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GEMINI (21 May-21 June) You are an extremely quick and intelligent thinker. People like you because you are a bisexual. However, you are inclined to expect too much for too little. This means that you are cheap. Geminis are also known for committing incest. TODAY: Stick to your guns, no matter what: no film can be worth as much as the sales agent is asking. And if all else fails, ask them to take you to dinner again. Who knows what might happen?
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ON THIS DAY, 11 MAY: …the following people were born: Natasha Richardson (1963); Joao Botelho (1949); Doug McClure (1938); Mort Sahl (1927); Phil Silvers (1912); Salvador Dali (1904) …the following people died: Lex Barker (1973); Grigori Kozintsev (1973); Jean Adair (1953) …and the following movies were released: M (Germany, 1931); Gaslight (USA, 1944); La reine Margot (France, 1994); De vliegende Hollander (Netherlands, 1995).
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Big noises in Benelux Given the quality of music emanating from lifts in Cannes, it's appropriate that our thoughts tonight will be on the Eurovision Song Contest, the celebration of all that is finest in European culture. Norway (aka zero points) hosts this year's event, which will be keenly watched by at least two notable Cannes attendees, both big in Benelux - Fortissimo topper Wouter Barendrecht and Moving Pictures' own Christian De Schutter. To anticipate tonight's excitement, the two musical connoisseurs offer readers their top tunes:
Christian De Schutter's Top 10 Belgian Eurosong Entries 1 Judie et Co (Pierre Rapsat) 2 Gelukkig zijn (Ann Christy) 3 J'aime la vie (Sandra Kim) 4 Goeiemorgen-morgen (Nicole en Hugo) 5 L'amour, ça fait chanter… (Jean Zegers) 6 A million in 1-2-3 (Dream Express) 7 Ma cedonienne (Philippe Lafontaine) 8 Door de wind (Ingeborg) 9 Neurovision (Telex) 10 Geef het op (Clouseau)
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Wouter Barendrecht's All-Time Top 10 Eurovision songs 1 Si la vie est cadeau (Corinne Hermes, Luxembourg) 2 No no l'eta (Gigiola Cinquetti, Italy) 3 L'oiseau et l'enfant (Marie Myriam, France) 4 Waar is de zon (Willeke Alberti, Netherlands) 5 Nostalgija (Magazin & Lidija, Croatia) 6 Tom Pilibi a deux chateaux (Jacqueline Boyer, France) 7 Merci cherie (Udo Jürgens, Austria) 8 Hullu Yö (Kaya, Finland) 9 Anixi (Sophia Vossou, Greece) 10 C'est le dernier qui a parlé qui a raison (Amina, France) But the real Eurovision star in our midst is Haim Saban, president of Saban and the celebrated composer of a number of Israel's Eurovision Song Contest entries…
A spoof of the movie business, partially filmed during last year's festival, has its international premiere in the market on Monday. Described as the Spinal Tap version of The Player, Cannes Man (pictured right) is the story of a fictitious producer, Sy Lerner, who attempts to turn an unknown LA taxi driver into an overnight sensation. Starring Seymour Cassel, Francesco Quinn and Rebecca Broussard, it also features special appearances from real-life movie stars Johnny Depp, Dennis Hopper and Jim Jarmusch, among others. Vine International Pictures has acquired all foreign rights…
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UK gypsy Director Alexander Sahla managed where others have failed and charmed top British critics Barry Norman, Geoff Andrew and Derek Malcolm into a screening of his 11-minute short Lapin in the world's smallest cinema last Friday. The programme of one minuscule support, a couple of adverts and the main feature runs almost 20 minutes, four times daily, and with this heavyweight audience the eight-seater cinema was nearly half full. The cinema is a converted caravan nestling alongside the European Pavilion, showcasing British short films. For the record, Barry Norman found the experience "excellent", Geoff Andrew was "caught up in it" and Derek Malcolm said he had "never seen anything like it".
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Doggy style Cannes is a doggy town. We all know about the town's love affair with poodles, but this year's festival sees our four-legged friends becoming film stars. Finnish producer Klaus Heydemann managed to get one of his terriers, Pietari, into Aki Kaurismaki's Kauas pilvet karkaavat (Drifting Clouds), screening In Competition - and according to the director, if he had known he was going to be so good he would have written him some lines, too. But another dog lover, US producer Saul Zaentz (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus), ran into big problems when casting one of his films with a considerable canine role. "My own dog did a beautiful job for Milos Forman in Amadeus," he says, "but Milos cut out all his scenes and he has refused to work for me ever since."
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