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Liz Smith Presents: Celebrity Culture, Part One | wowOwow

Our Gossip Girl sits down with filmmaker Hart Perry to talk about the history and evolution of celeb culture and gossip … and shares the highlights with wowOwow. Read on for Liz Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, the Kennedys and more. ^{link »}

World Health Organization says Japan, San Marino top life expectancy league - Archive

In a recent released report according to World Health Statistics 2009, issued by the World Health Organization.
The report shows that children younger than 5 account for nearly 20% of the world's deaths, and that child mortality is a major reason for the wide range in life expectancy among countries. ^{link »}

Actress Lucy Gordon kills herself: agent - Yahoo! Canada News

Actor Lucy Gordon, an up-and-coming talent who played a role in Spider-Man 3 and will soon appear as Jane Birkin in a Serge Gainsbourg biopic, has killed herself in Paris, her agent said ^{link »}

Festival de Cannes - Du 13 au 24 mai 2009

Six of the 20 films competing for the top prize at this year's fest are from Asian filmmakers ^{link »}

"Spring Fever," by China's Lou Ye; vampire morality tale "Thirst" by South Korea's Park Chan-wook; and revenge thriller "Vengeance" by Hong Kong's Johnnie To. Other Asian films competing for the prize are graphic crime shocker "Kinatay" by Brillante Mendoza of the Philippines, and "Visage," the story of a Taiwanese director trying to make a movie in Paris, by Taiwan's Tsai Ming-Liang. Taiwan-born Ang Lee, who brought "The Ice Storm" to Cannes in 1997, is back with U.S.-set hippie homage "Taking Woodstock." ^{link »}

For more about Asian films market: http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/readResonnances/56648.html ^{link »}

The Reality of a Pilot's Life Defies a Glamorous Stereotype - NYTimes.com

many regional pilots, paid entry-level wages that are sometimes no better than a job at McDonald's, can not afford even a crash pad. ^{link »}

Unemployment: The Circle of No Life [PIC]

Erin Hanson sums up your life (whether you realize it or not) with “The Circle of No Life.” People who can create awesome things like this shouldn't be unemployed. And that is all. ^{link »}

Iranian, Chinese directors defy bans to bring films to Cannes

China's Lou Ye and Iran's Bahman Ghobadi are both at the festival with movies made undercover after they were barred from working by the authorities ^{link »}

Both directors tackle subjects that make officials at home uneasy - gay relationships in Lou's "Spring Fever," and Tehran's underground music scene in Ghobadi's "No One Knows About Persian Cats." ^{link »}

Film festival lifts off with magical Up

T his year's panel, led by French actor Isabelle Huppert and including U.S. director James Gray and actor Robin Wright Penn (there are no Canucks this year), seems more comprised of politicians than film adjudicators. "The world `judge' to me is so negative," said Wright Penn, the estranged wife of actor Sean Penn, last year's jury president. ^{link »}

about UP: By tying thousands of balloon to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Right after lifting off, however, he learns he isn't alone on his journey, since Russell, a wilderness explorer 70 years his junior, has inadvertently become a stowaway on the trip. ^{link »}

The Canadian Press: 'The Cove' wins audience award at Hot Docs film festival

The celebrated documentary "The Cove" has claimed the Hot Docs Audience Award. The American-made film, which also won the audience award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, follows dolphin trainer Richard O'Barry and his team of activists as they travel to Japan to shed light on that country's dolphin hunt. ^{link »}

Cannes film fest kicks off with 'Up' - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety

The opening ceremony included a song from Bryan Ferry and comments by French thesp Edouard Baer, jury prexy Isabelle Huppert and Charles Aznavour, who lends his voice to the French version of "Up." ^{link »}

The New York Times in 3 decade

NYT 31 years from now, very boring or mechanical! ^{link »}

Forbidden love

Genetic sexual attraction, as it's called, is a little known consequence of reunions with adoptees and their biological family members, where attraction is felt and sometimes acted upon. It has been known to happen between mothers and sons, fathers and daughters, uncles and nieces, and even same-sex relatives. ^{link »}

Dr. Maurice Greenberg looked at 40 cases and concluded the sexual attraction was a normal response to an extremely unusual situation of blood relatives meeting as strangers. ^{link »}