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Hollywood bank thriller opens Berlin fest
BERLIN, Feb 5, 2009 (AFP) - The 59th Berlin Film Festival opened Thursday with the topical thriller "The International", starring Clive Owen and Naomi Watts as crusaders against a corrupt banking conglomerate.
Nations:Turkey Brazil People:Stephen Frears Tilda Swinton Naomi Watts Martin Scorsese Clive Owen Steve Martin Activities:2009 Berlin Film Festival Holocaust
2009-02-05
Prize-winning 'Rabbit' writer John Updike dies
NEW YORK - John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died Tuesday at age 76. Updike, best known for his four "Rabbit" novels, died of lung cancer at a hospice near his home in Beverly Farms, Mass., according to his longtime publisher, Alfred A. Knopf.
People:John Updike Barack Obama Susan Sarandon Michelle Pfeiffer Jack Nicholson
2009-01-27
Hollywood stars, cinema veterans due at Berlin festival
BERLIN (AFP) - New movies starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Tommy Lee Jones and Demi Moore have been added to the line-up at next month's 59th Berlin Film Festival, organisers said Thursday.
People:Stephen Frears Naomi Watts Clive Owen John Goodman Peter Sarsgaard Judi Dench Activities:2009 Berlin Film Festival
2009-01-15
Madonna: An unlikely inspiration for 50-plus set
NEW YORK - Sure, Madonna may have scandalized the Vatican and shocked nearly every parent in America at some point during her long and provocative career full of shrewd image transformations.
People:Candace Bushnell Ellen DeGeneres Alec Baldwin Kevin Bacon Annette Bening Michelle Pfeiffer
2008-08-16
'Hairspray' brushes aside rivals in London
"Hairspray", a musical about a fat teenager obsessed with dancing, has beaten box office records in London -- and is now in line for an unprecedented 11 gongs at Britain's top theatre awards Sunday.
Nations:U.K. People:Neil Simon Michelle Pfeiffer John Travolta
2008-03-07
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