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Capriles: Venezuelan station won't air live words
Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles is alleging that that new owners of the local Globovision television news channel, once steadfastly critical of the government, won't allow the station to broadcast his live speeches. Capriles said in Twitter messages on Sunday that the channel, which for years has served as the ...
Fort Smith graduate takes on Abercrombie & Fitch
When Southside High School graduate and former Fort Smith resident Greg Karber saw and heard what he calls "a social ill," he was appalled. So he grabbed his cell phone, hopped into his car and dove into film-making action. Last week, the 26-year-old Karber, now a Los Angeles resident, writer ...
AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT
69 years after Marine's death, WW2 Museum visitor sees his diary note: Return diary to her NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Before Cpl. Thomas "Cotton" Jones was killed by a Japanese sniper in the South Pacific in 1944, he wrote what he called his "last life request" to anyone who might ...
'Blue is the Warmest Color' is Cannes' Palme d'Or
The tender, sensual lesbian romance "Blue is the Warmest Color: The Life of Adele" won the hearts of the 66th Cannes Film Festival, taking its top honor, the Palme d'Or. The jury, headed by Steven Spielberg, took the unusual move of awarding the Palme not just to Tunisian-born director Abdellatif ...
Roger Clemens still dogged by NY steroids case
Despite Roger Clemens' victory last year in his perjury case, a defamation lawsuit filed against the former Yankees ace more than four years ago in federal court in Brooklyn is threatening to keep alive allegations that he used steroids and cheated on his wife. A magistrate judge in the civil ...
Fairbanks experiencing ammunition shortage
It's common knowledge among frequent customers that Tuesdays are ammo days at Sportsman's Warehouse in Fairbanks. Ammunition shipments usually arrive on Tuesdays at the Johansen Expressway store. Popular calibers, such as .22 and .308, generally sell out in minutes despite a store-imposed limit of three small boxes or one large ...
THE RITE OF PASSAGE AT CANNES
c.2013 New York Times News Service CANNES, France — As he stood here after the premiere of his new movie, “The Immigrant,” James Gray smiled widely. It had been five years since he had been to the Cannes Film Festival with “Two Lovers,” which was also the last time he ...
'Zulu,' violent portrait of S. Africa, ends Cannes
Academy award-winner Forest Whitaker turns in a solid performance as a cop searching for the murderer of a white teenager in the movie "Zulu," a violent and often shocking portrayal of South African gang culture where traces of apartheid still linger. The film premiered at the close of the Cannes ...
Correction: France-Cannes Notebook story
In a May 24 Cannes Notebook item about jewelry at the Cannes Film Festival, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the Swavorski earrings Milla Jovovich wore cost $321,000. They cost $321. A corrected version of the story is below: Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival At the Cannes ...
Cannes: 'The Immigrant' stirs emotional response
James Gray's sincere melodrama "The Immigrant" has divided the Cannes Film Festival not for its politics or its audaciousness, but for its sentimentality. Gray's 1920s Ellis Island tale, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard, has been called the most divisive film at this year's Cannes, where it premiered in competition ...
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