Guerrilla warfare, terrorism and independent film-making have always been linked. And the link is being mobile, nimble, supple, and largely invisible. The mouse compared to the elephant. Nipping in. But above all, the link is that urge to deface, to scribble on the placid, sheeny surface of the accepted. Even the title, Cecil B Demented, is a kind of graffiti artist's scrawl, the type you long to see on the loo wall at a multiplex, done in school Biro by some kid in a moment...
A GENDER-bending Buddhist monk was defrocked for wearing women's clothes and growing breasts.Tony Lorroe shocked fellow holy men when he announced that he wanted to have a sex change op to be a woman full-time.He said: "The monks used to call me a nunk because they said I was a cross between a nun and a monk."But when I told them I wanted a sex change they told me to leave."The 22-year-old, who has grown breasts after taking...
Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, the British ski jumper who became the Winter Olympics favorite loser, flew home Tuesday saying he won't let failure go to his head.Arriving in London from Calgary with the rest of the British team, Edwards got off the plane last a position he became familiar with during the Olympics.Surrounded by police officers, he emerged from a crowd of media and flower-throwing fans to declare himself surprised at the attention he...
Here are capsules of movies showing at the Palm Beach International Film Festival, compiled from press information provided by the festival.ANDRE LE MAGNIFIQUE - (France) A washed-out Parisian actor agrees to lend his talents to a group of amateurs who are reopening the town's lavish theater after 30 years. ANTOINE ET ANTOINETTE - (France) A woman who works in a store and her typographer friend lose a winning lottery ticket in this 1947 film.BREAD AND TULIPS -...
I feel sorry for this bride...he'll use her then dump her, says blind date groom's ex Exclusive:truth on pair who met seconds before they wed A MAN who married a stranger yesterday in a radio stunt is a rat who dumped a young mum after sponging off her for months, The Sun can reveal.And jilted Lucy Checkley warned Greg Cordell's bride: "I'd sleep with one eye open if I was her. The man is a b******."He used...