobel Prize in Literature to be announced on Thursday could go to an overtly political author like a Kremlin critic, or crown a safer or lesser-known writer, experts say.
'American Fiction' wins top prize at Toronto film fest
AFP, Published on 18/09/2023
» TORONTO (CANADA) - "American Fiction" -- a satire about race, media and how white audiences consume Black culture -- sealed its place as an early Oscars frontrunner by winning the coveted top prize Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival.
French fan takes over final Fast and Furious films
AFP, Published on 12/05/2023
» PARIS: French director Louis Leterrier was a regular fan of "The Fast and the Furious" when the multi-billion-dollar franchise started more than two decades ago. Now he is finishing it.
Amazon tribe go behind the camera in Nat Geo film 'The Territory'
AFP, Published on 17/08/2022
» LOS ANGELES - When Covid-19 reached Brazil's Amazon, and an indigenous tribe sealed off its borders, director Alex Pritz found an innovative way to finish his documentary -- he handed the cameras over to the Uru-eu-wau-wau themselves.
Famed Hong Kong floating restaurant towed away after half a century
AFP, Published on 14/06/2022
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong's Jumbo Floating Restaurant, a famed but ageing tourist attraction that featured in multiple Cantonese and Hollywood films, was towed out of the city Tuesday after years of revitalisation efforts went nowhere.
Julie Andrews 'gobsmacked' by Hollywood award
AFP, Published on 10/06/2022
» Nearly 60 years after preaching virtues of patience and modesty as Mary Poppins and governess Maria, Julie Andrews declared herself "gobsmacked" to have her career honoured at a glitzy Hollywood gala Thursday.
Comedian Dave Chappelle attacked during LA show
AFP, Published on 04/05/2022
» LOS ANGELES: A man who attacked controversial comic Dave Chappelle on stage as he performed a live stand-up set in Los Angeles has been arrested and charged with assault, police said Wednesday.
Body composting takes root in US 'green' burial trend
AFP, Published on 21/03/2022
» KENT (UNITED STATES) - A woodpecker settled on a branch overhead as Cindy Armstrong stood near a grouping of trees, gazing at a patch of soil that contained bits of her son's composted remains.
Pop phenom, tabloid target: the fight to #FreeBritney
AFP, Published on 07/02/2021
» NEW YORK: The legal agreement barring Britney Spears from managing her own life and finances is now older than the pop star was when the public met her as an effervescent 12-year-old on the Disney Channel -- and controversy over who steers her life is starting to boil.
Giacometti sculpture in sealed bid auction - starting price $90m
AFP, Published on 26/10/2020
» NEW YORK - A sculpture by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti is being auctioned by Sotheby's with a reserve price of $90 million but the winning offer on Tuesday could remain secret as it is being sold by sealed bid.