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Second jewellery heist reported at Cannes film fest
Fri, 24 May 2013 16:52:38 -0400
src="http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/photo_story/thumb_small/5ab1c8552bb98cff.jpg" /> CANNES - A second suspected jewellery heist was reported at the Cannes Film Festival, with a single necklace by Swiss jeweller De Grisogono worth nearly $2.6 million reported missing. In the case of the first gem loot at the Cannes Film Festival, thieves literally tore out a safe filled with roughly $1 million-worth of jewels from a hotel room. The second time around the event took place at ...
Psys look-alike dupes stars at Cannes
Fri, 24 May 2013 07:40:02 -0400
A look alike of the Korean star 'Psy' had a gala time with top Hollywood celebrities at Cannes. The fake PSY partied with stars such as Naomie Harris and Adrien Brody at a party thrown by luxury jeweller- Chopard, the Sun reported. The man also tried his hands at DJ decks at an event hosted by a Russian oil-magnate and where big names including Trance beauty Rosario Dawson were present. A ...
Bidder pays $1.5M for space trip with Leonardo DiCaprio
Fri, 24 May 2013 06:30:02 -0400
One fan of Leonardo DiCaprio has paid 1.5 million dollars for a trip into space with the actor, during a charity auction at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the winning bidder will get the chance to travel into space orbit on a Virgin Galactic spaceship in a seat next to DiCaprio, Us magazine reported. A portion of the proceeds from the auction will go ...
Lacazette called up to join Frances squad
Fri, 24 May 2013 05:30:01 -0400
French coach Didier Deschamps picked Lyon's striker Alexandre Lacazette to replace Jeremy Menez from Paris Saint-Germain for friendly matches against Uruguay and Brazil. "Didier Deschamps endorsed (Menez) withdrawal after an exchange between the medical staff of the Parisian club and the France's team doctor, Franck Le Gall," the French Football Federation (FFF) said Thursday, reports Xinhua. ...
Its raining jewel theft in Cannes
Fri, 24 May 2013 05:20:01 -0400
A necklace worth a staggering 1.9M euros has been stolen from an exclusive French Riviera hotel, in the second such jewellery heist during this year's Cannes Film Festival. The expensive piece was stolen after a celebrity party at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in the resort town of Cap d'Antibes on Tuesday night, the BBC reported. Swiss jeweller De Grisogono said in a statement that the theft ...
One more French soldiers killed in Mali Elysee
Sat, 25 May 2013 01:06:41 -0400
PARIS, April 29 (Xinhua) -- A French soldier was killed on Monday in northern Mali, bringing the total death toll of French servicemen in the conflict-torn country to six since French forces started a military operation in January, the Elysee Palace said. French President Francois Hollande expressed in an online statement "his great sadness" for the death of one more French soldier in ...
Far-right figure commits suicide in Paris’ Notre Dame to protest gay marriage
Sat, 25 May 2013 00:43:08 -0400
Just after 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Dominique Venner, 78, a prominent figure in French far-right circles, shot himself dead in front of the altar in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.In a blog posted that day, headlined "The May 26 demo and Heidegger", referring to an upcoming anti-gay marriage protest, Venner exhorted demonstrators not to ignore "the reality of African and North African ...
Cheer up youre in Cannes This years movies have lots of things going for them but a cheery view of humanity is not one of them
Sat, 25 May 2013 00:33:16 -0400
You couldn't say Cannes film festival wasn't fun. Who wouldn't want to sit in the Lumire Theatre after a screening of Nicolas Winding Refn's flamboyantly violent Only God Forgives - of which I greatly approved - while one half of the auditorium cheers and the other boos? Normally you have to attend professional "wrestling" to encounter that level of audience ...
Marion Cotillard attends premiere of The Immigrant at Cannes
Sat, 25 May 2013 00:31:52 -0400
French actress Marion Cotillard (C) attends the premiere of "The Immigrant" with director James Gray (L) and actor Jeremy Renner at the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, May 24, 2013. (Xinhua/Zhou ...
Georges Moustaki French Singer and Songwriter Dies at 79
Sat, 25 May 2013 00:17:30 -0400
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Cannes Hollywood Gives Back at Star-Filled AmfAR Gala
Fri, 24 May 2013 23:07:32 -0400
In her latest Film Files column, Sharon Swart gets an auction scoop from Harvey Weinstein and catches up with Jessica Chastain, who says of the fundraiser's growth from last year: "I was hoping we'd double it, and we made even ...
French man Cedric A arrested on suspicion of chopping eating 95-yr-old grandma
Fri, 24 May 2013 22:29:41 -0400
French news site Le Point reported that the man, named Cedric A., had chopped his relative into pieces and spread most of them around her property and buried in the ...
Nadal complains about cold weather in Paris
Fri, 24 May 2013 22:18:37 -0400
Seven-time champion Fafael Nadal said that he is maintaining good shape for the this year's French Open but the only problem might be the cold weather."When I came back, I played well," said the Spaniard. "I had a very good few tournaments. I am here back another year and just be there is a very positive news for me. The only negative thing is this cold weather."Nadal, ...
World Briefing | Europe France Investigators Tie I.M.F. Chief to Fraud Inquiry Involving Sarkozy
Fri, 24 May 2013 21:12:23 -0400
Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, was made an ...
Golden era of French popular song closes with death of singer Georges Moustaki
Fri, 24 May 2013 21:01:30 -0400
Franco-Greek singer and songwriter Georges Moustaki plays the piano at his home in Paris in 2008. Photograph: Stephane de ...
Christine Lagarde not charged in embezzlement investigation
Fri, 24 May 2013 20:52:20 -0400
Christine Lagarde , the head of the International Monetary Fund, has not been charged after two days of questioning by French judges over alleged complicity in the embezzlement of state funds.But she has not been completely cleared in the investigation over her authorisation of a controversial out-of-court settlement for the maverick French businessman Bernard Tapie when she was finance minister ...
Cannes Sony Classics Nabs Jim Jarmuschs Only Lovers Left Alive
Fri, 24 May 2013 20:51:56 -0400
). "It would take a stake through the heart to keep Barker, Bernard and Leiner away from a good movie," said Jeremy Thomas about Sony Pictures Classics' ...
Bollywood hopes Cannes will can the ‘B-word’
Fri, 24 May 2013 20:51:17 -0400
Sealed: Indian star Aishwarya Rai arrives for the screening of 'Blood Ties' at the 66th international film festival in Cannes, on France's Mediterranean coast, on Monday. | ...
Cannes Dern a leading man again in ‘Nebraska’
Fri, 24 May 2013 20:03:22 -0400
From right, actors Bruce Dern, Angela McEwan, director Alexander Payne, June Squibb and Will Forte pose during a photo call for the film "Nebraska" at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Thursday, May 23, 2013. AP photo CANNES, France-- For the aging, gruff patriarch of his father-son road trip ';Nebraska,'; Alexander Payne tried to lure Gene ...
Serena Williams to have fun in fight for French Open title
Fri, 24 May 2013 20:02:32 -0400
French Open title. The clay courts of Roland Garros have witnessed some of the tougher moments in the American's career but after a year in which she has been utterly dominant, anything other than another title a fortnight tomorrow would go down as a surprise.It was here last year that Williams suffered her earliest grand slam defeat, a three-set loss to France's Virginie Razzano, when ...

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