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| Thousands pack Ellen DeGeneres' Sydney filming Posted: 23 Mar 2013 12:40 AM PDT SYDNEY: Hollywood star Russell Crowe and Australian footballers joined US talk show host Ellen DeGeneres in Sydney for the first filming of her popular programme Down Under Saturday. "I love you guys," DeGeneres told the 3,000 fans who packed an open-air Royal Botanic Garden set which looked out across the harbour to the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House. "I love this country. I'm moving here," she joked. DeGeneres arrived in Sydney with her Australian actor wife Portia de Rossi on Friday for the highly-anticipated six-day visit officials are hoping will boost tourism. Crowe, recruited to instruct DeGeneres in how to use a stockman's whip, produced a map of Australia and did his bit to deliver the tourism message. "Spending a small amount of time in Australia is not as good as spending a lot of time in Australia," the Oscar-winning actor said. Also on stage with the popular host were Australian Rules footballers from the Sydney Swans and rugby league star Greg Inglis, who plays for Crowe's South Sydney Rabbitohs. Hundreds of cheering fans greeted the American comedian when she touched down in Sydney airport, and thousands more queued up for hours for tickets to the taping which were available on a first-in, first-served basis. "It's all worth it. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity and we're just so excited that she's here," one woman said after waiting five hours for her tickets. Authorities hope the visit by the talk show queen to Sydney and Melbourne will showcase the cities to a broad American audience, with Destination New South Wales chief Sandra Chipchase saying the trip was a "golden" opportunity. DeGeneres spent part of Friday getting up close to koalas and giraffes at Taronga Zoo and her visit has even inspired a response from Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who is facing turbulent times in her Labor Party. "Welcome to Australia TheEllenShow. Hope you get to see as much as possible of our beautiful country. JG," Gillard tweeted.-AFP |
| Cannes opts for real-life romance for festival poster Posted: 22 Mar 2013 06:51 PM PDT PARIS: A 50-year-old photo of Hollywood love match Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward locked in a tender embrace will grace the poster of the Cannes Film Festival this year, organisers said Friday. The remastered black-and-white shot shows the couple lying in the foetal position in a yin and yang pattern, their bodies stretched out in opposite directions but their heads meeting in the middle, and kissing. They lie against a dynamic background of black-and-white rays shooting out from their central meeting point - and bold, red letters spell out the festival details. "To grace the poster for its 66th edition, the Festival de Cannes has chosen a couple who embody the spirit of cinema like no other: Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman," organisers said in a statement. The photograph was taken during the shooting of the 1963 Melville Shavelson film "A New Kind of Love" in which the couple played the romantic leads. "For the festival it is a chance both to pay tribute to the memory of Paul Newman, who passed away in 2008, and to mark the undying admiration for Joanne Woodward, his wife and most favoured co-star," they said. The couple was honoured in Cannes in 1958, the year of their marriage, when their first joint film "The Long Hot Summer" was selected for competition. As a director, Newman cast his wife in "The Effect of the Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds" and "The Glass Menagerie" - both of which were selected for the festival in 1973 and 1987. The original photo of the pair was remastered by the Bronx agency in Paris, which added a kinetic effect. "The poster evokes a luminous and tender image of the modern couple, intertwined in perfect balance at the heart of the dizzying whirlwind that is love," said the statement. "The vision of these two lovers caught in a vertiginous embrace, oblivious to the world around them, invites us to experience cinema with all the passion of an everlasting desire." Cannes, one of the world's top film festivals, opens on May 15 and will climax on May 26 with awards selected by a jury headed this year by Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg. Previous festival posters have included portraits of cinema muses, including a photo of Marilyn Monroe blowing out a birthday candle, as well as old, original movie illustrations and new designs. - AFP |
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